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Bizzarrini Utes. p. A. was an Italian automotive manufacturer inside 1960s founded by past Alfa Romeo, Ferrari and ISO industrial engineer, Giotto Bizzarrini. The company built limited highly developed and superior sport and racing cars before failing in 1969. Notable models include your 5300 GT Strada and also 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 quite a few concept cars in the 2000s.Giotto Bizzarrini was given birth to in Livorno, Italy in 1926. His father was a rich landowner who originated in a family with robust roots in Tuscany and the city of Livorno. His grandfather, also named Giotto Bizzarrini, was a biologist who had worked with Guglielmo Marconi on his or her inventions, especially the radio, following which one from the Livorno Library sections had been named The Bizzarrini Selection.Bizzarrini graduated as an engineer within the University of Pisa with 1953. He taught briefly 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 regarding experimental, Sports and GT car development. He worked at Ferrari as being a developer, designer, test driver, and chief engineer for five years. His developments there included the Ferrari 250 TR, the Ferrari 250 GT SWB (Short Wheelbase Berlinetta or Berlinetta Passo Corto), and the 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO.

Bizzarrini had been fired by Ferrari in the "palace revolt" of 1961. He became part regarding Automobili Turismo e Activity (ATS)), a company started through the ex-Ferrari engineers to create a Formula 1 single seater and also 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 upgrade a Ferrari 250 GT SWB, with chassis number #2819GT to be able to GTO specifications. This resulted in your 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 any GT car to be built by another unhappy Ferrari customer, Ferruccio Lamborghini. Lamborghini considered the resulting engine to be too highly strung, and ordered that it be detuned.

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Bizzarrini worked since 1964 pertaining to Iso Rivolta and produced three models: Iso Rivolta GT, Iso Grifo both A3L in addition to A3C versions. His work was in order to develop a pressed steel frame chassis for Iso autos. Renzo Rivolta hired him as consultant for 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 through Giugiaro. Bizzarrini tested the car and was impressed by the powerful V8 Corvette engine along with the rear De Dion tube used by the GT:'Rivolta had me test the prototype. I liked its De Dion conduit and especially the Corvette motor. It was the new I had driven a single. It was superior to be able to Ferrari's engines, having the same power but which has a more immediate throttle reply. 'The Iso Rivolta GT was a Giugiaro designed some seater with beautiful entire body, speed, comfort and handling, and was a prosperous car for ISO having 799 units sold. Powered by a 327ci Chevrolet Corvette V8 engine using a classic De Dion raise suspension design with pressed steel monocoque bodywork in excess of pressed steel frame framework. Unveiled to the press in 1963, production continued until 1970.The Iso Grifo A3L was a monstrous idea for a super coupé, the L coming via Lusso. The result of your brilliant Giugiaro and Bizzarrini doing work together, it was based using a shortened Iso Rivolta GT chassis and was debuted in the 1963 Turin show. The Grifo epitomised this 1960s Italian style with its handsome low and extensive handmade bodywork. It was the best production car tested by Autocar Magazine in 1966 having a top speed of 160 mph (260 km/h). Later versions of the particular Grifo were powered by a big block Chevrolet Corvette 435 bhp (324 kW; 441 PS) serps. These 90 handbuilt units are distinguishable through the raised "pagoda style" deal bonnet. Some of these Iso Grifo 7 Litri products were rebuilt later with even bigger engines.

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

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

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