Bizzarrini Ersus. p. A. was an Italian automotive manufacturer within the 1960s founded by ex - Alfa Romeo, Ferrari and ISO professional, Giotto Bizzarrini. The company built a small amount of highly developed and sophisticated sport and racing vehicles before failing in 1969. Notable models include your 5300 GT Strada along with the P538S.Originally Prototipi Bizzarrini ersus. r. l., the name was modified to Bizzarrini S. p. A. in 1966. The Bizzarrini marque has become revived with a number of concept cars in the particular 2000s.Giotto Bizzarrini was created in Livorno, Italy in 1926. His father was the rich landowner who originated in a family with powerful 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 their inventions, especially the radio, following which one in the Livorno Library sections had been named The Bizzarrini Stockpile.Bizzarrini graduated as an engineer within the University of Pisa in 1953. He taught briefly before joining Alfa Romeo inside 1954. He worked for Alfa Romeo via 1954 to 1957. He began working regarding Ferrari in 1957, eventually becoming controller connected with experimental, Sports and GT car or truck development. He worked at Ferrari as 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 (Small Wheelbase Berlinetta or Berlinetta Passo Corto), and the 1962 Ferrari two hundred and fifty GTO.
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Bizzarrini has been fired by Ferrari during the "palace revolt" of 1961. He became part involving Automobili Turismo e Game (ATS)), a company started because of the ex-Ferrari engineers to build a Formula 1 single seater and also a GT sport car, the A. T. S. Serenissima.One of ATS's economic backers, Count Giovanni Volpi, owner of Scuderia Serenissima, hired Bizzarrini to improve a Ferrari 250 GT SWB, with chassis number #2819GT to help GTO specifications. This resulted in your Ferrari 250 GT SWB Drogo generally known as the "Breadvan".Bizzarrini's engineering company, Societa Autostar, was commissioned to design a V-12 engine for just a GT car to be built by another not satisfied Ferrari customer, Ferruccio Lamborghini. Lamborghini considered the resulting engine to get too highly strung, and ordered that the item be detuned.
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Bizzarrini worked since 1964 intended for Iso Rivolta and created three models: Iso Rivolta GT, Iso Grifo both A3L as well as A3C versions. His work was to produce a pressed steel figure chassis for Iso cars and trucks. 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 ended up being designed in 1960 simply by Giugiaro. Bizzarrini tested the vehicle and was impressed with the powerful V8 Corvette engine as well as the rear De Dion tube used by the GT:'Rivolta received me test the prototype. I liked its De Dion pipe and especially the Corvette powerplant. It was the very first time I had driven one. It was superior for you to Ferrari's engines, having the same power but using a more immediate throttle reply. 'The Iso Rivolta GT was a Giugiaro designed four seater with beautiful body, speed, comfort and handling, and was a effective car for ISO using 799 units sold. Powered by a 327ci Chevrolet Corvette V8 engine with a classic De Dion rear suspension design with pressed steel monocoque bodywork around pressed steel frame framework. Unveiled to the press in 1963, production continued until 1970.The Iso Grifo A3L was a monstrous idea for any super coupé, the L coming coming from Lusso. The result of this brilliant Giugiaro and Bizzarrini functioning together, it was based on a shortened Iso Rivolta GT framework and was debuted for the 1963 Turin show. The Grifo epitomised your 1960s Italian style with its handsome low and large handmade bodywork. It was the most effective production car tested by Autocar Magazine in 1966 with a top speed of one hundred sixty mph (260 km/h). Later versions of the actual Grifo were powered by the big block Chevrolet Corvette 435 bhp (324 kW; 441 PS) serp. 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 even bigger engines.
The thought of Bizzarrini was to make use of the 3AL cars for rivalry. The competition versions in the Grifo were named Iso Grifo A3C, C for Competizione or Corsa. A new lightweight riveted aluminium body was designed as well as built by Piero Drogo. It was an in a hostile manner designed machine, oriented to endurance races. It uses normal ISO underpinnings nevertheless the engine was moved further last the chassis frame versus Grifo A3L, protruding well into the actual 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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About 29 A3C sport cars were built beneath ISO name. Five of these twenty nine cars were bodied throughout plastic/fiberglass by Piero Drogo in Carrozzeria Sports Cars throughout Modena. A3Cs were widely competed. Some cars entered the particular 1964 and 1965 The Mans 24 hour, 1965 Nürburgring 1000 as well as 1965 Sebring. It achieved a Le Mans class win in both years and also a 9th overall in 1965 without factory support. A3Cs were one with the fastest cars on LeMans' Mulsanne Direct in both years.
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