1963 Iso Grifo A3C

This was one of the cars entered in the Coys of Kensington Pre 1964 GT Cars race at the Silverstone Historic Festival meeting in July 2000.

It's the 1963 Iso A3C driven by Jeremy Agace and Ray Bellm in the race. The car was designed by Giotto Bizzarrini who later left Iso and continued producing the car as a Bizzarrini A3C. The programme of the event had this note about the car:

 

‘Monaco based Agace’s Iso, the company’s Turin show car of ’63, benefits from a hulking great 5.3 litre Chevrolet V8 engine, buried as far back as possible in the cockpit bulkhead for optimum weight distribution. Well balanced, and superbly fettled by Paul Lanzante’s équipe, its impressive Historic log includes winning last year’s Spa 6 hours and the GT class of the Paul Ricard 24 hours in ’98. Co-driver Bellm is still seriously quick.’

Bizzarini Corsa

This car took part in the Coys of Kensington GT Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1995.

It's a 1965 Bizzarrini Corsa owned by Elviro Govoni who shared the driving in the 50km race with Gianpaolo Benedini, and it appears to be chassis IA3 0252. The car was designed by Giotto Bizzarrini and built by Rivolta as an Iso Grifo A3/C, but when Bizzarrini split with Renzo Rivolta he continued to produce the car using his own name.

I've featured the car three times previously, under both names, on 30 November 2015,  23 October 2017 and 13 May 2018.

Iso Grifo A3C

This was one of the cars entered in the Italy v Rest of the World 1960s World Endurance Cars race at the Silverstone Historic Festival meeting in August 2001.

It's the 1965 Iso Grifo A3C of Gregor Fisken, and has a 5,354cc V8 Chevrolet engine. The car was designed by Giotto Bizzarrini who later left Iso and continued producing the car as a Bizzarrini A3C. I showed a photograph of an Iso A3C on 30 November 2015, and on 23 October 2017 a photograph of its Bizzarrini equivalent.

ISO A3/C

This is one of the cars which competed in the Coys of Kensington Pre 1964 GT Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 2000.

Shown in the programme of the event as an Iso A3C, it belonged to Jeremy Agace and was driven by him and Ray Bellm in this 50 minute race. The car was designed by Giotto Bizzarrini for Renzo Rivolta as a successor to the Iso Rivolta IR 300, but when Bizzarrini split from Iso Rivolta he started his own company and the A3C formed the basis of the Bizzarrini 5300 Corsa. The programme said this about the car:

Monaco-based Agace's Iso, the company's Turin show car of '63, benefits from a hulking great 5.3 litre Chevrolet V8 engine, buried as far back as is possible in the cockpit bulkhead for optimum weight distribution. Well balanced and superbly fettled by Paul Lanzante's équipe, its impressive Historic log includes winning last year's Spa 6 hours and the GT class of the Paul Ricard 24 hours in '98. C0-driver Bellm is still seriously quick.