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Bizzarrini Utes. p. A. was an Italian automotive manufacturer inside the 1960s founded by ex- Alfa Romeo, Ferrari and ISO engineer, Giotto Bizzarrini. The company built only a few highly developed and innovative sport and racing cars before failing in 1969. Notable models include the particular 5300 GT Strada and the P538S.Originally Prototipi Bizzarrini ohydrates. r. l., the name was altered to Bizzarrini S. p. A. in 1966. The Bizzarrini marque has become revived with several concept cars in the particular 2000s.Giotto Bizzarrini was blessed in Livorno, Italy in 1926. His father was the rich landowner who got their start in a family with powerful roots in Tuscany and also the city of Livorno. His grandfather, also named Giotto Bizzarrini, was a biologist who had worked with Guglielmo Marconi on the inventions, especially the radio, following which one of the Livorno Library sections was named The Bizzarrini Catalogue.Bizzarrini graduated as an engineer from the University of Pisa within 1953. He taught briefly previous to joining Alfa Romeo in 1954. He worked for Alfa Romeo through 1954 to 1957. He began working regarding Ferrari in 1957, eventually becoming controller of experimental, Sports and GT vehicle development. He worked at Ferrari like a developer, designer, test driver, and chief engineer regarding five years. His developments there involved the Ferrari 250 TR, the Ferrari 250 GT SWB (Limited Wheelbase Berlinetta or Berlinetta Passo Corto), and the 1962 Ferrari two hundred and fifty GTO.

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

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Bizzarrini worked since 1964 pertaining to Iso Rivolta and formulated three models: Iso Rivolta GT, Iso Grifo both A3L as well as A3C versions. His work was to produce a pressed steel body chassis for Iso autos. Renzo Rivolta hired him as consultant for the Iso Gordon GT task 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 by means of Giugiaro. Bizzarrini tested the automobile and was impressed by the powerful V8 Corvette engine and also the rear De Dion tube used by the GT:'Rivolta had me test the prototype. I liked its De Dion tubing and especially the Corvette engine. It was the first time I had driven a single. It was superior to help Ferrari's engines, having the same power but which has a more immediate throttle response. 'The Iso Rivolta GT seemed to be a Giugiaro designed 4 seater with beautiful system, speed, comfort and handling, and was a productive car for ISO with 799 units sold. Powered by a 327ci Chevrolet Corvette V8 engine using a classic De Dion raise suspension design with hard pressed steel monocoque bodywork in excess of pressed steel frame framework. Unveiled to the push in 1963, production continued until 1970.The Iso Grifo A3L has been a monstrous idea for the super coupé, the L coming by Lusso. The result of this brilliant Giugiaro and Bizzarrini operating together, it was based over a shortened Iso Rivolta GT framework and was debuted with the 1963 Turin show. The Grifo epitomised the 1960s Italian style with its handsome low and large handmade bodywork. It was the quickest production car tested by means of Autocar Magazine in 1966 using a top speed of 160 mph (260 km/h). Later versions of the particular Grifo were powered by the big block Chevrolet Corvette 435 bhp (324 kW; 441 PS) motor. These 90 handbuilt units are distinguishable through the raised "pagoda style" details bonnet. Some of these Iso Grifo 7 Litri items were rebuilt later with even bigger engines.

1965 Bizzarrini A3C Is 100 Percent Restored and Ready to Race

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

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