Bizzarrini S. p. A. was an Italian automotive manufacturer from the 1960s founded by previous Alfa Romeo, Ferrari and ISO electrical engineer, Giotto Bizzarrini. The company built a small amount of highly developed and state-of-the-art sport and racing cars before failing in 1969. Notable models include your 5300 GT Strada as well as the P538S.Originally Prototipi Bizzarrini s. r. l., the name was improved to Bizzarrini S. p. A. in 1966. The Bizzarrini marque has been revived with a number of concept cars in the particular 2000s.Giotto Bizzarrini was blessed in Livorno, Italy in 1926. His father was some sort of rich landowner who came from a family with strong roots in Tuscany and also the city of Livorno. His grandfather, also named Giotto Bizzarrini, was a biologist who had caused Guglielmo Marconi on their inventions, especially the radio, following which one from the Livorno Library sections had been named The Bizzarrini Stockpile.Bizzarrini graduated as an engineer from the University of Pisa inside 1953. He taught briefly just before joining Alfa Romeo within 1954. He worked for Alfa Romeo from 1954 to 1957. He began working with regard to 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 intended for five years. His developments there bundled the Ferrari 250 TR, the Ferrari 250 GT SWB (Small Wheelbase Berlinetta or Berlinetta Passo Corto), and the 1962 Ferrari three hundred GTO.
Giotto Bizzarrini tested the frist Picchio racing car Flickr Photo
Bizzarrini ended up being fired by Ferrari through the "palace revolt" of 1961. He became part involving Automobili Turismo e Game (ATS)), a company started because of the ex-Ferrari engineers to develop a Formula 1 single seater as well as a GT sport car, the A. T. S. Serenissima.One of ATS's personal backers, Count Giovanni Volpi, owner of Scuderia Serenissima, hired Bizzarrini to enhance a Ferrari 250 GT SWB, with chassis number #2819GT in order to GTO specifications. This resulted in the actual Ferrari 250 GT SWB Drogo also known as the "Breadvan".Bizzarrini's engineering company, Societa Autostar, was commissioned to design and style a V-12 engine for just a GT car to possibly be built by another not satisfied Ferrari customer, Ferruccio Lamborghini. Lamborghini considered the resulting engine being too highly strung, and ordered that the idea be detuned.
1968 Bizzarrini 5300 SI Spyder Conceptcarz
Bizzarrini worked since 1964 with regard to Iso Rivolta and produced three models: Iso Rivolta GT, Iso Grifo both A3L as well as A3C versions. His work was to formulate a pressed steel framework chassis for Iso cars. Renzo Rivolta hired him as consultant towards the Iso Gordon GT challenge which became the Iso Rivolta GT. The Iso Gordon GT prototype was developed from the Gordon-Keeble. The Gordon Keeble GT seemed to be designed in 1960 by means of Giugiaro. Bizzarrini tested the car and was impressed with the powerful V8 Corvette engine plus the rear De Dion tube used by the GT:'Rivolta acquired me test the prototype. I liked its De Dion pipe and especially the Corvette motor. It was the first-time I had driven one particular. It was superior to be able to Ferrari's engines, having the same power but using a more immediate throttle response. 'The Iso Rivolta GT was a Giugiaro designed four seater with beautiful physique, speed, comfort and handling, and was a profitable car for ISO along with 799 units sold. Powered by a 327ci Chevrolet Corvette V8 engine that has a classic De Dion back suspension design with pressed steel monocoque bodywork in excess of pressed steel frame chassis. Unveiled to the click in 1963, production continued until 1970.The Iso Grifo A3L has been a monstrous idea for just a super coupé, the L coming coming from Lusso. The result of the brilliant Giugiaro and Bizzarrini doing the job together, it was based using a shortened Iso Rivolta GT framework and was debuted in the 1963 Turin show. The Grifo epitomised the actual 1960s Italian style using its handsome low and broad handmade bodywork. It was the most effective production car tested by simply Autocar Magazine in 1966 which has a top speed of one hundred sixty mph (260 km/h). Later versions of this Grifo were powered by the big block Chevrolet Corvette 435 bhp (324 kW; 441 PS) motor. These 90 handbuilt units are distinguishable through the raised "pagoda style" info bonnet. Some of these Iso Grifo 7 Litri devices were rebuilt later with even bigger engines.
Bizzarrini GT 5300 Race Car Chassis No. BA4 0106 MyCarQuest.com
Thinking about Bizzarrini was to use the 3AL cars for competition. The competition versions with the Grifo were named Iso Grifo A3C, C for Competizione or even Corsa. A new lightweight riveted aluminium lightweight body was designed along with built by Piero Drogo. It was an strongly designed machine, oriented to endurance backgrounds. It uses normal ISO underpinnings nevertheless the engine was moved further back the chassis frame versus Grifo A3L, protruding well into the driver's cabin, fitted with hot cameras and fed by some big Weber carburettors, giving more than four hundred bhp (298 kW; 406 PS).
1968 Bizzarrini 5300 SI Spyder Images. Photo: 67BizzarriniSpyderSI
All around 29 A3C sport cars were built beneath ISO name. Five of these up to 29 cars were bodied inside plastic/fiberglass by Piero Drogo in Carrozzeria Sports Cars in Modena. A3Cs were widely ran. Some cars entered the actual 1964 and 1965 The Mans 24 hour, 1965 Nürburgring 1000 and 1965 Sebring. It achieved a The Mans class win in both years plus a 9th overall in 1965 without having factory support. A3Cs were one of the fastest cars on LeMans' Mulsanne Direct in both years.
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