BIZZARRINI, Livorno, Italy, 1964-1969


The company was born thanks to the great love for sports cars of its founder - an engineer from Livorno - Giotto Bizzarrini. While still a student, he began working at the research center of Alfa Romeo. Three years later he switched to Ferrari, where he participated in the development of the sports coupe “GTD” and models with a 3-liter engine Testa Rossa.
In 1961, together with Carlo Chiti, he accepted the invitation from ATS and built a race car, but the collaboration ended there. A year later, Bizzarrini left ATS and opened his own business. For the production of automobiles and engines, he founded Autostar in Livorno, whose customers were Iso-Rivolta and Lamborghini. By order of the latter, Bizzarrini produced a V-shaped 12-cylinder engine.
In 1964, the company was named Societa Prototipi Bizzarini. By order of Iso and in cooperation with the body company Bertone, she assembled sports cars of the Iso Grifo A-3L and Iso Grifo A-3C models. The most interesting fact in the Bizzarrini biography was a demonstrative break with Iso, while the Grifo machines he created were renamed the Bizzarrini Strada GT-5300. They had fiberglass bodies and were equipped with 5.4-liter Chevrolet V8 engines with 365 or 450 hp. Later, the Spider-5300 convertible and the GT Sport with a centrally located power unit appeared.
Since 1966, the company became known as the Bizzarrini Joint Stock Company. She launched the GT Europe two-seat coupe on the FIAT-1500 passenger car chassis with a 4-cylinder 1.9-liter Opel engine. Three years later, the company ceased operations.
In 1995, the small company World Super Cars appeared in the United States. Giotto Bizzarrini is one of its founders. The company collects expensive sports cars with engines of 500 hp.

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