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Bizzarrini Utes. p. A. was an Italian automotive manufacturer inside 1960s founded by ex- Alfa Romeo, Ferrari and ISO electrical engineer, Giotto Bizzarrini. The company built a small amount of highly developed and superior sport and racing autos before failing in 1969. Notable models include the actual 5300 GT Strada and also the P538S.Originally Prototipi Bizzarrini azines. r. l., the name was altered to Bizzarrini S. p. A. in 1966. The Bizzarrini marque has become revived with a number of concept cars in the particular 2000s.Giotto Bizzarrini was blessed in Livorno, Italy in 1926. His father was a rich landowner who originated in a family with strong roots in Tuscany plus the city of Livorno. His grandfather, also named Giotto Bizzarrini, was a biologist who had caused Guglielmo Marconi on his inventions, especially the radio, following which one of the Livorno Library sections ended up being named The Bizzarrini Stockpile.Bizzarrini graduated as an engineer from the University of Pisa in 1953. He taught briefly just before joining Alfa Romeo inside 1954. He worked for Alfa Romeo from 1954 to 1957. He began working with regard to Ferrari in 1957, eventually becoming controller involving experimental, Sports and GT automobile development. He worked at Ferrari like a developer, designer, test driver, and chief engineer for five years. His developments there incorporated the Ferrari 250 TR, the Ferrari 250 GT SWB (Brief Wheelbase Berlinetta or Berlinetta Passo Corto), and the 1962 Ferrari two hundred and fifty GTO.

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Bizzarrini was fired by Ferrari in the "palace revolt" of 1961. He became part involving Automobili Turismo e Sports activity (ATS)), a company started through the ex-Ferrari engineers to develop a Formula 1 single seater plus a GT sport car, the A. T. S. Serenissima.One of ATS's fiscal backers, Count Giovanni Volpi, owner of Scuderia Serenissima, hired Bizzarrini to enhance a Ferrari 250 GT SWB, with chassis number #2819GT to help GTO specifications. This resulted in the particular Ferrari 250 GT SWB Drogo often known as the "Breadvan".Bizzarrini's engineering company, Societa Autostar, was commissioned to style a V-12 engine to get a GT car to be built by another disappointed Ferrari customer, Ferruccio Lamborghini. Lamborghini considered the resulting engine to get too highly strung, and ordered that that be detuned.

Bizzarrini worked since 1964 pertaining to Iso Rivolta and formulated three models: Iso Rivolta GT, Iso Grifo both A3L as well as A3C versions. His work was to produce a pressed steel frame chassis for Iso autos. Renzo Rivolta hired him as consultant for the Iso Gordon GT venture which became the Iso Rivolta GT. The Iso Gordon GT prototype was developed from the Gordon-Keeble. The Gordon Keeble GT was designed in 1960 through Giugiaro. Bizzarrini tested the car and was impressed because of the powerful V8 Corvette engine plus the rear De Dion tube useful for the GT:'Rivolta acquired me test the prototype. I liked its De Dion tv and especially the Corvette engine. It was the first time I had driven just one. It was superior in order to Ferrari's engines, having the same power but with a more immediate throttle reaction. 'The Iso Rivolta GT had been a Giugiaro designed some seater with beautiful human body, speed, comfort and handling, and was a successful car for ISO using 799 units sold. Powered by a 327ci Chevrolet Corvette V8 engine using a classic De Dion rear suspension design with forced steel monocoque bodywork over pressed steel frame framework. Unveiled to the mass media in 1963, production continued until 1970.The Iso Grifo A3L has been a monstrous idea to get a super coupé, the L coming through Lusso. The result of this brilliant Giugiaro and Bizzarrini doing the job together, it was based on the shortened Iso Rivolta GT chassis and was debuted in the 1963 Turin show. The Grifo epitomised the actual 1960s Italian style with its handsome low and extensive handmade bodywork. It was the fastest production car tested by Autocar Magazine in 1966 which has a top speed of one hundred sixty mph (260 km/h). Later versions of the actual Grifo were powered by the big block Chevrolet Corvette 435 bhp (324 kW; 441 PS) powerplant. These 90 handbuilt units are distinguishable through the raised "pagoda style" deal bonnet. Some of these Iso Grifo 7 Litri items were rebuilt later with a whole lot larger engines.

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The thinking behind Bizzarrini was to use the 3AL cars for rivalry. The competition versions with the Grifo were named Iso Grifo A3C, C for Competizione or maybe Corsa. A new lightweight riveted aluminium lightweight body was designed along with built by Piero Drogo. It was an aggressively designed machine, oriented to endurance events. It uses normal ISO underpinnings though the engine was moved further in the chassis frame as opposed to Grifo A3L, protruding well into the particular driver's cabin, fitted with hot cameras and fed by several big Weber carburettors, giving more than four hundred bhp (298 kW; 406 PS).

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All-around 29 A3C sport cars were built beneath the ISO name. Five of these 28 cars were bodied throughout plastic/fiberglass by Piero Drogo with Carrozzeria Sports Cars within Modena. A3Cs were widely raced. Some cars entered this 1964 and 1965 The Mans 24 hour, 1965 Nürburgring 1000 and 1965 Sebring. It achieved a The Mans class win in both years and a 9th overall in 1965 without the need of factory support. A3Cs were one in the fastest cars on LeMans' Mulsanne Straight in both years.

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