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Bizzarrini Utes. p. A. was an Italian automotive manufacturer within the 1960s founded by former Alfa Romeo, Ferrari and ISO industrial engineer, Giotto Bizzarrini. The company built a small number of highly developed and sophisticated sport and racing cars before failing in 1969. Notable models include the 5300 GT Strada as well as the P538S.Originally Prototipi Bizzarrini azines. r. l., the name was altered to Bizzarrini S. p. A. in 1966. The Bizzarrini marque continues to be revived with many concept cars in the actual 2000s.Giotto Bizzarrini was created in Livorno, Italy in 1926. His father was a new rich landowner who got their start in a family with sturdy roots in Tuscany along with the city of Livorno. His grandfather, also named Giotto Bizzarrini, was a biologist who had worked with Guglielmo Marconi on his / her inventions, especially the radio, following which one from the Livorno Library sections has been named The Bizzarrini Selection.Bizzarrini graduated as an engineer within the University of Pisa in 1953. He taught briefly ahead of joining Alfa Romeo with 1954. He worked for Alfa Romeo from 1954 to 1957. He began working intended for Ferrari in 1957, eventually becoming controller involving experimental, Sports and GT car development. He worked at Ferrari as a developer, designer, test driver, and chief engineer pertaining to 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 300 GTO.

1967 Bizzarrini 5300 GT Strada

Bizzarrini was fired by Ferrari during the "palace revolt" of 1961. He became part associated with Automobili Turismo e Sport (ATS)), a company started through the ex-Ferrari engineers to produce a Formula 1 single seater and 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 to GTO specifications. This resulted in the actual 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 any GT car to always be built by another not satisfied Ferrari customer, Ferruccio Lamborghini. Lamborghini considered the resulting engine to be too highly strung, and ordered that this be detuned.

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Bizzarrini worked since 1964 intended for Iso Rivolta and formulated three models: Iso Rivolta GT, Iso Grifo both A3L as well as A3C versions. His work was to produce a pressed steel shape chassis for Iso cars. Renzo Rivolta hired him as consultant for the Iso Gordon GT challenge which became the Iso Rivolta GT. The Iso Gordon GT prototype was made from the Gordon-Keeble. The Gordon Keeble GT seemed to be designed in 1960 simply by Giugiaro. Bizzarrini tested the automobile and was impressed from the powerful V8 Corvette engine and the rear De Dion tube useful for the GT:'Rivolta experienced me test the prototype. I liked its De Dion tv and especially the Corvette motor. It was the very first time I had driven just one. It was superior for you to Ferrari's engines, having the same power but which has a more immediate throttle reaction. 'The Iso Rivolta GT has been a Giugiaro designed 4 seater with beautiful physique, speed, comfort and handling, and was a successful car for ISO with 799 units sold. Powered by a 327ci Chevrolet Corvette V8 engine that has a classic De Dion back suspension design with pushed steel monocoque bodywork over pressed steel frame chassis. Unveiled to the media in 1963, production continued until 1970.The Iso Grifo A3L had been a monstrous idea for any super coupé, the L coming from Lusso. The result of your brilliant Giugiaro and Bizzarrini operating together, it was based on the shortened Iso Rivolta GT framework and was debuted in the 1963 Turin show. The Grifo epitomised the 1960s Italian style featuring a handsome low and wide handmade bodywork. It was the quickest production car tested by Autocar Magazine in 1966 with a top speed of 160 mph (260 km/h). Later versions of the actual Grifo were powered with a 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 devices were rebuilt later with a whole lot larger engines.

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The concept of Bizzarrini was to make use of the 3AL cars for competitors. The competition versions in the Grifo were named Iso Grifo A3C, C for Competizione or even Corsa. A new lightweight riveted alloy body was designed in addition to built by Piero Drogo. It was an aggressively designed machine, oriented to endurance backrounds. It uses normal ISO underpinnings though the engine was moved further last the chassis frame compared to Grifo A3L, protruding well into the actual driver's cabin, fitted with hot cams and fed by four big Weber carburettors, giving more than 600 bhp (298 kW; 406 PS).

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

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