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Bizzarrini S. p. A. was an Italian automotive manufacturer within the 1960s founded by ex- Alfa Romeo, Ferrari and ISO electrical engineer, Giotto Bizzarrini. The company built a small number of highly developed and advanced sport and racing autos before failing in 1969. Notable models include the actual 5300 GT Strada along with the P538S.Originally Prototipi Bizzarrini s. r. l., the name was changed to Bizzarrini S. p. A. in 1966. The Bizzarrini marque continues to be revived with quite a few concept cars in the 2000s.Giotto Bizzarrini was delivered in Livorno, Italy in 1926. His father was some sort of rich landowner who came from a family with powerful roots in Tuscany along with the city of Livorno. His grandfather, also named Giotto Bizzarrini, was a biologist who had caused Guglielmo Marconi on his / her inventions, especially the radio, following which one on the Livorno Library sections ended up being named The Bizzarrini Catalogue.Bizzarrini graduated as an engineer within the University of Pisa inside 1953. He taught briefly before joining Alfa Romeo inside 1954. He worked for Alfa Romeo from 1954 to 1957. He began working intended for Ferrari in 1957, eventually becoming controller of experimental, Sports and GT auto development. He worked at Ferrari as a developer, designer, test driver, and chief engineer with regard to five years. His developments there bundled the Ferrari 250 TR, the Ferrari 250 GT SWB (Limited Wheelbase Berlinetta or Berlinetta Passo Corto), and the 1962 Ferrari three hundred GTO.

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Bizzarrini has been fired by Ferrari over the "palace revolt" of 1961. He became part of Automobili Turismo e Game (ATS)), a company started through 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 fiscal backers, Count Giovanni Volpi, owner of Scuderia Serenissima, hired Bizzarrini to up grade a Ferrari 250 GT SWB, with chassis number #2819GT in order to GTO specifications. This resulted in the particular Ferrari 250 GT SWB Drogo also called the "Breadvan".Bizzarrini's engineering company, Societa Autostar, was commissioned to design a V-12 engine for a GT car to end up being built by another dissatisfied Ferrari customer, Ferruccio Lamborghini. Lamborghini considered the resulting engine being too highly strung, and ordered that the idea be detuned.

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Bizzarrini worked since 1964 regarding Iso Rivolta and created three models: Iso Rivolta GT, Iso Grifo both A3L along with A3C versions. His work was in order to develop a pressed steel framework chassis for Iso cars. Renzo Rivolta hired him as consultant for the Iso Gordon GT project which became the Iso Rivolta GT. The Iso Gordon GT prototype originated from the Gordon-Keeble. The Gordon Keeble GT was designed in 1960 through Giugiaro. Bizzarrini tested the auto and was impressed by the powerful V8 Corvette engine plus the rear De Dion tube useful for the GT:'Rivolta received me test the prototype. I liked its De Dion conduit and especially the Corvette engine. It was the very first time I had driven 1. It was superior 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 human body, speed, comfort and handling, and was a productive car for ISO together with 799 units sold. Powered by a 327ci Chevrolet Corvette V8 engine having a classic De Dion backside suspension design with pushed steel monocoque bodywork over pressed steel frame framework. Unveiled to the click 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 particular brilliant Giugiaro and Bizzarrini operating together, it was based on the shortened Iso Rivolta GT framework and was debuted on the 1963 Turin show. The Grifo epitomised this 1960s Italian style which consists of handsome low and broad handmade bodywork. It was the best production car tested by Autocar Magazine in 1966 that has 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) powerplant. These 90 handbuilt units are distinguishable because of the raised "pagoda style" info bonnet. Some of these Iso Grifo 7 Litri products were rebuilt later with a whole lot larger engines.

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The idea of Bizzarrini was to operate the 3AL cars for competition. The competition versions from the Grifo were named Iso Grifo A3C, C for Competizione as well as Corsa. A new lightweight riveted lightweight alloy body was designed and built by Piero Drogo. It was an boldy designed machine, oriented to endurance contests. It uses normal ISO underpinnings however the engine was moved further back the chassis frame compared to the Grifo A3L, protruding well into this 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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All around 29 A3C sport cars were built beneath ISO name. Five of these twenty nine cars were bodied with plastic/fiberglass by Piero Drogo on Carrozzeria Sports Cars in Modena. A3Cs were widely ran. Some cars entered the actual 1964 and 1965 Le Mans 24 hour, 1965 Nürburgring 1000 in addition to 1965 Sebring. It achieved a Le Mans class win in both years and also a 9th overall in 1965 without the need of factory support. A3Cs were one in the fastest cars on LeMans' Mulsanne Direct in both years.

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