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Bizzarrini S. p. A. was an Italian automotive manufacturer in the 1960s founded by former Alfa Romeo, Ferrari and ISO engineer, Giotto Bizzarrini. The company built a small number of highly developed and sophisticated sport and racing motor vehicles before failing in 1969. Notable models include the 5300 GT Strada and the P538S.Originally Prototipi Bizzarrini ohydrates. r. l., the name was changed to Bizzarrini S. p. A. in 1966. The Bizzarrini marque has been revived with several concept cars in the particular 2000s.Giotto Bizzarrini was delivered in Livorno, Italy in 1926. His father was any rich landowner who came from a family with robust roots in Tuscany plus 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 on the Livorno Library sections ended up being named The Bizzarrini Stockpile.Bizzarrini graduated as an engineer from the University of Pisa throughout 1953. He taught briefly prior to joining Alfa Romeo within 1954. He worked for Alfa Romeo through 1954 to 1957. He began working for Ferrari in 1957, eventually becoming controller involving experimental, Sports and GT auto development. He worked at Ferrari as being a developer, designer, test driver, and chief engineer regarding 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 two hundred and fifty GTO.

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Bizzarrini was fired by Ferrari through the "palace revolt" of 1961. He became part regarding Automobili Turismo e Hobby (ATS)), a company started through the ex-Ferrari engineers to produce a Formula 1 single seater along with 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 enhance a Ferrari 250 GT SWB, with chassis number #2819GT to be able 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 pattern a V-12 engine for a GT car to end up being built by another unhappy Ferrari customer, Ferruccio Lamborghini. Lamborghini considered the resulting engine to get too highly strung, and ordered that it be detuned.

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Bizzarrini worked since 1964 for Iso Rivolta and produced three models: Iso Rivolta GT, Iso Grifo both A3L and also A3C versions. His work was to produce a pressed steel figure chassis for Iso cars and trucks. Renzo Rivolta hired him as consultant towards 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 through Giugiaro. Bizzarrini tested the vehicle and was impressed because of the powerful V8 Corvette engine along with the rear De Dion tube for the GT:'Rivolta got me test the prototype. I liked its De Dion tube and especially the Corvette engine. It was the very first time I had driven one. It was superior in order to Ferrari's engines, having the same power but having a more immediate throttle reply. 'The Iso Rivolta GT has been a Giugiaro designed four seater with beautiful system, speed, comfort and handling, and was a profitable car for ISO together with 799 units sold. Powered by a 327ci Chevrolet Corvette V8 engine which has a classic De Dion raise suspension design with hard pressed steel monocoque bodywork over pressed steel frame framework. Unveiled to the mass media in 1963, production continued until 1970.The Iso Grifo A3L ended up being a monstrous idea for any super coupé, the L coming through Lusso. The result of your brilliant Giugiaro and Bizzarrini doing work together, it was based with a shortened Iso Rivolta GT framework and was debuted at the 1963 Turin show. The Grifo epitomised the particular 1960s Italian style which consists of handsome low and broad handmade bodywork. It was the fastest production car tested by means of Autocar Magazine in 1966 which has a top speed of one hundred sixty mph (260 km/h). Later versions of the Grifo were powered by way of a big block Chevrolet Corvette 435 bhp (324 kW; 441 PS) powerplant. These 90 handbuilt units are distinguishable through the raised "pagoda style" deal bonnet. Some of these Iso Grifo 7 Litri models were rebuilt later with a whole lot larger engines.

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The idea of Bizzarrini was to utilize 3AL cars for rivalry. The competition versions of the Grifo were named Iso Grifo A3C, C for Competizione or perhaps Corsa. A new lightweight riveted alloy body was designed in addition to built by Piero Drogo. It was an strongly designed machine, oriented to endurance backrounds. It uses normal ISO underpinnings though the engine was moved further in the chassis frame than the Grifo A3L, protruding well into your driver's cabin, fitted with hot cameras and fed by several 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 within the ISO name. Five of these 29 cars were bodied within plastic/fiberglass by Piero Drogo on Carrozzeria Sports Cars inside Modena. A3Cs were widely raced. Some cars entered your 1964 and 1965 The Mans 24 hour, 1965 Nürburgring 1000 and also 1965 Sebring. It achieved a The Mans class win in both years and a 9th overall in 1965 without factory support. A3Cs were one with the fastest cars on LeMans' Mulsanne Immediately in both years.

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