{"id":35088,"date":"2019-10-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/bizzarrini-5300-gt-strada-restored\/"},"modified":"2021-10-14T08:34:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T08:34:47","slug":"bizzarrini-5300-gt-strada-restored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/bizzarrini-5300-gt-strada-restored\/","title":{"rendered":"Bizzarrini 5300 GT Strada restored"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The automotive history book would probably only be half as thick and interesting if there were no Italian sports cars in it. Beside the well-known companies like Maserati, Alfa Romeo and Ferrari there are the small brands like Pagani and Siata, short Italian episodes like the time when Bugatti made cars near Modena and of course the wild stories about small series manufacturers, which only appeared for a limited time and more or less glamorously sank into oblivion. One of these brands is Bizzarrini, founded in 1962 by Giotto Bizzarrini. His professional career began in 1954 at Alfa Romeo, from where he moved to Ferrari in 1957, where he was involved in the development of the 250 GTO, among other things. In 1961 he, Carlo Chiti and three other leading engineers got into a bitter dispute with company boss Enzo Ferrari after he had dismissed the sales manager Girolami Gardini. All five also left the company. Together they founded the company ‘Automobili Turismo e Sport’, short A.T.S. (depending on the source also ATS). Their goal was to develop their own road sports car with at least the same driving dynamics as the Ferrari models of the same time.

Disagreements among the engineers led Bizzarrini and Gardini to leave A.T.S. again. Giotto Bizzarrini developed the Ferrari 250 GT SWB with Breadvan bodywork for Count Volpi in his own company ‘Autostar’, which he renamed ‘Societ\u00e0 Prototipo Bizzarrini’ in 1964 and ‘Automobili Bizzarrini SpA’ in 1965. When he left A.T.S., he was already in close contact with Renzo Rivolta, who wanted to bring his company, which previously was only specialised in refrigerators and cooling systems, into the automotive industry. After Rivolta successfully sold the license for the Iso Isetta to BMW, he wanted to build sports cars. Bizzarrini developed the sheet steel chassis for the Iso Rivolta 300 and shortly afterwards the tubular steel frame for the Iso Grifo A3\/L. On this basis Bizzarrini also developed the racing variant A3\/C, where the C stood for ‘Corsa’ (race track) and the L for ‘Lusso’ (luxury). Renzo Rivolta had however only little interest in motorsports and also had a dispute with Giotto Bizzarrini over the use of his name, so that also this cooperation was separated again. Bizzarini kept the A3\/C design and offered it with slight conversions as the Bizzarrini 5300 GT.<\/p>\n\n\n

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