1965 Iso Grifo A3/C Bizzarrini at the Mecum Auction in Monterey

Bizzarrini Utes. p. A. was an Italian automotive manufacturer from the 1960s founded by ex- Alfa Romeo, Ferrari and ISO industrial engineer, Giotto Bizzarrini. The company built few highly developed and superior sport and racing automobiles before failing in 1969. Notable models include the actual 5300 GT Strada and the P538S.Originally Prototipi Bizzarrini ersus. r. l., the name was modified to Bizzarrini S. p. A. in 1966. The Bizzarrini marque has become revived with several concept cars in the particular 2000s.Giotto Bizzarrini was given birth to in Livorno, Italy in 1926. His father was some sort of rich landowner who originated a family with powerful roots in Tuscany and also the city of Livorno. His grandfather, also named Giotto Bizzarrini, was a biologist who had caused Guglielmo Marconi on his or her inventions, especially the radio, following which one from the Livorno Library sections seemed to be named The Bizzarrini Selection.Bizzarrini graduated as an engineer within the University of Pisa within 1953. He taught briefly previous to joining Alfa Romeo in 1954. He worked for Alfa Romeo coming from 1954 to 1957. He began working regarding Ferrari in 1957, eventually becoming controller associated with experimental, Sports and GT car development. He worked at Ferrari to be a developer, designer, test driver, and chief engineer for five years. His developments there incorporated the Ferrari 250 TR, the Ferrari 250 GT SWB (Small Wheelbase Berlinetta or Berlinetta Passo Corto), and the 1962 Ferrari three hundred GTO.

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Bizzarrini has been fired by Ferrari during the "palace revolt" of 1961. He became part connected with Automobili Turismo e Sports activity (ATS)), a company started because of the ex-Ferrari engineers to make a Formula 1 single seater and a GT sport car, the A. T. S. Serenissima.One of ATS's monetary backers, Count Giovanni Volpi, owner of Scuderia Serenissima, hired Bizzarrini to up grade a Ferrari 250 GT SWB, with chassis number #2819GT to help GTO specifications. This resulted in the Ferrari 250 GT SWB Drogo generally known as the "Breadvan".Bizzarrini's engineering company, Societa Autostar, was commissioned to design a V-12 engine to get a GT car to end up being built by another dissatisfied Ferrari customer, Ferruccio Lamborghini. Lamborghini considered the resulting engine for being too highly strung, and ordered that this be detuned.

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Bizzarrini worked since 1964 with regard to Iso Rivolta and designed three models: Iso Rivolta GT, Iso Grifo both A3L along with A3C versions. His work was to build up a pressed steel figure chassis for Iso cars. Renzo Rivolta hired him as consultant to 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 has been designed in 1960 through Giugiaro. Bizzarrini tested the auto and was impressed because of the powerful V8 Corvette engine and also the rear De Dion tube used by the GT:'Rivolta received me test the prototype. I liked its De Dion tv and especially the Corvette engine. It was the first time I had driven one. It was superior in order to Ferrari's engines, having the same power but using a more immediate throttle response. 'The Iso Rivolta GT had been a Giugiaro designed 4 seater with beautiful entire body, speed, comfort and handling, and was a profitable car for ISO having 799 units sold. Powered by a 327ci Chevrolet Corvette V8 engine which has a classic De Dion raise suspension design with pushed steel monocoque bodywork above pressed steel frame framework. Unveiled to the media in 1963, production continued until 1970.The Iso Grifo A3L ended up being a monstrous idea for just a super coupé, the L coming by Lusso. The result of this brilliant Giugiaro and Bizzarrini operating together, it was based with a shortened Iso Rivolta GT framework and was debuted for the 1963 Turin show. The Grifo epitomised the actual 1960s Italian style with its handsome low and large handmade bodywork. It was the best production car tested through Autocar Magazine in 1966 with a top speed of one hundred sixty mph (260 km/h). Later versions of this Grifo were powered by way of a big block Chevrolet Corvette 435 bhp (324 kW; 441 PS) engine. These 90 handbuilt units are distinguishable through the raised "pagoda style" info bonnet. Some of these Iso Grifo 7 Litri products were rebuilt later with a whole lot larger engines.

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The concept of Bizzarrini was to utilize the 3AL cars for rivalry. The competition versions in the Grifo were named Iso Grifo A3C, C for Competizione or perhaps Corsa. A new lightweight riveted lightweight alloy body was designed and built by Piero Drogo. It was an aggressively designed machine, oriented to endurance backrounds. It uses normal ISO underpinnings even so the engine was moved further back in the chassis frame than the Grifo A3L, protruding well into the particular driver's cabin, fitted with hot cams and fed by four big Weber carburettors, giving more than 500 bhp (298 kW; 406 PS).

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All around 29 A3C sport cars were built under the ISO name. Five of these 29 cars were bodied in plastic/fiberglass by Piero Drogo on Carrozzeria Sports Cars inside Modena. A3Cs were widely ran. Some cars entered the particular 1964 and 1965 Le Mans 24 hour, 1965 Nürburgring 1000 and also 1965 Sebring. It achieved a The Mans class win in both years and also a 9th overall in 1965 without factory support. A3Cs were one with the fastest cars on LeMans' Mulsanne Directly in both years.

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