Performance Cars: Iso Grifo

Drive Time

…in which Iain Tyrrell falls in love with the Iso Grifo (and who wouldn’t?).  American V8 engine coupled with Italian Giugiaro styling…

It’s not really my cup of tea — too bulky — but watching the normally-imperturbable Iain lose his heart (during the first time he’s ever driven an Iso) is absolutely worth the price of admission.

And for the well-heeled, here are your options.

5 comments

  1. They don’t look so chunky in person. Remember they are seventies front engine GT Cars and are styled accordingly, so in the period they were they were ( and still are ) great looking cars with proper GT performance for the period. Iain’s reaction is perfectly understandable

    1. Remember, my ideal is something along the lines of the Alfa Giulia GT or the Dino 246…

  2. My oldest cousin (almost the same age as my father) is a retired test pilot, BG General in the Air Force Reserves and still flies his own Beechcraft Bonanza at the age of 83, bought an Iso Grifo when stationed in Italy in the late 1960’s. He kept it until the middle 2000’s and sold it for enough dough to pay for his current airplane. I visited him many times, and begged him to drive it every chance I got. The best he could do was to let me sit in it, ensuring I had no metal rivets on my jeans and nothing that could harm the interior. I did get to ride shotgun a few times and I would refer to it as “muscular” not bulky. I know you (Kim) like some junk in the trunk, so I’m betting that a turn around the track in one of these would win you over.

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