line, it lasted less than a half an hour and retired due to a cracked oil line. During the short race time, the P538 was clocked as one of the fastest cars on the Mulsanne Straight. In 1968, Giugiaro rebuilt one of the P538 bodies as the famous Bizzarrini Manta. After some years in Sweden, it was dismantled for an extensive restoration. Later featured in various classics car events, it is now in the United States. Post Bizzarrini S.p. A AMX/3 Seven complete AMC AMX/3 cars and nine chassis are known to survive. Some remaining parts from the canceled, second group of five cars were used by erstwhile Bizzarrini collaborator Salvatore Diomante to assemble the sixth car, named and marketed as Sciabola. Bizzarrini used the 8th AMX/3 chassis to build the Iso Varedo. Additionally, an open two-seat Spider featuring no weather protection was built in the 1990s using an unfinished AMX/3 modified chassis and the 7th AMX/3, on display at the Autoworld Museum in Belgium, were both finished by Giorgio Giordanengo. This was the ultimate evolution of the P538 and Bizzarrini 5300 GT chassis. P538S Officially, three or four chassis were originally built in period, destined to race in the United States by Mike Gammino and Le Mans. Today, not less than a dozen (or more) chassis are in existence, some of these replicas claiming to be the real cars raced in Le Mans. At least two of the replicas are Lamborghini V12 powered. These V12 powered cars were truly the long-awaited Bizzarrini dream — his own engine and chassis. BZ-2001 In 1990, Bizzarrini was involved in the design of a one-off supercar model. Based on Ferrari Testarossa components, Bizzarrini and his team designed an amazing and superb car. The car was showed to the public for the first time at Pebble Beach in 1993. The car’s design is inspired to Bizzarrini 5300 GT Spyder but the Bizzarrini BZ-2001 is also considered as the true successor of the P538. To build the car were invested about 3 millions dollars, an astronomical amount for that time. The car was the first one of a planned production run, but it remained the only one ever produced. The performance of the car 0-60 mph in 3.9 seconds was remarkable in the early 90’s, it was even faster than the Ferrari F40. The car was exposed in many famous international locations during the years