• Rare Italian-US hybrid • One of 797 cars produced • Present ownership for 12 years • Prepared as a track day/race car to FIA Appendix K • Eligible for many of the most prestigious events Bubblecar manufacturer Iso joined the ranks of supercar constructors in 1962 with the launch of the Giotto Bizzarrini-designed Rivolta coupé at the Turin Motor Show.

Renzo Rivolta's Isothermos company had begun life pre-war making refrigerators, turning to the manufacture of scooters, under the Iso name, after the war and thence to the highly successful Isetta bubblecar.

Interviewed for Octane magazine (issue 151) Renzo's son Piero recalled that his father liked fast cars but could not find one that really suited him: one that was fast, comfortable and reliable.

"He decided that Iso should produce a fast car that was genuinely useable every day, and priced somewhere between a Jaguar and a Ferrari." The result was the Rivolta.

Styled at Carrozzeria Bertone by Giorgetto Giugiaro and powered by a 32...