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
In recent years, the classic-car market has looked broadly flat: less hype, more selectivity, and more attention to total cost (purchase price plus recommissioning and restoration). That matters only up to a point for us. We publish these cars anyway because, regardless of market cycles, they capture modern automotive history in a direct way—style, technology,… Read More Aged like wine: 1966 Maserati Mistral 4.0 Coupé
Painting chrome parts black was an old (and rough) trick to cover up rust spots that had started to compromise the chrome. It was a cheap fix for cheap cars (at the time). But this is no ordinary car: it’s one of about 450 Mistrals equipped with the ultimate version of Maserati’s legendary inline six-cylinder… Read More No chrome: 1967 Maserati Mistral 4.0 by Frua
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
This is one of the early Mistral built as the seller says that this is the 56th cars out of Frua coachworks, it needs a full restoration but it seems solid. Indeed this car has for sure stored well and in a dry climate because very few signs of deep rust can be spotted on the… Read More Solid silver: 1964 Maserati Mistral
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 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 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
