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Bizzarrini Ohydrates. p. A. was an Italian automotive manufacturer in the 1960s founded by ex- Alfa Romeo, Ferrari and ISO engineer, Giotto Bizzarrini. The company built limited highly developed and superior sport and racing automobiles before failing in 1969. Notable models include your 5300 GT Strada along with the P538S.Originally Prototipi Bizzarrini utes. r. l., the name was modified to Bizzarrini S. p. A. in 1966. The Bizzarrini marque may be revived with quite a few concept cars in the 2000s.Giotto Bizzarrini was delivered in Livorno, Italy in 1926. His father was some sort of rich landowner who got their start 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 in the Livorno Library sections has been named The Bizzarrini Catalogue.Bizzarrini graduated as an engineer in the University of Pisa in 1953. He taught briefly before joining Alfa Romeo in 1954. He worked for Alfa Romeo coming from 1954 to 1957. He began working intended for Ferrari in 1957, eventually becoming controller connected with experimental, Sports and GT automobile development. He worked at Ferrari being a developer, designer, test driver, and chief engineer intended for five years. His developments there integrated the Ferrari 250 TR, the Ferrari 250 GT SWB (Quick Wheelbase Berlinetta or Berlinetta Passo Corto), and the 1962 Ferrari 300 GTO.

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Bizzarrini seemed to be fired by Ferrari throughout the "palace revolt" of 1961. He became part connected with Automobili Turismo e Sport (ATS)), a company started by the ex-Ferrari engineers to create a Formula 1 single seater plus 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 improve a Ferrari 250 GT SWB, with chassis number #2819GT for you to GTO specifications. This resulted in this Ferrari 250 GT SWB Drogo also called the "Breadvan".Bizzarrini's engineering company, Societa Autostar, was commissioned to design and style a V-12 engine for a 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 that be detuned.

Bizzarrini worked since 1964 for Iso Rivolta and developed three models: Iso Rivolta GT, Iso Grifo both A3L and also A3C versions. His work was in order to develop a pressed steel frame chassis for Iso automobiles. Renzo Rivolta hired him as consultant for the Iso Gordon GT project which became the Iso Rivolta GT. The Iso Gordon GT prototype originated from the Gordon-Keeble. The Gordon Keeble GT had been designed in 1960 simply by Giugiaro. Bizzarrini tested the car and was impressed through the powerful V8 Corvette engine as well as the rear De Dion tube used by the GT:'Rivolta acquired me test the prototype. I liked its De Dion tubing and especially the Corvette serps. It was the new I had driven 1. It was superior 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 entire body, speed, comfort and handling, and was a successful car for ISO having 799 units sold. Powered by a 327ci Chevrolet Corvette V8 engine which has a classic De Dion back suspension design with hard pressed steel monocoque bodywork in excess of pressed steel frame framework. Unveiled to the media in 1963, production continued until 1970.The Iso Grifo A3L was a monstrous idea to get a super coupé, the L coming from Lusso. The result of the particular brilliant Giugiaro and Bizzarrini functioning together, it was based on a shortened Iso Rivolta GT framework and was debuted in the 1963 Turin show. The Grifo epitomised the 1960s Italian style with its handsome low and wide handmade bodywork. It was the quickest production car tested by simply Autocar Magazine in 1966 using a top speed of 160 mph (260 km/h). Later versions of the Grifo were powered by way of big block Chevrolet Corvette 435 bhp (324 kW; 441 PS) motor. These 90 handbuilt units are distinguishable by the raised "pagoda style" scoop bonnet. Some of these Iso Grifo 7 Litri items were rebuilt later with even bigger engines.

Thinking about Bizzarrini was to utilize the 3AL cars for competitors. The competition versions in the Grifo were named Iso Grifo A3C, C for Competizione as well as Corsa. A new lightweight riveted alloy body was designed and also 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 the chassis frame compared to Grifo A3L, protruding well into the actual driver's cabin, fitted with hot cams and fed by some big Weber carburettors, giving more than 500 bhp (298 kW; 406 PS).

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About 29 A3C sport cars were built beneath ISO name. Five of these twenty nine cars were bodied within plastic/fiberglass by Piero Drogo on Carrozzeria Sports Cars with Modena. A3Cs were widely raced. 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 plus a 9th overall in 1965 without factory support. A3Cs were one of the fastest cars on LeMans' Mulsanne Immediately in both years.

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