Iso Grifo!!!!!!!!!!

[Wouter Melissen]

I know, that it used the 327 vette but they used styling cues form the vette

Are you blind?

[austin healey]

are you joking a vette vs. a grifo it would be a blowout and by the way the most expensive ferrari was a 1958 250 testarossa v12

[austin healey]

are you?

[austin healey]

let me tell you something sei I did know all that but the vette was lighter and smaller with just as big an engine and, now dont ge me wrong i love the grifo more than the vette it is nicer but the vette creams it in a race.

[Wouter Melissen]

are you joking a vette vs. a grifo it would be a blowout and by the way the most expensive ferrari was a 1958 250 testarossa v12

You are wrong.

let me tell you something sei I did know all that but the vette was lighter and smaller with just as big an engine and, now dont ge me wrong i love the grifo more than the vette it is nicer but the vette creams it in a race.

You are wrong.

[Ferrer]

Both were presented in '63, so there's not much chance of one copying the other.

let me tell you something sei I did know all that but the vette was lighter and smaller with just as big an engine and, now dont ge me wrong i love the grifo more than the vette it is nicer but the vette creams it in a race.

That simply isn't the point of the car.

[drakkie]

That simply isn't the point of the car.

Nor is it of any car the point of a car is transportation only some do it in a fancy way

[larslindroth]

well mister healey

In another thread we have learned not to take your postings too seriously
Whith this remark you prove that you have very little knowlidge about your classics or are the grapes sour since you are not able to buy one once you will have mastered driving ?

Let me enlighten you:

The Iso Grifo was not based on the Corvette
Yes it did use a Corvette engine (later Ford) which were modified to make it more reliable since europeans and specially the germans reved the engine more on the "autobahn" and the GM V8's couldn't cope with those continious high revs

As for the chassis: this was developed by Giotto Bizzarini, the best engineer ever to work for Ferrari before he walked out with the "palice" revolution.
He was responsible u.o. for the most expensive Ferrari ever :the 250GTO
He also did such cars as the 250 "breadvan" , an ugly car but darn quick !

After the Iso project he was responsible for the famous Lamborghini V12 engine that graced such cars as the 400 and Miura, the best sounding engine ever.

It was this brilliant engineer that developed a chassis that was able to corner at (high) speeds, something the contempory Corvette was never able to do

He went one step further and proved it by producing a racing version which he raced under his own name at such events as Le Mans (Bizzarini 5300 . Iso Grifo A3/C)

I do not know where you get the idea that that the contempory Corvette top speed was higher but the top speed of the Grifo varies ,depending on the engine and axle, from 240 km/h to 300 km/h (!) timed on the autostrada between milano and turin and all this while still making it good to handle at these speeds
I want to see a standard contempory Corvette see do that.

To top it all off the body was designed by the famous Bertone design house and specificly by Marcello Gandini who was also responsible for e.g. the Lamborghini Countach.
He managed to make it a spectacular timeless design which still makes it very collectable. Isn't this why you wanted it at the first place ??

So you see my friend, it is not at all based on the Corvette , it just uses its modified power source
I would hardly call a Armani suit based on a Sears suit just because it might have the same thread manufacturer....

Many Formula One and GT race car drivers owned as their personal car Bizzarini creations. The late Formula One driver Ronnie Peterson from Sweden was one of them. He chose the Bizzarini 5300 for it's amazing handling capabilities and he sure was picky since he was wheeling the Lotus Formula One cars on a daily basis.

Lars

[henk4]

Many Formula One and GT race car drivers owned as their personal car Bizzarini creations. The late Formula One driver Ronnie Peterson from Sweden was one of them. He chose the Bizzarini 5300 for it's amazing handling capabilities and he sure was picky since he was wheeling the Lotus Formula One cars on a daily basis.

Lars

Hi Lars, welcome to UCP. Somehow your name sounds familiar. Are you somewhere active in the automotive scene? (or do you post on other fora)

[talenti33]

It's so nice photos.

[ulimator]

Let me add some: 1996 Iso Griffo 96 Prototype (a mock-up I think) !

[Ferrer]

Let's say it isn't quite as good as the original...