Salvatore Diomante is an automobile engineer and restorer, best known as Bizzarrini's factory manager in the 1960s. He started his own firm in 1968; one of his first contracts involved building the AMC AMX III. Bizzarrini P578 Spider 000 000 1976 frontright 2012-05-17 U

Bizzarrini P578 Spider 000 000 1976 frontright 2012-05-17 U

Diomante resides in Nichelino, Italy and operates Autocostruzioni S.D., where he keeps parts, special tools and original moulds from

Bizzarrini P538 The P538 or P538S was a rear-engined race car launched in late 1965 or early 1966 by Scuderia Bizzarrini of Livorno, Italy. The cars used five-speed manual transaxles with gearing specific to the race for which each car was constructed. Braking ...

s and Bizzarrini 5300s. He rebuilds and restores old Bizzarrini cars, as well as other Italian exotic cars. He usually is called by owners to make spare parts. Some info talk about some new cars and replicas built using original and old sourced parts. Lamborghini LM002 Brunei 1989 frontleft 2009-03-14 U

Lamborghini LM002 Brunei 1989 frontleft 2009-03-14 U

In the eighties, Diomante offered stretched versions of several Italian cars. A long wheelbase

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and a

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elongated by 65 cm were some of his efforts. The Quattroporte offered a sumptuous interior and a correspondingly high price tag of 210 million lire. The stretched 131, called the SD 131 Diplomatic, sat on a 60 cm longer wheelbase than usual and was thus nearly 5 metres long. It was a four-door sedan with an added middle row of seats. Diomante also constructed a stretched

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version of the

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for the

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. They also carried out stretched conversions and

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s on Rolls-Royce and Bentley basis.

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