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Grifo 7 Liter for sale

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  1. IsoBizzaGrifo

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    this is 413 isn't it? The chassis that was completed in 77 by ennezeta but restamped as a 67. the RM page shows it as a 72 though, so not sure what's going on with that. if it is 413 it has an interesting and questionable history.
     
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    RM does not have the catalog description up as of yet.. but list a chassis number of 223.


    This is 413 (reported to have been stamped in the factory), post factory assembly, and re-numbered;but is a 7 Liter only by modification,with a bunch of other stuff added in.
    Actually a very beautiful car. I saw it at the Quail, Pebble Beach in 2012, and it was for sale then too.
     
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    it was for sale for quite a while at autosprint and then by the owner prior to that so whomever owns it now hasn't had it for long.

    I thought 413 was restamped 225 but maybe it was 223 as RM says
     
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    Grifo 413 was unfinished at the time the factory closed, but the chassis was stamped.

    Roberto Negri a factory employee completed the car in 1977 -78 and marketed it as the Ennezeta complete with US safety bumpers and a series two nose.

    In 1987 Roberto Negri sold the car to Salvatore Diamonte and the nose was converted to the older series one. He also replaced the SBC with a big block engine, and modified the interior.

    Note that the car has the late solid fixed wind wing and the full chrome around the side windows these are features only found on the last 10-12 cars built. 413 was then re stamped 223225 and marketed as the 7 litre prototype.

    The car has many interesting non factory details that include Miura style side vents, a Rivolta GT style hood, big block engine, non standard interior, stainless roll bar like cover.

    The car is not the 7 litre prototype but is the last Grifo stamped by the factory and is a uniquely designed concept that integrated many of Iso's best designs.


    Note: The original Grifo #223 was completed Dec. 5th 1968

    The first 7L built (not the Prototype #201)was #223, completed by the ISO factory August 28th, 1968.

    Picture attached is 413 finished as finished by Roberto Negri, marketed as the Ennezeta, there were also a few Ennezeta Lele's made.

    Picture attached the real Grifo 7 liter Prototype #201 Note the larger outside headlights no other Grifo had these.

    This car brings mixed feelings with the conversion vs it being the last Grifo built, but it is always welcomed to all the Iso Bizzarrini events and is sure to draw a crowd.
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    Older nose much better. Beautiful car
     
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    Thnx, they are gorgeous. I had the Hot Wheels version :)

    Did they ever build a roadster?
     
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    No Can Am's?
     
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    The silver big block car is a Can Am
     
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    Where is this car now?
     
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    Interesting...anyone know the buyer? I have to imagine they don't know the full history of this car or maybe it was just auction fever and they didn't care.
     
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    Looks fab regardless.
     
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    But it is the last Grifo stamped at the factory and is one of the best looking Grifo's although not original.

    413 has sold two different times at high market, so it has a history of holding it's value even with the modifications. Interesting.
     
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    yeah I agree, it does look fantastic and for some that matters more than originality of the car so to each their own...
     
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    Recently at the RM auction in Amelia Island an Iso Grifo set the world record price for a Grifo sold at a public auction ($440,000). This Iso Grifo was originally chassis No. 413 and at some point the chassis number was changed to No. 223. One has to wonder why this was done but also where is the original No. 223?

    The rest is here...The Lost Iso Grifo No. 223 Is Found!
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    I heard there is a Porsche 902GTS finished with spare parts including spare chassis after production of the originals stopped. Ford in refcent years sent three unfinished GT40 chassis to England to be built out as GT40s. A guy that worked for Studebaker ordered all the parts for a 300SL gullwing when STudebaker was tied in with Mercedes and built a gullwing "off the books."

    So the precedent for finishing a car left uniinished when production stopped has been established.

    I can't figure out why they changed the number but surmise a '72 car with '72 regulations was a lot easier to get in the country than a '74 car.

    Also you can't blame them for fitting different interior, maybe the original interior suppliers didn't have the patterns and material anymore.

    As for converting to 7 liters, they probably thought Americans want a 7 liter more. So in the end I say it's too bad it's not as it would have been built out originally but when the clock strikes midnight on the production of a car, you're lucky to squeeze out another car later on out of the remaining pieces. It seems by the price rise at each auction it is accepted by the car world.
     
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    WTF are you trying to say? It was a finished car.
     
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