This car shares the same destiny which affected a lot of Italian cars in the U.S: a broken engine often implied a swap with a Ford/Chevy V8. That’s even more odd for a car originally equipped with a magnificent DOHC, inline-six engine with a twin spark ignition setup. The strange thing is that this swap… Read More Primed and swapped: 1966 Maserati Mistral Coupé
This Maserati Quattroporte (#AM107/1420) should be what is generally considered a a typical good basis for a full restoration job as it is quite complete: it misses the front bumper like many other projects we’ve seen so far and, actually, we still an’t understand why so many cars miss at least one. And for sure… Read More Four Borranis and one bumper: 1967 Maserati Quattroporte
December 31, 2015 – 28 months later In the last update of this article I wrote that “the car is almost ready”: indeed that “almost” was heavier than I could ever thought. Actually I’m not surprised at all about the follow up activities of a restoration job, but this is a complex car, more complex than… Read More A restoration tale: 1967 Maserati Ghibli 4.7 Coupé (update #15 – December 31)
This Mistral belongs to one of the first batch of these cars which were equipped with the same engine of their predecessor, the 3500 GT series, although increased of 200 c.c. It was sold new in Italy, in a region which has snow during the winter: snow means salt on the tarmac and indeed this car… Read More Trans-continental: 1964 Maserati Mistral Coupé
The seller says to have more than 12,000 photos done on this Ghibli under restoration: they’re a lot but still they don’t explain everything. The first thing is the chassis number: on eBay the car is listed with the chassis number 115/132 but stangely this car looks the same under restoration here which indeed has… Read More 12,000 photos: 1967 Maserati Ghibli 4.7 Coupé
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
This is a 4.7, not a 4.9: the seller says this as the two models had different production numbers and the 4.9 is the scarcer of the Indy family built by Vignale. That, of course, doesn’t mean that you will find this Maserati behind the corner: it stills is a maserati produced in few specimens:… Read More The trident underdog: 1972 Maserati Indy 4.7
Differently from the Maserati tradition, this car was given the name of a star belonging to the Ursa Major constellation. And, differently from its predecessors, this car had not a tubular chassis but an unibody. Of course if you know the Maserati family it’s clear that this car has been designed to be the smaller sister… Read More Faded star: 1973 Maserati Merak 3000
When I was young I really loved this car; actually it was the only four doors car that I really liked as it was muscle. I liked also its squared shapes which, however, were pretty harmonized and streamlined, mostly because this is a huge car with a huge engine under the hood: this model was… Read More Manhattan transfer: 1980 Maserati Quattroporte
This Quattroporte has been, as the seller says, off road since many years. We would add that even before being parked, the previous owner didn’t care much about it. Indeed is for sure a complete car: it looks like it doesn’t miss anything and that’s because, luckily, it hadn’t the same destiny of many other… Read More Off road sedan: 1966 Maserati Quattroporte
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