Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Official 250 GTO POOL

[Doug & Terri (dnt]

Enlightening Francis - thank you
DOUG

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From: francis newman [mailto:francis [at] fntn.co.uk] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 2, 2014 10:21 AM
To: Doug & Terri
Cc: francis newman; 'The FerrariList'
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Official 250 GTO POOL

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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