At the start of this thread I mentioned there were a couple of Ghibli undergoing restoration inside the M25. Here's a picture of Mark's early example with Borrani's and low boot lid.


It looks remarkably rust free compared to my horror but it does have a few bits missing, come on Mark fill in some details for us.

Look what's lurking in the background as well!

Anyone feeling flush? One of Fangio's is up for sale...

http://historiccarsforsale.co.uk/historic-car-for-...

Come on Euromillions...

Hello all, I'm very glad that Mr.Chadspeed has initiated this thread, as I think until recently all the pre Biturbo era Maseratis have been rather neglected, certainly when compared with their contemporaries from Ferrari, and more recently Lamborghini.
Roger has posted a picture of the project Ghibli which I am working on, so for those interested, here is the background and some more details.
I have wanted a Ghibli since I saw a picture of an orange one in the Ladybird book of cars when I was about 7 or 8 years old. Sadly by the time I came to look around, their prices had accelerated to such an extent that a decent one was out of reach.
I then spent a year searching for a good Khamsin with no luck, until late last year I found a project Ghibli in the South of France which looked in need of saving.....So to cut a long story short, having viewed and audited the parts, I decided to take the plunge and the car arrived in the UK in January 2012. The picture Roger posted is of the car whilst in France.
In all honesty, the chassis looks much the same at the moment. It is basically sound, having had new floors and door bottoms and skins at some stage, the work has been nicely done with great shutlines, but the front under valance and the battery box/spare wheel well are in need of re-fabrication
The car is missing rather a lot of bits, so I have been steadily ticking them off my shopping list, which is sometimes painfully expensive, and at others pleasingly wallet friendly. Maserati used Fiat 124 door handles for example, which were relatively cheap!
The car is an early one, chassis 274, so it has a very elegant dashboard with an impressive selection of Lucas toggle switches. It also has the 'drop down' bootlid, and the best bit, Borrani wire wheels with proper 'Knock-on' fittings. It was delivered in March 1968 in Pavia Northern Italy and from following Roger’s Ghibli restoration thread, I gather alot of people will be pleased that it will be restored to its original colour...Verde Gemma, the eye-searing lime green.
At some stage the car was in a bankruptcy sale, prior to which it lost its original engine. The vendor sourced a correct early engine with the proper ‘twin plug’ head castings but that is also in bits awaiting attention which will include crank grinding, new pistons and liners, valves, springs etc etc.
As you can probably tell by now there is a long way to go on this one! But I am making steady progress towards a complete car, and have imposed a target of early 2018 ready for the 50th birthday.
Regarding Gold colours for Ghiblis, Ivan Ruiz at the car nut website has a selection of Glidden paint chips which were current at the time. The most likely ones seem to be Oro Longchamps, Beige Indy and Oro Metallizzato, which is a bit more brown.
Anyway, here is a picture of a car in what I think is Oro Longchamps and it does look splendid. Very best regards to all.

Mark

I've posted this before but it was amazing!,

Go Ghibli , that's the Gold Colour !!!! That could be my dads one , AM 115100 !! any info on that photo ?? I am looking at the Original Papers for my dads one right now !!

I just have to see that car again .....

Hi Mark, thanks for the info. Re the alloys, pretty sure it had the same rims, but unable to get the photos from my mums loft at the mo to confirm.
My dads one was shipped to the States in early 1976 and was according to the US Maserati Club, owned by someone in Carmel for many years. I believe it went to Germany sometime before 2006. Someone in The German Maserati club told me in 06 that a Doctor out there owned it, but wouldn't tell me any more..... Very strange, as I was making arrangements to fly out and view it .

The trail is stone cold at the moment.

I forgot to attach the photo!! here it is. The thing I would suggest is to register at ferrarichat and go to their Maserati section under other cars. There are some very knowledgeable people there, including on gentleman in particular by the name of Walter Baeumer. He has quite a big file of Ghibli history, and he is German. Just post asking for more info on your dad's old car. The current owner may wish to remain anonymous I suppose, but I think you will get some history on the car at least. Cheers. Mark.

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Maserati Mistrale, anyone have any experience of them ? Doesnt seem to be much info available on them .

Were many sold new here ? Available Colours ? A Drophead was available, but these appear to be like rocking horse dung . Just found a White ? Drophead that a dealer ( Goldseal Sports Cars , London ) had for sale in Dec 73s Motor Sport Mag. Lovely looking car.

Ime guessing that the Mistrale was originally aimed at the US Market .

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