At the suggestion of Pompeo Bandini began to put 724 cc Crosley engines in the Siluro so that they could compete in H modified racing events.

[1][3][2] The company's owner, Ilario Bandini, divided his time between design and manufacturing of the cars, and as a race driver.

[2] In the United States, a Bandini 750 Siluro driven by Dolph Vilradi won the SCCA HM class championship in 1955.

[5] The successes resulted in Ilario being presented with the Gold Key of Daytona and later in 1981 the Laurea H.C. award in mechanical engineering from Pro Deo university of New York.

A Bandini Siluro won the SCCA Southwest Regional Championship from 1961–1963 and the Saponetta took 3rd place in the National Hmod class in 1961.

[1][2] In 1992 Dino Bandini turned the company workshop into a museum to preserve all documents and the most representative cars for display.