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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 few highly developed and advanced sport and racing automobiles before failing in 1969. Notable models include the particular 5300 GT Strada along with the P538S.Originally Prototipi Bizzarrini azines. r. l., the name was transformed 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 born in Livorno, Italy in 1926. His father was the rich landowner who came from a family with solid roots in Tuscany plus 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 with the Livorno Library sections had been named The Bizzarrini Collection.Bizzarrini graduated as an engineer inside the University of Pisa with 1953. He taught briefly before joining Alfa Romeo throughout 1954. He worked for Alfa Romeo from 1954 to 1957. He began working with regard to Ferrari in 1957, eventually becoming controller regarding experimental, Sports and GT vehicle development. He worked at Ferrari to be a developer, designer, test driver, and chief engineer regarding five years. His developments there involved 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 ended up being fired by Ferrari during the "palace revolt" of 1961. He became part of Automobili Turismo e Sport (ATS)), a company started by the ex-Ferrari engineers to develop a Formula 1 single seater plus 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 update a Ferrari 250 GT SWB, with chassis number #2819GT to GTO specifications. This resulted in your Ferrari 250 GT SWB Drogo often known as the "Breadvan".Bizzarrini's engineering company, Societa Autostar, was commissioned to pattern a V-12 engine for a GT car to possibly be built by another not satisfied 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 regarding Iso Rivolta and produced three models: Iso Rivolta GT, Iso Grifo both A3L and A3C versions. His work was to formulate a pressed steel framework chassis for Iso autos. Renzo Rivolta hired him as consultant towards Iso Gordon GT venture which became the Iso Rivolta GT. The Iso Gordon GT prototype was created from the Gordon-Keeble. The Gordon Keeble GT ended up being designed in 1960 by means of Giugiaro. Bizzarrini tested the car and was impressed from the powerful V8 Corvette engine plus the rear De Dion tube for the GT:'Rivolta got me test the prototype. I liked its De Dion pipe and especially the Corvette serps. It was the new I had driven just one. It was superior to be able to Ferrari's engines, having the same power but with a more immediate throttle reply. 'The Iso Rivolta GT ended up being a Giugiaro designed several seater with beautiful body, speed, comfort and handling, and was a prosperous car for ISO along with 799 units sold. Powered by a 327ci Chevrolet Corvette V8 engine which has a classic De Dion backside suspension design with hard pressed steel monocoque bodywork more than pressed steel frame chassis. Unveiled to the click in 1963, production continued until 1970.The Iso Grifo A3L has been a monstrous idea for a super coupé, the L coming coming from Lusso. The result of this brilliant Giugiaro and Bizzarrini working together, it was based on a shortened Iso Rivolta GT framework and was debuted in the 1963 Turin show. The Grifo epitomised the particular 1960s Italian style which consists of handsome low and vast handmade bodywork. It was the quickest production car tested simply by Autocar Magazine in 1966 with 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 with the raised "pagoda style" information bonnet. Some of these Iso Grifo 7 Litri units were rebuilt later with a great deal larger engines.

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The thought of Bizzarrini was to make use of the 3AL cars for rivalry. The competition versions with the Grifo were named Iso Grifo A3C, C for Competizione or even Corsa. A new lightweight riveted lightweight alloy body was designed and also built by Piero Drogo. It was an more boldly designed machine, oriented to endurance contests. It uses normal ISO underpinnings however the engine was moved further back in the chassis frame versus Grifo A3L, protruding well into this driver's cabin, fitted with hot cams and fed by 4 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 the ISO name. Five of these twenty nine cars were bodied with plastic/fiberglass by Piero Drogo from Carrozzeria Sports Cars in Modena. A3Cs were widely ran. 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 as well as a 9th overall in 1965 without factory support. A3Cs were one from the fastest cars on LeMans' Mulsanne Direct in both years.

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