Meet the 1965-1968 Bizzarrini GT 5300 Strada.
The Bizzarrini marque was the creation of Ing. Giotto Bizzarrini following his departure from Ferrari after the famous “Palace revolt”. Whilst at Ferrari during 1957 to 1962, he was responsible for the development of the 250 series – Ferrari GT 2+2, 3 litre Testa Rossa, and would later help develop a V-12 engine for nascent sports car maker Ferruccio Lamborghini and the Berlinetta GTO.
The GT 5300 Strada (“Street”) retained the ultra-low, wide styling of the A3/C, and sported a front-mid-mounted Corvette engine rated at 365 hp (with solid lifters) or 350 hp (with hydraulic lifters), backed by a Muncie four-speed manual gearbox. Most examples were built with aluminum alloy bodywork, while a few used fiberglass panels over the pressed sheet-steel platform chassis. The U.S.-specification version was called the GT 5300 America and featured fiberglass bodywork and a revised suspension; it cost $10,500, which was roughly equivalent to $78,500 today. No accurate production records are known to exist, and sources suggest that up to 115 GT 5300s (including GT Americas) were built before production stopped in 1968.
Ascott Collection is offering one of the seven copies of the car sold in France and registered on November 20, 1967. The car was delivered to Aix-en-Provence, to René Maucort (who ran the Le Roy René sweet-shop, a firm that produces the famous “Calissons” of Aix-en-Provence). Click here for further information!
