Soup :: Inside Rino Caracchi's Bologna Ducati Workshop (2000)

Inside Rino Caracchi's Bologna Ducati Workshop (2000)
images by dean adams

Soup was invited to Rino Carachi's home and shop in Bologna Italy in August 2000. We shot digital photos with a period (crap) camera.	The basement of Rino's shop.	Engines lined up for a 'Rino restoration'.	Here Caracchi works his magic while chatting with one of Soup's original Friend of Site, Marc 'I'll drive' Malterer.
Rino holds a photo that hangs in his garage of him pushing off Hailwood at the '78 Isle of Man.	A real Ducati enthusiast could spend days at Rino's place and never grow bored.	A Hailwood replica awaits the Caracchi resto' with more in line under it.	Sitting on an engine stand, a Ducati thumper engine that Caracchi described as 'very rare'.
And you thought that your garage was a little too tightly packed?	Bevel drive, Desmo ... they all sit waiting for Caracchi to massage them.	Rino's son Stefano watches a re-run of GP qualifying as we basked in the coolness.	Caracchi is a legend in the Ducati tuning business, and spun wrenches for Mike Hailwood, Franco Farne and Doug Polen, among others.
Rino's shop has parts for nearly every Ducati made from 1969 on.