Bizzarrini Utes. p. A. was an Italian automotive manufacturer inside the 1960s founded by past Alfa Romeo, Ferrari and ISO electrical engineer, Giotto Bizzarrini. The company built only a few highly developed and sophisticated sport and racing automobiles before failing in 1969. Notable models include your 5300 GT Strada and also the P538S.Originally Prototipi Bizzarrini s. r. l., the name was altered to Bizzarrini S. p. A. in 1966. The Bizzarrini marque may be revived with many concept cars in the 2000s.Giotto Bizzarrini was created in Livorno, Italy in 1926. His father was the rich landowner who got their start in a family with robust 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 their inventions, especially the radio, following which one of the Livorno Library sections had been named The Bizzarrini Selection.Bizzarrini graduated as an engineer within the University of Pisa throughout 1953. He taught briefly previous to joining Alfa Romeo inside 1954. He worked for Alfa Romeo via 1954 to 1957. He began working intended for Ferrari in 1957, eventually becoming controller of experimental, Sports and GT car development. He worked at Ferrari being a developer, designer, test driver, and chief engineer pertaining to five years. His developments there involved the Ferrari 250 TR, the Ferrari 250 GT SWB (Small Wheelbase Berlinetta or Berlinetta Passo Corto), and the 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO.
1967 BIZZARRINI 5300GT Strada
Bizzarrini had been fired by Ferrari in the "palace revolt" of 1961. He became part connected with Automobili Turismo e Game (ATS)), a company started with the ex-Ferrari engineers to develop a Formula 1 single seater as well as a GT sport car, the A. T. S. Serenissima.One of ATS's financial backers, Count Giovanni Volpi, owner of Scuderia Serenissima, hired Bizzarrini to upgrade a Ferrari 250 GT SWB, with chassis number #2819GT to GTO specifications. This resulted in the actual Ferrari 250 GT SWB Drogo also referred to as the "Breadvan".Bizzarrini's engineering company, Societa Autostar, was commissioned to style a V-12 engine for any GT car to become built by another dissatisfied Ferrari customer, Ferruccio Lamborghini. Lamborghini considered the resulting engine to become too highly strung, and ordered that the item be detuned.
Bizzarrini worked since 1964 regarding Iso Rivolta and developed three models: Iso Rivolta GT, Iso Grifo both A3L along with A3C versions. His work was to produce a pressed steel shape chassis for Iso automobiles. Renzo Rivolta hired him as consultant for the Iso Gordon GT challenge 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 by means of Giugiaro. Bizzarrini tested the auto and was impressed because of the powerful V8 Corvette engine and also the rear De Dion tube useful for the GT:'Rivolta got me test the prototype. I liked its De Dion conduit and especially the Corvette serps. It was the first time I had driven one. It was superior for you to Ferrari's engines, having the same power but that has a more immediate throttle result. 'The Iso Rivolta GT has been a Giugiaro designed four seater with beautiful body, speed, comfort and handling, and was a profitable car for ISO with 799 units sold. Powered by a 327ci Chevrolet Corvette V8 engine which has a classic De Dion rear suspension design with forced steel monocoque bodywork more than pressed steel frame chassis. Unveiled to the press in 1963, production continued until 1970.The Iso Grifo A3L ended up being a monstrous idea for a super coupé, the L coming coming from Lusso. The result of the brilliant Giugiaro and Bizzarrini operating together, it was based using a shortened Iso Rivolta GT framework and was debuted at the 1963 Turin show. The Grifo epitomised the 1960s Italian style having its handsome low and vast handmade bodywork. It was the best production car tested by Autocar Magazine in 1966 using a top speed of 160 mph (260 km/h). Later versions of the particular Grifo were powered by way of big block Chevrolet Corvette 435 bhp (324 kW; 441 PS) motor. These 90 handbuilt units are distinguishable from the raised "pagoda style" details bonnet. Some of these Iso Grifo 7 Litri devices were rebuilt later with a whole lot larger engines.
1965 Bizzarrini 5300 GT. RM Auctions London Conceptcarz
Thinking about Bizzarrini was to use the 3AL cars for opposition. The competition versions of the Grifo were named Iso Grifo A3C, C for Competizione or maybe Corsa. A new lightweight riveted lightweight alloy body was designed and also built by Piero Drogo. It was an strongly designed machine, oriented to endurance backgrounds. It uses normal ISO underpinnings but the engine was moved further the government financial aid the chassis frame compared to the Grifo A3L, protruding well into your driver's cabin, fitted with hot cameras and fed by four 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 30 cars were bodied with plastic/fiberglass by Piero Drogo with Carrozzeria Sports Cars in Modena. A3Cs were widely competed. Some cars entered the 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 with no factory support. A3Cs were one with the fastest cars on LeMans' Mulsanne Immediately in both years.
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