My Dad was chief of the body shop of the main GM importer in Switzerland. He got a call of a friend who had a big GM dealership and had to fix a beautiful blue metallic Bitter CD with a bad front damage. They studied the damage under the hood and figured out that parts of the front could be fixed with spare parts of the Opel Diplomat. The hood did cost over 4000$ and that was over 45 years ago! The owner of the car was trying to pay the bill of the repair with a fraud check. So the guy in the repair shop kept the car until he passed away last year. I loved the GTs of the area, specially Italian ones. The Bitter CD has a lot of similarity to one of my favourite cars of all time. The Maserati Ghibli. My absolute favourite car ever was the early Iso Grifo. A rare Beauty indeed. I could only see one two times in my entire life. Last month I was at an auction where a late model sold for 200 000 Swiss Francs.
I'm old enough to have been in college when the Bitter came out. To my eyes it looked like a less-attractive Ghibli. Boy, I loved the looks of the early Grifo before the huge hood. As sensual as the Miura with that coke-bottle styling.
Why do these cars look like their from the future more than today's vehicles? Absolutely beautiful designs. Imagine these cars combined with today's technology and horsepower.
At 3:18 you speak of sending power to the rear wheels, yet show a front suspension unit! At 9:10 you show the chassis of an electric car! At 10:17 the engine of a racing A3C is correctly shown further "rearwards" than ususal! At 10:31 you show the winning Ferrari 250 LM. At 17:22 you show a McPherson Strut front suspension, rather than double wishbones! At 21:29 the rectangular lights shown actually replaced the circular ones, on a later model of the car!
I noticed a lot of inconsistencies to. This type of false info in a "social media essay" really confuses the facts and the legacy of these vehicles They should have to show citations like in true essay form. So they can do the diligence of getting their story straight.
There is more: 1:08 it's Volkswagens, not Opels, 1:32 the pic is not from the 50's, since the Opel is 1967 or newer, 3:10 it's not a 327 engine, it's a much newer 350 with fuel injection, 3:40 "luxury" which was standard in Opel Diplomat from were a lot parts was used, 3:52 it's a Ferrari! I can't stand it! Stopped watching there...
Not sure why you throw in so much stock footage of cars and manufacturing facilities that have nothing to do with the subject matter at the time. If you need footage, just keep it on the beautiful cars you're describing.
i miss the days when men of means and ambition just decided "hey, lets make a sports / race car" and just went ahead and did it. They were beautiful to look at, and i love cars with "proper" dials and gauges instead of all the electronic gizmo's in modern cars.I just love the purity of those older classics i guess.
Such a travesty! The information and the images in the section about the ISO Grifo are all over the place. Half of them are either inconsistent or completely out of place!
The "Palace Revolt" wasn't that way. Bizzarrini, Chiti and others had problems with Mrs Ferrari (who was crazy) and sent a letter to Enzo through a lawyer. Ferrari preferred direct contact and, offended by their move, fired all of them.
It doesn't help that this vehicle was made during the 'Malaise Era" when anything that aspired to even half decent performance was a no-no. Despite what seemed to be not the most impressive performance numbers, this vehicle had pretty good performance by "Malaise Era" standards.
I don't know which specific car you're referring to. Assuming that it's the Bitter CD, know that there was no "Malaise Era" in Europe and that V8 engines sourced from American manufacturers were not held to comply with US smog regulations. Furthermore, the Bitter CD was built mainly during the first half of the 1970s. Even in the States, compression ratios were not forced to drop substantially (because of unleaded fuel) until 1973 and catalytic converters did not become mandatory until 1976. The term "Malaise Era" refers to a fifteen year period from the late-'70s to the early-'90s when American manufacturers were forced by a combination of CAFE regulations and two fuel crises (1974 and 1979) to downsize their cars and put in smaller engines to make them more fuel-efficient. However, the first generation of downsized cars didn't appear until at least 1976 and even then full-sized cars were only reduced to the size of what had previously been considered intermediates, which meant that they were still big by European and Japanese standards. Furthermore, whilst big block engines were eliminated in passenger cars, that did not apply to trucks. I would say that the Malaise Era only really starts with the introduction of GM's front-wheel drive X Cars in 1979, by which time the Bitter CD had ceased production. European cars that featured American muscle, such as the De Tommaso Pantera, carried on quite happily into the '80s without suffering drastic performance reductions, just as did European cars from Ferrari, Lamborghini, Mercedes, BMW, Porsche, etc.
Oh yeah also iso griffi had engines in Chevy from 327 all the way up to 427 and and Ford's 351 and some other cubic inches.just thought you'd like to know
My Dad was chief of the body shop of the main GM importer in Switzerland. He got a call of a friend who had a big GM dealership and had to fix a beautiful blue metallic Bitter CD with a bad front damage. They studied the damage under the hood and figured out that parts of the front could be fixed with spare parts of the Opel Diplomat. The hood did cost over 4000$ and that was over 45 years ago! The owner of the car was trying to pay the bill of the repair with a fraud check. So the guy in the repair shop kept the car until he passed away last year.
I loved the GTs of the area, specially Italian ones. The Bitter CD has a lot of similarity to one of my favourite cars of all time. The Maserati Ghibli.
My absolute favourite car ever was the early Iso Grifo. A rare Beauty indeed. I could only see one two times in my entire life. Last month I was at an auction where a late model sold for 200 000 Swiss Francs.
I'm old enough to have been in college when the Bitter came out. To my eyes it looked like a less-attractive Ghibli. Boy, I loved the looks of the early Grifo before the huge hood. As sensual as the Miura with that coke-bottle styling.
As a kid in the mid 70s , I saw 2 Bitters nearly everyday in Oberhausen, on the way home from school.
Gotta love the Miura!
