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Renzo Rivolta funded his grand tourers with bubble-car money — the Isetta, licensed profitably to BMW — then hired Giotto Bizzarrini and Giugiaro to build some of the finest Italian-American GTs of the 1960s. The Grifo paired Corvette V8 reliability with coachwork many rank alongside anything from Maranello, while the Rivolta GT and four-door Fidia served the same formula to families. The company failed in 1974, a casualty of the oil crisis, and the Grifo especially has since climbed steadily into serious collector territory — the connoisseur's alternative to the obvious Italian choices.