malang
May 27, 2007, 5:42 PM
When Zampolli began having vague thoughts of building his own car, the complains of his mechanics and customers were always tangled up in those thoughts. When he decided it was time to commence work on this practical exotic,he started shuttling between his adopted home of Los Angeles and the mother country. At no point did he tell his children or freinds in the U.S why he was traveling to Italy so often. He wished to keep his project a secret from all except the craftsmen involved.
Though originally from Bologona, Zampolli chose Modena as the site of his skunk works because it has an automotive cottage industry capable of the fine work needed to build prototypes and exotics.With Lamborghini, Ferrari and Maserati all in the regional neighborhood,this is thye best city for the construction of an exotic car. To show his allegiance both to Italy and Modena, Zampolli took that city's colour, blue and yellow for his company and the wolf head logo of "Cizeta-Moroder Motors" .To make the car his own Zampolli gave it his initials,CZ,pronounced Cizeta in Italian. Traditional Italian thinking on exotics means a dramatic body formed in aluminium,a tabular chasis and engines with many many cylinders.Zampolli decided to beat both Ferrari and Lamborghini- as well as Jaguar, BMW and Mercedes-in the number game.On his drafting board he conceived the architecture of an alloy 6.0 liter short V16 with eight camshafts driving off chains spinning at the engine's center. The big motor show also has 64 valves, 10 main bearings,two Bosch V8 fuel injection units, four distributers and two crankshafts that mate in the center with huge gears, which feed power to a longitudinally mounted ZF transaxle luike those found in Isedra Imperators and Panteras(the T-shaped joining of the engine and transaxle gives the car it's V 16T designation).In those few instances when Modenese craftsmen couldn't handle a job, Zampolli sought out the best companies in Europe.Predictably, the pistons are made by Mahle of Stuttgart. And the crank-shafts which are understandably a bit complex in their construction were built up by the French company Mobilor, which does work on racing and prototype engine. The cranks cost $15000 per engine, which is no small sum.
MY FREINDS I AM SKIPPING A LITTLE BIT INFORMATION AS IT IS A VERY LONG STORY, SO BEING A LITTLE BIT SHORT IS NOT BAD OTHERWISE IT WILL IRRITATE YOU ALL.
Although Zampolli was actively involved in every phase of the car's development,he has had plenty of talented people around him most of them old hands from Lamborghini. Oliver pedrazzi is the chief engineer and the head of engine development, and the chasis was handeled by Achille Bevini and Ianose Bronzatti. Master fabricator Giancarlo Guerra was also recruited from Lamborghini.
Bevini and Bronzatti produced asophisticated but entirely tradtional tubular space frameand suspension.The frame is made of elliptical tubing,with one 72mm main tube running down the center.The basic design and construction is much like that of a Countach or a Testarossa.It is typically Italian.
The big wheels and exotic tires both front and rear had a great effect not only on the car's mechanical layout but also on it's styling,which was being accomplished in Torino while all the engine building and tube bending was going on in Modena. MarcelloGandini, who penned the Lamborghini Miura, Coutnach, Espada and Urraco as well as the Lancia Stratos and a recent series of show cars that greatly influenced the current shape of BMW sedans (1987's) was asked by Zampolli to create a suit of clothes for his great engine and sturdy frame to wear. The first design for Cizeta, which was taken all the way to full scale model, looked much like an oversized and bulbous Lamborghini Urraco and Zampolli did not think it was the right shape for his car. Too conservative, too much like a seventies exotic. Zampollithought long and hard before asking the great Gandini to revise the shape. He did not wish to insult the man who would so greatly influence the ultimate success or failure of his car.Zampolli is a humble man,remember.When the conservation finally came up just over a year ago and zampolli asked for a little change here and there,Gandini confessed he didn't like the car much, either, and started with afresh sheet of paper.After a few months of work at his villain torino, Gandini had an entirely new body design.