Why do these cars look like their from the future more than today's vehicles? Absolutely beautiful designs. Imagine these cars combined with today's technology and horsepower.
Thanks for this wonderful video😊
I love the Grifo.
At 3:18 you speak of sending power to the rear wheels, yet show a front suspension unit! At 9:10 you show the chassis of an electric car! At 10:17 the engine of a racing A3C is correctly shown further "rearwards" than ususal! At 10:31 you show the winning Ferrari 250 LM. At 17:22 you show a McPherson Strut front suspension, rather than double wishbones! At 21:29 the rectangular lights shown actually replaced the circular ones, on a later model of the car!
I noticed a lot of inconsistencies to. This type of false info in a "social media essay" really confuses the facts and the legacy of these vehicles
They should have to show citations like in true essay form. So they can do the diligence of getting their story straight.
The Opel CD Concept didn't have gullwing doors, either. It had a lift-up canopy.
That's A I for you!
There is more: 1:08 it's Volkswagens, not Opels, 1:32 the pic is not from the 50's, since the Opel is 1967 or newer, 3:10 it's not a 327 engine, it's a much newer 350 with fuel injection, 3:40 "luxury" which was standard in Opel Diplomat from were a lot parts was used, 3:52 it's a Ferrari!
I can't stand it! Stopped watching there...
@@matsfredsson9445 Exactly. If you are making specialist videos, get it right!
I had no idea these cars even existed! Beautiful designs!
Not sure why you throw in so much stock footage of cars and manufacturing facilities that have nothing to do with the subject matter at the time. If you need footage, just keep it on the beautiful cars you're describing.
always loved the iso from when i was a boy , so handsome!!
why all those unnecessary effects?
it is distracting only
You're getting your 1960's TVR Griffith and 1990's TVR Griffith mixed up I'm afraid.
The man at 16:35 isn't Guigiaro, it's Bertone.
"Reliability that only American engineers could provide..." LOL.
i miss the days when men of means and ambition just decided "hey, lets make a sports / race car" and just went ahead and did it. They were beautiful to look at, and i love cars with "proper" dials and gauges instead of all the electronic gizmo's in modern cars.I just love the purity of those older classics i guess.
nICE VIDEO WELCOME HERE. FRIEND.
Inaccurate engine pics, GM did not offer that intake manifold and/or TPI at that time!!!!!
The following applies to all your videos: Great subject matter BUT annoying lack of coherence between narration and images.
I learned a lot. Thanks.
He got a few things wrong, though.
The Bizzarini looked sweet
Such a travesty! The information and the images in the section about the ISO Grifo are all over the place. Half of them are either inconsistent or completely out of place!
Oops - at 3;50, the lovely Bitter looks AMAZINGLY like a Ferrari Daytona!
I hate when people who make these videos do stuff like that. Stuff like that might get this video a thumbs down
I saw a BITTER at a wholesale auto auction In Indianapolis in the late 70s or early 80s.
An interesting video but spoilt by totally irrelevant and incorrect images.
"he transitioned" in 2024 means a whole other thing 😉👍😁😱😱
4:08 Back when it was unimaginable that gas would be $1.00 or more.
The "Palace Revolt" wasn't that way. Bizzarrini, Chiti and others had problems with Mrs Ferrari (who was crazy) and sent a letter to Enzo through a lawyer. Ferrari preferred direct contact and, offended by their move, fired all of them.
got half way through, why can't Americans get basic facts right
It really was a copy of the 1967-1973 Maserati Ghibli.
The Ferrari GTO was prettier than the Bizzarini...but, the Bizzarini had lower CG, and perhaps more reliability...
It doesn't help that this vehicle was made during the 'Malaise Era" when anything that aspired to even half decent performance was a no-no. Despite what seemed to be not the most impressive performance numbers, this vehicle had pretty good performance by "Malaise Era" standards.
I don't know which specific car you're referring to. Assuming that it's the Bitter CD, know that there was no "Malaise Era" in Europe and that V8 engines sourced from American manufacturers were not held to comply with US smog regulations. Furthermore, the Bitter CD was built mainly during the first half of the 1970s. Even in the States, compression ratios were not forced to drop substantially (because of unleaded fuel) until 1973 and catalytic converters did not become mandatory until 1976.
The term "Malaise Era" refers to a fifteen year period from the late-'70s to the early-'90s when American manufacturers were forced by a combination of CAFE regulations and two fuel crises (1974 and 1979) to downsize their cars and put in smaller engines to make them more fuel-efficient. However, the first generation of downsized cars didn't appear until at least 1976 and even then full-sized cars were only reduced to the size of what had previously been considered intermediates, which meant that they were still big by European and Japanese standards. Furthermore, whilst big block engines were eliminated in passenger cars, that did not apply to trucks.
I would say that the Malaise Era only really starts with the introduction of GM's front-wheel drive X Cars in 1979, by which time the Bitter CD had ceased production. European cars that featured American muscle, such as the De Tommaso Pantera, carried on quite happily into the '80s without suffering drastic performance reductions, just as did European cars from Ferrari, Lamborghini, Mercedes, BMW, Porsche, etc.
Pic of Ferrari Daytona in Bitter segment.
Photos rarely match the talking...too bad.
n 1 Espada that's all.
Eeso Greefo? I don't think so. Try eyso griffo if you want to pronounce the name correctly.
The bitter looks like shit compared to the competitors of the same era
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They just weren't pretty enough sadly
That Opel CD is just plain ugly, in my not-so humble opinion. 🤷🏻♂️
Good video except that one engine is a newer 427 that isn't a big block.but great video other than that
Oh yeah also iso griffi had engines in Chevy from 327 all the way up to 427 and and Ford's 351 and some other cubic inches.just thought you'd like to know