Well, not really. This was just a vintage rally practical joke, and a good one at that.
This car is one of those famous Euro-American hybrids, with raw yankee power mated to a sleek Italian chassis. This car looks and sounds wonderful. Yeah the name is right on the back, but go ahead and guess. 
Even w/o the “Grifo” on the back, this is unmistakedly an Iso; from a company who was, like Lamborghini, rich not for the cars they made but the industrial products which funded the car Jones.
In this case…refrigerators. AND, BMW owes their LIFE to Iso, for buying from them the rights to their Isetta (“Little Iso”) and making it into a, *ahem*, REAL car.
God hep us….
Comment by vrooomie — January 29, 2009 @ 1:32 pm
BTW: Recognize the source for the tail light lenses?
Comment by vrooomie — January 31, 2009 @ 9:22 pm
Nope… care to enlighten us?
Comment by chuck goolsbee — January 31, 2009 @ 9:26 pm
Yessir…they’re the same lenses as on SII/SII Lotus Elans and SII/SIII E-Types!
Comment by vrooomie — February 1, 2009 @ 2:26 pm
well.. there you go. Learn something new everyday.
Comment by chuck goolsbee — February 1, 2009 @ 4:26 pm