Cars
The Nostalgia of Forgotten Gods: Bizzarrini, Italy, 1964-1969
Giotto Bizzarrini was an Italian engineer who saw the car as a single whole, designing everything from the engine to the bodywork. He worked for Alfa Romeo and Ferrari before becoming a manufacturer himself, creating the Bizzarrini 5300 GT.
Giotto Bizzarrini became a brand – Bizzarrini – even before he became an engineer. In fact, the first of his cars, called simply “Macchinetta”, built with considerably avant-garde concepts in 1953, was nothing more than his degree thesis. A quick look is all it takes – only one was built and still exists – to understand that the most important thing for Bizzarrini was racing.
He was Italian, a native of Livorno in Tuscany, who considered the car as a single whole: designing the engine, optimizing weight distribution, building the chassis and even shaping the bodywork was all part of his unrestrained creativity that was his fortune and misfortune at the same time. His fortune was that he immediately stood out, first being hired by Alfa Romeo where he spent three years learning as much as he could, and then joining Ferrari at a very young age. The year was 1957 and his boss and colleague at the time was none other than that other well-known “Tuscan” called Carlo Chiti.
