Iso Grifo

Hey Ron, I have been into Iso's for a while now. They have become very hard to find in good condition and have several areas prone to rust. Mint condition cars are very expensive now and there is a big market with few cars. When the bizzarini got discoverd it pulled the Iso along in its wake, so better start saving. I find the design very attractive and you can mod them up like any corvette should you so choose. I have some old reprints of car mag articles, compliments of another very helpful board member, and could pass them along should you be interested. Drop me pm with your email address and let me know whether you are high speed or dial up.
There is an Iso/Bizzarini club with many very knowledgeable members who can help you out when you are ready to really start looking.

 

No 351 Clevelands in the Mangusta (not from the factory anyway). Only 289 and 302's.

 

The Intermeccanica Italia was a beautiful car built under a number of different names over the years. More info here:


http://www.sportscarmarket.com/profiles/2001/June/Etceterini/

 

Depends on how you look at a Cobra.

If it is an AC it is European.
If it is a Shelby it is US.

 

early TVR Griffith
AC 428
very late Mangusta (became Qvale's ?)
Some funny mid-engine AC's in the ?'80's-'90's?
Some Intermeccanica's
Iso Lele

all I can think of now.......

James

 

Iso Grifo is the best

 

The Grifo is a fine car but the engine was a Small block Chevy, not a Ford

 

funny i just found out a client of ours has one exactly the same as this one.

 

Lotus had a few Ford drivetrains and vise versa.

 

Oh and the Koenigsegg had a Ford motor in until recently...

 

Iso Grifo Le Mans.

427 Big Block OOO RAH

 

The Noble has a Ford Contour engine. The Saab Sonett has a v-4 Ford.

 

I had the pleasure of shooting a beautiful iso grifo at my friend's shop. Wonderful Italian styling with a throaty vette rumble. The best of both worlds.

cheers

kcv
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When I was a kid, my favorite Matchbox car was a Iso Grifo. I still have it.

 

The Grifo is basically the same car as a Bizzarini...

The engine was a Corvette V8
The Chassis designed by Bizzarini

Body by Drogo and others

No 2 are completely identical

they came in Alloy , Glass, and Metal

They won LeMan's GT devision in a Grifo that had Bizzarini badges thus ending the relationship (Bizzarini was the team engineer on the Ferrari 250 GTO and also designed the 12 cyl in the first generations Lamborghini's. He also helped create the BreadVan undercontract to Volpe

 

The tale of the Griffo being the same as a Bizzarrini is often repeated, but the Bizzarrini has considerable differences and is much rarer, and more expensive. Here is a photochop that I've posted several times before when the question came up. They are not really that much alike.
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The ISO Grifo A3/C is almost a dead ringer for the Bizzarrini.
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True, but isn't that how the Grifo evolved into the Bizzarrini? The C was the competition derivitive of the Grifo which was a long way from the stock version. How many C versions did they build? By the way, there has been a guy with an ad in Hemmings for years WANTING anything Bizzarrini. The Bizzarrini market must have been cornered a long time ago.

 

I known 2 cars
One 100 % restored ( 4 years restoration ) in Belgium
Colour Blue Petrol
Second is red, US title but car in Belgium was restored a fews years ago in US.
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