Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Official 250 GTO POOL

[francis newman (francis]

Doug

Bizzarrini was indeed the original engineer but along with 7 other senior 
managers he was fired by Enzo in late 61 before the car was finalised. It still 
had quite a few problems. Mauro Forghieri was given the job of sorting it. The 
body was an "evolutiuon" and wasn't "designed" as such but was the result of a 
collaboration between reh engineers and Scaglietti, the body builder as they 
yested it. 

But it just turned out to be beautiful as only the Italians can probably do.

The 64 body was designed by Pininfarina with more aerodynamic input and was 
more efficient but probably not so pretty.

Yes. Bizzarrini went to Iso Grifo after Ferrari, and then to his own compoany 
in 1964 and built some wonderful looking cars with basically Corvette engines. 
I have seen some of them racing and they look and sound just great

F
 
On 2 Jul 2014, at 16:25, Doug & Terri wrote:

> Brian notes “Well a GTO isn't all that pretty from some angles, and has never 
> won LeMans.“
>  
> Didn’t the 250 GTO et al designer, Bizzarrini, start up his own company – 
> Bizzarrini and drop a 327 Corvette engine in his swoopy 2 place car?  I saw a 
> couple of them at the Monterey Historics.  I believe they’re priced out about 
> 650,00 to 800,000.  Far cry from millions and millions.
>  
> DOUG
>  
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