Sort of off topic, but I found this video super fun to watch... Something about a proper Brit educating the m***es on the hooliganism of a radical SBC.
Here's an article from Cars magazine, could be 1970 or '71, showing the great finned aluminum oil pan fitted to the Iso Grifo's by the factory. The Grifo was owned by Marty Schorr, he wrote for car magazines but also went on to publish them, was one of the founders of Baldwin-Motion and was also a longtime PR guy for Buick. Mainly I posted this photo to show that pan, no doubt they were limited production and unobtanium today. I was surprised to see the boss post a foreign car video and I thought you guys might want to see that cool pan, but now I'm wondering if that's the same car? Look at the video at 18:08, the carb has a secondary metering block like the Holley 2818 installed BITD on Schoor's car and other than the LT-1 valve covers it looks very much like the same car.
One of the neatest long term projects I've ever been involved with is a Iso Rivolta #500ish of nearly 800 built for 66 first time I saw the car it was a shell on a pallet but of beautiful Italian design and i was like "holly **** a small block" . i ended up building the whole car ,lots of parts from scratch ,mild sneaky improvements , brake upgrades, power steering ,real a/c, scratch wiring mimicking stock in every way , alum heads (painted) ,be cool cross flow radiator with faux tank top and fan "guard" to appear stock greatest customer ever ,, long story short ,, in '19 he became my employer , and i am caretaker of the car and see it every day , car is a engineering marvel with deDion rear suspension 4 link and watts link , adjustable front suspension steering rate at the spindles ,knock off wheels by Campagnolo , plus the car flat hauls ,, fabricator john miss you dad
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