Carey Loftin and his three Bizzarrinis

I was driving on Lankershim Ave, bout 40 years ago and I passed a bar and saw a green Bizzarrini parked by the curb, I went inside and asked who the guy was with the Bitz and was introduced to Carey Loftin, stunt man, who drove the Mustang in Bullitt,the Challenger in Vanishing Point,etc.

Anyway I think this green one,a horrid emerald green, might have been a fiberglass one. He also had a pale yellow one which I later bought for a client when he was retired in Huntington Beach. And he had a dark red one. I bought the yellow one as a non runner
but he told me he had sold the green one earlier after he had a fuel line break en route to somewhere and wrapped it in cardboard in a field fix and it caught fire and cracked the windscreen and he was worried he would never find a replacement windscreen so he sold the car for $4000. I was wondering if this story was heard by anyone else and what year the green car was sold? Incidentally Carey told a lot of great stories on how he told off this big star or that great director. And one time in some small town where they were filming, some local girl saw him driving that car and glommed onto him and married him...hey, car like that makes a Furrari look, well,dainty..

 

I think there were as many as three Bitz's in Max's shop at any one time, I remember Carey told me the emerald green one had a different rear suspension than the other ones, He also told me of losing the brakes on a car (maybe a Bitz) and having to slow down by rubbing the wall on the freeway--I bet that made some bodyman's whole day! One of his Bitz's is also in the movie The Love Bug in a racetrack scene, Max of course was a race driver and would drive the car. When I visited Carey in Huntington Beach he also had a Pantera but looked contemptfully toward it compared to the Bitz's he owned

Still like to hear what he dumped the car with fire damage for,,,