The shape of Gandini's most significant work,the Countach, was in large part governed by the mechanical layout of the car.The characterstics rear haunches of the Countach, which give the car it's animal,brutish appearance,were the result of a tall engine, a short wheelbase produced by the forward-mounting of the transmission and the tall tires available in the early seventies.
Inside the car is equally remarkable, if only because the shapes and surfaces are simple,clean and chiselled. The doors open in conventional fashion, first because that is more practical and second because gull wings and forward-opening doors are cliches on anything other than a Mercedes or Lamborghini. The front and rear sections of the window surrounds move with the door, which creates two metal spikes. So that the spikes will not pose a danger to bystanders or to people climbing in and out, the windows automatically rise to fill the gap between the spikes whenever the door is opened.
Reflecting the unique character of this car, it debuted not at Turin or Geneva or Frankfurt, but at the Los Angeles Auto Show, just a few miles from Claudio's dealership.By the end of the show, he had 14 orders with the suitable deposits.
To date Zampolli has completed the one car, which he and Mr.Guerra built to the highest standards so that people would beleive this is a real company with a real car.Three complete engines have been built,the second and third engines now spending plenty of time on dynos and in mules. Zampolli and his crew want to gurrantee their customers reliability.And for $300,000 a customer will spend to own this rarest of exotics, he should expect a fast and reliable car.
Zampolli hopes to start filling the 14 orders he has taken within the next two years. If that seemslike a long wait, just remember that Mr. Zampolli first dreamed of the car while working on Countach,then spent another seven years thinking over how best to produce it and then another three years were spent engineering and building this one example. To him another few years is nothing. To the lucky few people who can afford the product of his labor, two years of anticipation should be excrutiating delight..!
FREINDS STORY OVER.. I HAVE SUMMARISED IT AS IT WAS TOO LONG SO BETTER READ IT..! AND THE PICTURES I AM PROVIDING IS GIVEN TO ME FROM ONE OF THE FREIND WHO READ MY LAST SCRAP. THANK YOU FOR THAT ONE.. UNFORTUNATELY I COULDN'T ARRANGE OTHER PICTURES SO I'M POSTING THE SAME PICTURES AS POSTED BY THAT GUY. TIME FACTOR BELONGS TO THE PERIOD OF 1987--89....!
Though originally from Bologona, Zampolli chose Modena as the site of his skunk works because it has an automotive cottage industry capable of the fine work needed to build prototypes and exotics.With Lamborghini, Ferrari and Maserati all in the regional neighborhood,this is thye best city for the construction of an exotic car. To show his allegiance both to Italy and Modena, Zampolli took that city's colour, blue and yellow for his company and the wolf head logo of "Cizeta-Moroder Motors" .To make the car his own Zampolli gave it his initials,CZ,pronounced Cizeta in Italian. Traditional Italian thinking on exotics means a dramatic body formed in aluminium,a tabular chasis and engines with many many cylinders.Zampolli decided to beat both Ferrari and Lamborghini- as well as Jaguar, BMW and Mercedes-in the number game.On his drafting board he conceived the architecture of an alloy 6.0 liter short V16 with eight camshafts driving off chains spinning at the engine's center. The big motor show also has 64 valves, 10 main bearings,two Bosch V8 fuel injection units, four distributers and two crankshafts that mate in the center with huge gears, which feed power to a longitudinally mounted ZF transaxle luike those found in Isedra Imperators and Panteras(the T-shaped joining of the engine and transaxle gives the car it's V 16T designation).In those few instances when Modenese craftsmen couldn't handle a job, Zampolli sought out the best companies in Europe.Predictably, the pistons are made by Mahle of Stuttgart. And the crank-shafts which are understandably a bit complex in their construction were built up by the French company Mobilor, which does work on racing and prototype engine. The cranks cost $15000 per engine, which is no small sum.
MY FREINDS I AM SKIPPING A LITTLE BIT INFORMATION AS IT IS A VERY LONG STORY, SO BEING A LITTLE BIT SHORT IS NOT BAD OTHERWISE IT WILL IRRITATE YOU ALL.
