Of all the styling houses to have collaborated with Ferrari throughout its 75-year history, one name in particular stands head and shoulders above the rest: Pininfarina.

No other carrozzeria has enjoyed such a close and enduring relationship with the Prancing Horse, or designed so many exquisite bodies for so many different models.

From the 250 GT of the late 1950s, via such classics as the 275 GTB, Daytona, Testarossa, and F40, Pininfarina has been responsible for some of the most iconic shapes ever to leave the Ferrari factory.

It is fitting, then, that to honour the Turin coachbuilder’s 80th anniversary, Maranello chose to create its own very special homage to the firm: the SA Aperta.

As the cognoscenti will know, SA referred to Sergio and Andrea Pininfarina (respectively, the son and grandson of company founder Batista “Pinin” Farina).

Aperta , meanwhile, was a self-explanatory nod to the reconfigured body—the word meaning “open” in Italian.

Unveiled at the 2010 Paris Salon, ...