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The Rock Star, The Silver Bizzarrini GT And The Super Bowl
by Mike – The rock band, Coldplay, is providing the 2016 Super Bowl (American Football) halftime entertainment in Santa Clara, California on February 7. A few years ago I worked down the street from...
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The Bizzarrini P538 – An Unfulfilled Potential
by Mike – The Bizzarrini P538 is a mid-engine topless race car with a tubular steel chassis covered by a fiberglass body. This is a stunning car in person, however, it did not have a successful race...
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Golden Oldies – Engineers, Cars And Music
by Mike – Giotto Bizzarrini will turn 90 on June 6. Below is a video celebrating some of his creations. Play the video on full screen and turn up the sound. The music does not interrupt the engine...
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Pebble Beach In The Morning
by Mike – I went to Pebble Beach early today for the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. I had to see the Bizzarrini class and the Ford GT40 assembly. The weather was excellent for a car show –...
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Monterey Car Week – One Man’s Story
by Wallace Wyss – all photos by Mike Gulett Every man’s Monterey car week is different. I go there not just as an historian and a photographer and fine artist but just because I love cars and these...
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The Bizzarrini Class At Pebble Beach Was Awesome – Part 1
by Mike – Regular readers of My Car Quest know I am a big fan of all things Bizzarrini and Iso. Look at the top of this page and you will see my former Bizzarrini GT 5300 Strada. This year the Pebble...
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Unrequited Love: Bizzarrini Spyder
by Wallace Wyss – Way back in the last century, I worked at an ad agency writing ads for Chevys. My superior, Dick Wingersen, owned a Corvette and had it serviced at a place called The Vette Shop. One...
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The Le Mans Winning Iso Bizzarrini A3/C – A Video
by Mike – This very cool video was published by Petrolicious and stars Iso/Bizzarrini A3/C No. 0222 which won its class at Le Mans in 1965 – co-staring Bruce Meyer the current caretaker. Let us know...
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Fourteen Reasons Why A Collector Car Is Desirable
by Mike – Since I spent the day celebrating Thanksgiving I did not put together a new post. I thought you might like to read this one which was originally published in November 2014. It is related to...
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Drogo Ferrari 250 GT
by Mike – In the post, More Classic Car Photos From Padova, Italy, Herbert Putz sent in photos of a beautiful blue Drogo Ferrari. This motivated Stephen Mitchell to comment “The blue Drogo is a...
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The Quick, The Crashed, The Lost And The Found Bizzarrini GT 5300
by Mike – A friend of mine (a long time Bizzarrini GT 5300 owner) who occasionally hung out with Carey Loftin (the movie stunt man) and Max Balchowsky (the racecar builder) told me that it was...
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Buying A Bizzarrini GT 5300
Wherein Our Resident Barn Finder Tells of a Great Find… by Wallace Wyss – So here’s how it went down. I was, in the ’80s, for a time, a barn finder. Now that the internet exists, I am not. But back in...
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Bizzarrini GT 5300 Strada – Rare Birds No. 2
by Mike – Below is a 5:34 video featuring a rare car that most of us do not see everyday or Rare Birds as I call them. This is Rare Birds No. 2 in this series (Rare Birds No. 1 is here). I owned this...
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One Man And His Bizzarrini GT 5300
by Mike Gulett – Ken Phillips bought his Bizzarrini GT 5300 new in Italy in the late ’60s and had it shipped to the US East Coast where it stayed for the next few decades. The very same Bizzarrini GT...
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Lost And Found: The Bizzarrini Manta
by Wallace Wyss – Rule 1, when you are founding your own car design firm, is to make a dramatic-as-all-hell show car and I think the Bizzarrini Manta qualifies. This was Giorgetto Giugiaro’s strategy...
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The Bizzarrini Manta by ItalDesign – The Brochure
by Mike – We recently posted a history summary of the stunning Bizzarrini Manta by ItalDesign. The Bizzarrini Manta was the first car designed by the great car designer, Giorgetto Giugiaro, after he...
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Fifteen Reasons Why We Buy a Used Car (Classic Car)
by Mike Gulett – We have different reasons why we like certain car makes and models. We like some cars in a way that we want to own one and we like other cars in a way that we admire the art, the...
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The Bizzarrini Manta by ItalDesign – The Brochure
by Mike – We recently posted a history summary of the stunning Bizzarrini Manta by ItalDesign. The Bizzarrini Manta was the first car designed by the great car designer, Giorgetto Giugiaro, after he...
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Fifteen Reasons Why We Buy a Used Car (Classic Car)
by Mike Gulett – We have different reasons why we like certain car makes and models. We like some cars in a way that we want to own one and we like other cars in a way that we admire the art, the...
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Confessions of a Former Barn Finder
by Wallace Wyss – I know there’s still the AutoTrader but my short lived career as a barn finder was built on the original newspaper-style Auto Trader that you could get at any liquor store. My method...
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