Iso & Bizzarrini Books

and books with Iso & Bizzarrini

Iso Rivolta The men, the machines. One of the most informative and beautiful books I've ever seen. Everything you want to know about Iso is in this book! 518 pages with full color and b/w photo's of all cars, moto's and scooters produced by Iso and most of cars Bizzarrini has built. Written by Winston Scott Goodfellow - Giorgio Nada Editore. ISBN 88-7911-148-5 English. Price $100 (sometimes on sale on the Internet for $100) - comes in a box
Just published – the new, updated edition of this wonderful survey of the Italian automotive industry after World War II, with special focus on the legendary IsoRivolta automobiles, including the ground-breaking Isetta "Bubble Car" and the Iso Grifo, as well as the Lele and the fabulous Fidia. The new edition follows Piero Rivolta's career to the present day, illustrating his continuing pursuit of design excellence in cars, boats and architecture. Lavishly illustrated with rare archival photography. $59,95

Latest book on Bizzarrini. This is the second edition of the book "The Genius Behind Ferrari's 250 GTO 2nd edition". Writer Phil Olzcyk. Released 2009. Over 600 photos! Can be ordered online here :

http://www.classicscars.com/books/bizzarrini.htm (or click on book)

 

Iso & Bizzarrini Gold Portfolio. Brookland Books. Roadtests of all Iso and Bizzarrini street cars. 172 pages filled with tests and pictures of our cars. Cheap and a must-have like the Goodfellow book! ISBN 1-5520-2395 English. Price $ 25.
Isetta Gold Portfolio. Brookland Books. Roadtests & information. All models are in this book. Also the Velam, Isocarro, BMW etc. 172 pages filled with very interesting information on this little egg shaped cars. ISBN 1-85520-381-2 English. Price $ 25.
BMW Isetta und Ihre Konkurrenten (German). Written by Walter Zeichner - Schrader S Verlag. Nice little book with loads of information about the BMW and their versions of the Italian designed & engineered Isetta and some of the competition and clones. The writer has "forgotten" to mention the "ur" Isetta, the Iso Isetta. 94 pages. ISBN 3-922617-10-7. Price $ 10
Bertone. Written by Luciano Greggio - Giorgio Nada Editore. Fantastic book about the designer (Bertone & Giugiaro) of most of the Iso and Bizzarrini automobiles. 415 pages with full color and b/w photo's of all cars designed by this icon of Italian design. ISBN 88-7911-066-7 English. Price $ 90 (sometimes on sale for as little as $ 25 (Holland) - comes in a nice black box
Ghia Ghia. A great book about one of the great design studios of Italy. More info in the future.
Lamborghini, La grande GT alle Italiana - Storia Evoluzione Modelli Anno per anno. Bizzarrini designed the famous V12 used by Lamborghini for most of their models. 345 pages with b/w pictures. All models. Written by Serge Bellu - Giorgio Nada Editore. ISBN (Italian version) 88-7911-001-2. Price $ 50.

There are diferent versions - One with Iso cars.

Sportscars, all models built between 1945-1980 (original German title: Seriensportwagen). Written by Frank Oleski & Hartmut Lehbrink - Koneman Librero. 462 pages with beautiful full color photo's of almost all Sportscars. Bizzarrini - Iso GT, Grifo & Lele. ISBN (Dutch version 3-89508-005-5)
Italian GT cars Book about some of the wildest Italian products from the sixties. Not expensive and worth every penny. Lots of pictures of a red Bizzarrini 5300 GT - Also NADA ISBN 88-7911-155-8
The Great Book of Sportscars. (English). Written by Dean Bachelor Chris Poole and Graham Robson. 420 pages with fantastic full color photo's of the most beautiful Sportscars. in the world! Bizzarrini and Iso Grifo. ISBN 0-517-63377-9, Price $100 (sometimes on sale for less than $30, Europe)
Style Auto, Architettura della Carrozzeria. Magazine but looks like a book. Try to collect these issues from the sixties: nr 1 (Iso GT) nr 3 (Iso A3/L and Spider) nr 4 (Iso Grifo A3/C) nr 9 (Grifo D'Oro Bertone) nr 14 (Iso S4) nr 21 Iso Lele

Prices are between $ 12.50 for nrs 9 to 21, $ 35 for nr 4 and more than $ 50 for nr 1.