Iso Bizzarrini – The remarkable history of A3/C 0222
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Iso Bizzarrini – The remarkable history of A3/C 0222
By Richard Heseltine
A fascinating story of the last and most successful of the Iso AC/3 Grifo race cars from the fabulous period of sports car racing in the mid-1960s.
The A3/C was the creation of Giotto Bizzarrini, the engineer who developed the famed Ferrari 250 GTO. In the short but varied racing career of the Iso Bizzarrini ‘222’ showed itself to be one of the world’s fastest racing sports and GT cars. The Iso Bizzarrini reached a top speed on the Mulsanne straight at Le Mans of nearly 190mph. However bettered only by the 7-litre Ford GT Mk II.
Iso Bizzarrini – The remarkable history of A3/C 0222 celebrates the life of ‘222’. As a result of the against-the-odds efforts of Bizzarrini. A genius with the ambition to produce the best GT race car of its era.This is the story of the car that won its class and finished in ninth place overall against formidable opposition in the Le Mans 24 Hours of 1965.
About Richard Heseltine
Journalist and author specialising in classic and contemporary performance cars. A former staff member of Classic & Sports Car and Motor Sport, for whom he remains a regular contributor, he has also written extensively for Octane, Classic Cars and Auto Italia in addition to newspapers such as The Guardian. He has written several books on subjects as diverse as the British specialist sports car industry and coachbuilt Ferraris. He has also owned, driven and pushed countless Italian classic cars over the past 25 years.