Although Zampolli was actively involved in every phase of the car's development,he has had plenty of talented people around him most of them old hands from Lamborghini. Oliver pedrazzi is the chief engineer and the head of engine development, and the chasis was handeled by Achille Bevini and Ianose Bronzatti. Master fabricator Giancarlo Guerra was also recruited from Lamborghini.
Bevini and Bronzatti produced asophisticated but entirely tradtional tubular space frameand suspension.The frame is made of elliptical tubing,with one 72mm main tube running down the center.The basic design and construction is much like that of a Countach or a Testarossa.It is typically Italian.
The big wheels and exotic tires both front and rear had a great effect not only on the car's mechanical layout but also on it's styling,which was being accomplished in Torino while all the engine building and tube bending was going on in Modena. MarcelloGandini, who penned the Lamborghini Miura, Coutnach, Espada and Urraco as well as the Lancia Stratos and a recent series of show cars that greatly influenced the current shape of BMW sedans (1987's) was asked by Zampolli to create a suit of clothes for his great engine and sturdy frame to wear. The first design for Cizeta, which was taken all the way to full scale model, looked much like an oversized and bulbous Lamborghini Urraco and Zampolli did not think it was the right shape for his car. Too conservative, too much like a seventies exotic. Zampollithought long and hard before asking the great Gandini to revise the shape. He did not wish to insult the man who would so greatly influence the ultimate success or failure of his car.Zampolli is a humble man,remember.When the conservation finally came up just over a year ago and zampolli asked for a little change here and there,Gandini confessed he didn't like the car much, either, and started with afresh sheet of paper.After a few months of work at his villain torino, Gandini had an entirely new body design.
The shape of Gandini's most significant work,the Countach, was in large part governed by the mechanical layout of the car.The characterstics rear haunches of the Countach, which give the car it's animal,brutish appearance,were the result of a tall engine, a short wheelbase produced by the forward-mounting of the transmission and the tall tires available in the early seventies.
Inside the car is equally remarkable, if only because the shapes and surfaces are simple,clean and chiselled. The doors open in conventional fashion, first because that is more practical and second because gull wings and forward-opening doors are cliches on anything other than a Mercedes or Lamborghini. The front and rear sections of the window surrounds move with the door, which creates two metal spikes. So that the spikes will not pose a danger to bystanders or to people climbing in and out, the windows automatically rise to fill the gap between the spikes whenever the door is opened.
Reflecting the unique character of this car, it debuted not at Turin or Geneva or Frankfurt, but at the Los Angeles Auto Show, just a few miles from Claudio's dealership.By the end of the show, he had 14 orders with the suitable deposits.
To date Zampolli has completed the one car, which he and Mr.Guerra built to the highest standards so that people would beleive this is a real company with a real car.Three complete engines have been built,the second and third engines now spending plenty of time on dynos and in mules. Zampolli and his crew want to gurrantee their customers reliability.And for $300,000 a customer will spend to own this rarest of exotics, he should expect a fast and reliable car.
Zampolli hopes to start filling the 14 orders he has taken within the next two years. If that seemslike a long wait, just remember that Mr. Zampolli first dreamed of the car while working on Countach,then spent another seven years thinking over how best to produce it and then another three years were spent engineering and building this one example. To him another few years is nothing. To the lucky few people who can afford the product of his labor, two years of anticipation should be excrutiating delight..!
FREINDS STORY OVER.. I HAVE SUMMARISED IT AS IT WAS TOO LONG SO BETTER READ IT..! AND THE PICTURES I AM PROVIDING IS GIVEN TO ME FROM ONE OF THE FREIND WHO READ MY LAST SCRAP. THANK YOU FOR THAT ONE.. UNFORTUNATELY I COULDN'T ARRANGE OTHER PICTURES SO I'M POSTING THE SAME PICTURES AS POSTED BY THAT GUY. TIME FACTOR BELONGS TO THE PERIOD OF 1987--89....!