Ruffino SpA was established in Naples by Salvatore Ruffino, who had been the Italian distributor of Triumph cars through his company CESAC SpA. In the late 1950s he proposed a special-bodied version of the Triumph TR3 styled to Italian tastes; after rejecting an initial attempt by Zagato, he commissioned Michelotti, who designed a coupé named the Italia 2000, shown as a prototype at the 1958 Turin Motor Show. Ruffino founded…
