Bizzarrini Utes. p. A. was an Italian automotive manufacturer inside the 1960s founded by ex- Alfa Romeo, Ferrari and ISO manufacture, Giotto Bizzarrini. The company built limited highly developed and superior sport and racing cars before failing in 1969. Notable models include this 5300 GT Strada and also the P538S.Originally Prototipi Bizzarrini utes. r. l., the name was improved to Bizzarrini S. p. A. in 1966. The Bizzarrini marque has been revived with quite a few concept cars in the 2000s.Giotto Bizzarrini was blessed in Livorno, Italy in 1926. His father was some sort of rich landowner who got their start in a family with solid roots in Tuscany plus the city of Livorno. His grandfather, also named Giotto Bizzarrini, was a biologist who had caused Guglielmo Marconi on his inventions, especially the radio, following which one in the Livorno Library sections had been named The Bizzarrini Collection.Bizzarrini graduated as an engineer within the University of Pisa with 1953. He taught briefly just before joining Alfa Romeo throughout 1954. He worked for Alfa Romeo via 1954 to 1957. He began working with regard to 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 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 two hundred and fifty GTO.
Bizzarrini ended up being fired by Ferrari during the "palace revolt" of 1961. He became part involving Automobili Turismo e Activity (ATS)), a company started from the ex-Ferrari engineers to make a Formula 1 single seater along with 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 upgrade a Ferrari 250 GT SWB, with chassis number #2819GT for you to GTO specifications. This resulted in this Ferrari 250 GT SWB Drogo also known as the "Breadvan".Bizzarrini's engineering company, Societa Autostar, was commissioned to pattern a V-12 engine for a GT car to always be built by another not satisfied Ferrari customer, Ferruccio Lamborghini. Lamborghini considered the resulting engine to get too highly strung, and ordered that this be detuned.
Bizzarrini worked since 1964 regarding Iso Rivolta and formulated three models: Iso Rivolta GT, Iso Grifo both A3L along with A3C versions. His work was to formulate a pressed steel body chassis for Iso vehicles. Renzo Rivolta hired him as consultant towards the Iso Gordon GT project which became the Iso Rivolta GT. The Iso Gordon GT prototype was created from the Gordon-Keeble. The Gordon Keeble GT has been designed in 1960 by means of Giugiaro. Bizzarrini tested the automobile and was impressed because of the powerful V8 Corvette engine plus the rear De Dion tube for the GT:'Rivolta had me test the prototype. I liked its De Dion pipe and especially the Corvette powerplant. It was the very first time that I had driven just one. It was superior in order to Ferrari's engines, having the same power but that has a more immediate throttle reply. 'The Iso Rivolta GT ended up being a Giugiaro designed some seater with beautiful physique, speed, comfort and handling, and was a successful car for ISO along with 799 units sold. Powered by a 327ci Chevrolet Corvette V8 engine that has a classic De Dion backside suspension design with pushed steel monocoque bodywork over pressed steel frame chassis. Unveiled to the push in 1963, production continued until 1970.The Iso Grifo A3L seemed to be a monstrous idea to get a super coupé, the L coming coming from Lusso. The result of the actual brilliant Giugiaro and Bizzarrini doing the job together, it was based using a shortened Iso Rivolta GT chassis and was debuted in the 1963 Turin show. The Grifo epitomised your 1960s Italian style with its handsome low and broad handmade bodywork. It was the quickest production car tested through Autocar Magazine in 1966 which has a top speed of one hundred sixty mph (260 km/h). Later versions of the particular Grifo were powered by the big block Chevrolet Corvette 435 bhp (324 kW; 441 PS) engine. These 90 handbuilt units are distinguishable because of the raised "pagoda style" details bonnet. Some of these Iso Grifo 7 Litri devices were rebuilt later with even bigger engines.
1965 BIZZARRINI P538 SPYDER BARCHETTA Side Profile 180540
The thought of Bizzarrini was to make use of the 3AL cars for rivalry. The competition versions from the Grifo were named Iso Grifo A3C, C for Competizione or maybe Corsa. A new lightweight riveted aluminium lightweight body was designed and built by Piero Drogo. It was an strongly designed machine, oriented to endurance backgrounds. It uses normal ISO underpinnings even so the engine was moved further last the chassis frame versus Grifo A3L, protruding well into your driver's cabin, fitted with hot cameras and fed by 4 big Weber carburettors, giving more than four hundred bhp (298 kW; 406 PS).
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Around 29 A3C sport cars were built beneath ISO name. Five of these 30 cars were bodied within plastic/fiberglass by Piero Drogo from Carrozzeria Sports Cars throughout Modena. A3Cs were widely ran. Some cars entered this 1964 and 1965 Le Mans 24 hour, 1965 Nürburgring 1000 in addition to 1965 Sebring. It achieved a The Mans class win in both years along with a 9th overall in 1965 with no factory support. A3Cs were one on the fastest cars on LeMans' Mulsanne Directly in both years.
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