{"id":28562,"date":"2012-10-12T13:59:06","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T12:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=28562"},"modified":"2023-01-24T15:06:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T15:06:59","slug":"bizzarrini-strada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/cars\/bizzarrini-strada\/","title":{"rendered":"Strada 5300GT by Bizzarrini"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nphotographs: Simon Clay
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This thing is so beautiful it’s rude not to drop a whole gallery on you.<\/p>\n

The 5300GT Strada is probably the most beautiful product of the 1961 uproar in the house of Ferrari<\/a> that saw a bunch of sales and engineering staff leave the company.<\/p>\n

One of the engineers that was ousted in the carnage was a Mr Giotto Bizzarini: who then went on to create Iso<\/a> and his own-label brand of automotive loveliness. The Bertone-designed Strada was ostensibly a street car, but it was more like a racer, with lightweight aluminium bodywork & a semi-monocoque body riveted to the frame.<\/p>\n

Combine this with a beautifully balanced, low distribution of weight and you had a very effective racer for the road.<\/p>\n

Apparently the 180MPH top speed was realistic, too, powered as it was by that V8 Chevrolet straight out of the Corvette.<\/p>\n\n\t\t