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By Wallace Wyss
We’re supposed to be hunkered down because of the plague. I get it.
But being a car guy, I can’t help (properly masked of course) going to Malibu at dawn each Sunday morning to see what’s at the informal cars ‘n coffee. And recently I was rewarded with the sight of a 1967 Bizzarrini GT5300 Strada so fresh from France it still has French plates (or are those vanity plates?)
Strada coming at you, but is it the real thing? Photo Courtesy Graham Earl.
By Graham Earl
Words of wisdom from one who knows
(Note that none of the photos herein should be misconstrued as to being a replicar; they represent Bizzarrinis in various forms.)
My first encounter with Bizzarrini was as a student in London in the late 1970s. I was walking home along the A316 at Richmond one afternoon, vaguely noticing the busy rush-hour traffic hustling along the two-lane road. There was an old car repair shop on this road, and for a couple of weeks, I had been intrigued by a Fiat 2300 Ghia Coupe which had been languishing on the forecourt waiting for attention. [Read more…] about Experiencing Giotto Part 1