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Bizzarrini Ohydrates. p. A. was an Italian automotive manufacturer in the 1960s founded by previous Alfa Romeo, Ferrari and ISO engineer, Giotto Bizzarrini. The company built limited highly developed and state-of-the-art sport and racing cars before failing in 1969. Notable models include the 5300 GT Strada and the P538S.Originally Prototipi Bizzarrini azines. r. l., the name was transformed to Bizzarrini S. p. A. in 1966. The Bizzarrini marque has become revived with numerous concept cars in the particular 2000s.Giotto Bizzarrini was delivered in Livorno, Italy in 1926. His father was some sort of rich landowner who came from a family with solid roots in Tuscany and also the city of Livorno. His grandfather, also named Giotto Bizzarrini, was a biologist who had worked with Guglielmo Marconi on the inventions, especially the radio, following which one on the Livorno Library sections has been named The Bizzarrini Selection.Bizzarrini graduated as an engineer in the University of Pisa throughout 1953. He taught briefly previous to joining Alfa Romeo inside 1954. He worked for Alfa Romeo through 1954 to 1957. He began working pertaining to Ferrari in 1957, eventually becoming controller associated with experimental, Sports and GT car or truck development. He worked at Ferrari as being a developer, designer, test driver, and chief engineer for five years. His developments there involved the Ferrari 250 TR, the Ferrari 250 GT SWB (Limited Wheelbase Berlinetta or Berlinetta Passo Corto), and the 1962 Ferrari three hundred GTO.

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Bizzarrini ended up being fired by Ferrari through the "palace revolt" of 1961. He became part involving Automobili Turismo e Activity (ATS)), a company started by 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 financial backers, Count Giovanni Volpi, owner of Scuderia Serenissima, hired Bizzarrini to upgrade 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 referred to as the "Breadvan".Bizzarrini's engineering company, Societa Autostar, was commissioned to pattern a V-12 engine for a GT car to possibly be built by another not satisfied Ferrari customer, Ferruccio Lamborghini. Lamborghini considered the resulting engine for being too highly strung, and ordered that the idea be detuned.

Bizzarrini worked since 1964 for Iso Rivolta and produced three models: Iso Rivolta GT, Iso Grifo both A3L and A3C versions. His work was to develop a pressed steel body chassis for Iso cars. Renzo Rivolta hired him as consultant on the Iso Gordon GT challenge which became the Iso Rivolta GT. The Iso Gordon GT prototype originated from the Gordon-Keeble. The Gordon Keeble GT was designed in 1960 by means of Giugiaro. Bizzarrini tested the auto and was impressed from the powerful V8 Corvette engine and the rear De Dion tube useful for the GT:'Rivolta got me test the prototype. I liked its De Dion pipe and especially the Corvette serp. It was the first time I had driven one. It was superior in order to Ferrari's engines, having the same power but with a more immediate throttle response. 'The Iso Rivolta GT was a Giugiaro designed 4 seater with beautiful human body, speed, comfort and handling, and was a successful car for ISO together with 799 units sold. Powered by a 327ci Chevrolet Corvette V8 engine that has a classic De Dion backside suspension design with constrained steel monocoque bodywork more than pressed steel frame framework. 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 via Lusso. The result of the particular brilliant Giugiaro and Bizzarrini doing the job 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 featuring a handsome low and extensive handmade bodywork. It was the best production car tested by Autocar Magazine in 1966 that has a top speed of 160 mph (260 km/h). Later versions of the Grifo were powered by way of a big block Chevrolet Corvette 435 bhp (324 kW; 441 PS) serp. These 90 handbuilt units are distinguishable because of the raised "pagoda style" information bonnet. Some of these Iso Grifo 7 Litri devices were rebuilt later with a great deal larger engines.

The thinking behind Bizzarrini was to use the 3AL cars for opposition. The competition versions from the Grifo were named Iso Grifo A3C, C for Competizione or perhaps Corsa. A new lightweight riveted aluminium body was designed as well as built by Piero Drogo. It was an more boldly designed machine, oriented to endurance backgrounds. It uses normal ISO underpinnings but the engine was moved further in the chassis frame versus Grifo A3L, protruding well into the particular driver's cabin, fitted with hot cameras and fed by a number of big Weber carburettors, giving more than 400 bhp (298 kW; 406 PS).

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About 29 A3C sport cars were built beneath ISO name. Five of these 29 cars were bodied with plastic/fiberglass by Piero Drogo at Carrozzeria Sports Cars within Modena. A3Cs were widely competed. Some cars entered the 1964 and 1965 Le Mans 24 hour, 1965 Nürburgring 1000 as well as 1965 Sebring. It achieved a Le Mans class win in both years plus a 9th overall in 1965 without any factory support. A3Cs were one on the fastest cars on LeMans' Mulsanne Directly in both years.

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