17 Facts About Bizzarrini

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Bizzarrini built a small number of highly developed and advanced sport and racing automobiles before failing in 1969: in 2020, it was announced that the name had been acquired by Pegasus brands, together with plans to restart production.

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2.

Attempts to bring back the Bizzarrini name resulted in a number of concept cars in the 2000s.

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3.

Bizzarrini's father was a rich landowner who came from a family with strong roots in Tuscany and the city of Livorno.

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4.

Bizzarrini graduated as an engineer in the University of Pisa in 1953.

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5.

Bizzarrini began working for Ferrari in 1957, eventually becoming controller of experimental, Sports and GT car development.

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6.

Bizzarrini worked at Ferrari as a developer, designer, test driver, and chief engineer for five years.

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7.

Bizzarrini was fired by Ferrari during the "palace revolt" of 1961.

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8.

Bizzarrini worked since 1964 for Iso Rivolta and developed three models: Iso Rivolta GT, Iso Grifo both A3L and A3C versions.

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9.

Bizzarrini's work was to develop a pressed steel frame chassis for Iso cars.

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10.

Bizzarrini tested the car and was impressed by the powerful V8 Corvette engine and the rear De Dion tube suspension used for the GT.

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11.

The result of Giugiaro and Bizzarrini working together, it was based on a shortened Iso Rivolta GT chassis and was debuted at the 1963 Turin show.

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12.

Giotto Bizzarrini was a dedicated race car designer and builder.

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13.

Likely one of the sources of disagreement between Renzo Rivolta and Giotto Bizzarrini was Bizzarrini's desire to build race cars and Renzo Rivolta's desire to build high quality GT cars and family transportation cars.

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14.

Rino Argento helped Bizzarrini manage the race cars during that terrible week in June 1965 at Sebring.

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15.

Bizzarrini's proposal was more aggressive and attractive in appearance, like a small 5300 GT.

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16.

In 1990, Bizzarrini was involved in the design of a one-off supercar model.

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17.

The Scuderia Bizzarrini built this sport barchetta in close collaboration with Leone Martellucci of University La Sapienza of Roma.

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