WSC60 Iso Grifo A3/C

3d Model by: Velo, enhanced by DrDoomslab. Thanks to his test-driving and engineering skills, Giotto Bizzarrini was hired by Ferrari in 1957. Here he first fine-tuned existing models and eventually was given the responsibility to develop a new line of GT racers. He was busy developing the 250 GTO, when he together with a number of other key people left the company in the infamous 'palace revolution' of 1961. Bizzarrini started as a consultant for Count Volpi for whom he created the 'Breadvan' Ferrari and for Feruccio Lamborghini for whom he designed the V12 engine that would power Lamborghini sports cars for decades to come. In 1962, he teamed up with Renzo Rivolta, who was turning his Iso company into a manufacturer of sports cars. Bizzarrini's first job was to help develop a sophisticated platform chassis for the 'Iso Rivolta' 2+2 coupe. He was then commissioned to turn the Iso Grifo A3/L two-seater into a race winning machine; this was most certainly more up his ally. Pretty much independent from Iso, he conceived the exceptionally low A3/C that was an Iso Grifo in name only. One of Bizzarrini's priorities had always been to mount the engine as far back in the chassis for a