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Bizzarrini S. p. A. was an Italian automotive manufacturer inside the 1960s founded by past Alfa Romeo, Ferrari and ISO professional, Giotto Bizzarrini. The company built a small number of highly developed and superior sport and racing motor vehicles before failing in 1969. Notable models include the 5300 GT Strada plus the P538S.Originally Prototipi Bizzarrini utes. r. l., the name was transformed to Bizzarrini S. p. A. in 1966. The Bizzarrini marque have been revived with several concept cars in the actual 2000s.Giotto Bizzarrini was delivered in Livorno, Italy in 1926. His father was a rich landowner who originated in a family with strong 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 their inventions, especially the radio, following which one of the Livorno Library sections seemed to be named The Bizzarrini Selection.Bizzarrini graduated as an engineer from the University of Pisa within 1953. He taught briefly before joining Alfa Romeo with 1954. He worked for Alfa Romeo by 1954 to 1957. He began working with regard to Ferrari in 1957, eventually becoming controller of experimental, Sports and GT car or truck development. He worked at Ferrari as being a developer, designer, test driver, and chief engineer pertaining to five years. His developments there bundled the Ferrari 250 TR, the Ferrari 250 GT SWB (Short Wheelbase Berlinetta or Berlinetta Passo Corto), and the 1962 Ferrari three hundred GTO.

Bizzarrini seemed to be fired by Ferrari in the "palace revolt" of 1961. He became part involving Automobili Turismo e Sports activity (ATS)), a company started because of the ex-Ferrari engineers to make a Formula 1 single seater and also 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 update a Ferrari 250 GT SWB, with chassis number #2819GT to GTO specifications. This resulted in this Ferrari 250 GT SWB Drogo also referred to 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 unhappy Ferrari customer, Ferruccio Lamborghini. Lamborghini considered the resulting engine to become too highly strung, and ordered that this be detuned.

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Bizzarrini worked since 1964 with regard to Iso Rivolta and formulated three models: Iso Rivolta GT, Iso Grifo both A3L as well as A3C versions. His work was to develop a pressed steel framework chassis for Iso automobiles. Renzo Rivolta hired him as consultant on the Iso Gordon GT challenge which became the Iso Rivolta GT. The Iso Gordon GT prototype was created from the Gordon-Keeble. The Gordon Keeble GT had been designed in 1960 by simply Giugiaro. Bizzarrini tested the vehicle and was impressed from the powerful V8 Corvette engine and the rear De Dion tube used for the GT:'Rivolta got me test the prototype. I liked its De Dion tv and especially the Corvette serps. It was the first-time I had driven a single. It was superior to help Ferrari's engines, having the same power but with a more immediate throttle answer. 'The Iso Rivolta GT ended up being a Giugiaro designed a number of seater with beautiful body, speed, comfort and handling, and was a profitable car for ISO having 799 units sold. Powered by a 327ci Chevrolet Corvette V8 engine having a classic De Dion backed suspension design with constrained steel monocoque bodywork above pressed steel frame chassis. Unveiled to the press in 1963, production continued until 1970.The Iso Grifo A3L had been a monstrous idea for just a super coupé, the L coming from Lusso. The result of the particular brilliant Giugiaro and Bizzarrini doing work together, it was based over a shortened Iso Rivolta GT framework and was debuted in the 1963 Turin show. The Grifo epitomised your 1960s Italian style with its handsome low and broad handmade bodywork. It was the fastest production car tested simply by Autocar Magazine in 1966 which has a top speed of one hundred sixty mph (260 km/h). Later versions of your Grifo were powered by the big block Chevrolet Corvette 435 bhp (324 kW; 441 PS) powerplant. These 90 handbuilt units are distinguishable by the raised "pagoda style" details bonnet. Some of these Iso Grifo 7 Litri units were rebuilt later with a great deal larger engines.

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The idea of Bizzarrini was to utilize the 3AL cars for competitors. The competition versions on the Grifo were named Iso Grifo A3C, C for Competizione or maybe Corsa. A new lightweight riveted aluminum body was designed along with built by Piero Drogo. It was an boldy designed machine, oriented to endurance backgrounds. It uses normal ISO underpinnings nevertheless the engine was moved further last the chassis frame compared to Grifo A3L, protruding well into your driver's cabin, fitted with hot cameras and fed by four big Weber carburettors, giving more than 400 bhp (298 kW; 406 PS).

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All-around 29 A3C sport cars were built underneath the ISO name. Five of these up to 29 cars were bodied in plastic/fiberglass by Piero Drogo in Carrozzeria Sports Cars inside Modena. A3Cs were widely raced. Some cars entered the particular 1964 and 1965 The Mans 24 hour, 1965 Nürburgring 1000 and 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 with the fastest cars on LeMans' Mulsanne Immediately in both years.

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