The Maserati Mistral was introduced in 1963 as the successor to the 3500 GT and represented an important transition for the company. Designed by Pietro Frua, it combined a compact fastback body with Maserati’s twin-cam straight-six, an engine derived from the company’s competition experience. The 4.0-litre version sat at the top of the range and… Read More Italian project: 1968 Maserati Mistral 4.0
Mistral is a strong, cold, northwesterly wind that blows from southern France into the Gulf of Lion in the northern Mediterranean. And like the wind of the same name, this Maserati too can leave the observer rather “frozen”. There is in fact a lot to do with this car, indeed, there is not a single… Read More Cold wind: 1968 Maserati Mistral 4.0 by Frua
Ok, we are not suddenly set with the Maserati Mistral, it’s just that everyone seems to be selling them at the same time and our job is to report them, at least the most interesting ones. This Mistral 4.0 is something between a project and a driver: indeed the engine does not start but at… Read More Cordoba red: 1968 Maserati Mistral 4.0
This Mistral coupé (chassis #AM109/A1 926), one of the last built with an inline-six, 4,000 c.c. engine, has been stored for 42 years and now it’s again available to the world of Maserati enthusiasts. So this car should be what in the classic car market is used to say “a time capsule”: it seems that… Read More 42 years stored: 1966 Maserati Mistral
The last series of the Mistral is the only to have the biggest inline-six engine ever produced by Maserati: it’s a 4.0 litre unit which, in this case, is not into the car. The seller doesn’t say much about this car: basically he says that although the body is in nice shape (and actually it seems… Read More Outboard engine: 1966 Maserati Mistral 4.0 Coupé
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