From correspondence that I carried on very recently with the automobile
historian Dr. Stefan Dierkes appeared, that Tom Tjaarda for the benefit of a scientific
archiving of his immense amount of produced work, the publicity rights of all his sketches, drawings,
designs and photo archives from his very productive automotive life was handed over to this mentioned
German automobile historian in July 2004.
We ( Spidersweb.nl ) still have contact with Tom Tjaarda regularly, who is living in Turin and
still runs his own Design Studio there. He is among other things design consultant for the very
exclusive automobile builders
Spyker in
Zeewolde ( Netherlands ) and is invited regularly by automobile builders in Detroit, Korea, Japan and
China where he is still a celebrated and favorite designer and design consultant.
Due to a full scheduled agenda still, Tom Tjaarda requested this automobile historian in
particular to archive his files, because he was well-known with the material: he had already
successfully archived and charted before the life and work of the legendary car designer Pietro Frua ( 1913-1983 ).
About Pietro Frua, Tom Tjaarda wrote me earlier the following lines:
"Interesting that you are a jewelry designer. Where I live in the hills of Torino, my neighbor is
married to the nephew of Pietro Frua, the famous Torinese auto designer. He is a well known jewelry
designer himself and also owner of the entire Frua archives which is housed on the property where I
live".
In short
We are happy that Tom Tjaarda already had written his Fiat 124 Spider story for our website and had
sent us as well the accompanying photos ( in February-March 2004 ) a good length of time before the
mentioned historian came into sight.
We are very proud, that Tom Tjaarda wrote this story exclusively for our website.
Together with the conclusive copyright protection by the historian Dr. Stefan Dierkes since July 2004,
the exclusivity of the exposed material of Tom Tjaarda on our website will be well preserved and protected adequately.
Click on the logo below to have a look at the
Tom Tjaarda archives of Dr. Stefan Dierkes.
