Classic Maseratis...

[P5BNij]

I thought I'd start a thread on Masers of old, enjoy a nice wallow in nostalgia at your leisure...;)

One of the eight RHD Ghiblis at Gaydon recently, this one is an auto...






Childhood memory...




The Boomerang concept of 1972...














Ghibli photoshoot in Rome, 1969...










One of Giugiaro's sketches for the Bora...


































I went down to a dealer near Marlow in 2010 to buy the Mk2 Cooper seen here, I had to grab a shot of the Indy while I was there...

[P5BNij]

As I've already said in your own thread - what a stunner, and very welcome!

In some ways Maserati are (almost) the forgotten marque amongst Italian exotica, but then they've always been a little more 'distant' than Ferrari, if that makes sense.

[P5BNij]

As far as I'm concerned it's for anyone to post any classic Maseratis they like! I took a photo of a red Khamsin at Stoneleigh a few years ago, I'll see if I can find it.

(In my original post, the gunmetal grey and green Ghiblis, the red and brown Indys and red Bi-Turbo shots were taken by me )

Edited by P5BNij on Saturday 12th November 14:06

Edited by P5BNij on Saturday 12th November 14:07

[P5BNij]

I bagged this lovely Khamsin at the NEC a few years ago...

[P5BNij]

Love these.....

Edited by P5BNij on Tuesday 28th May 20:58

[P5BNij]

greysquirrel said:

P5BNij said:

I thought I'd start a thread on Masers of old, enjoy a nice wallow in nostalgia at your leisure...;)

One of the eight RHD Ghiblis at Gaydon recently, this one is an auto...
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Currently for sale at the classic motor hub, £160k.

Just found the ad on carandclassic whilst looking for something else, very nice. Some lovely Indys and a couple of Meraks for sale on there too.

A few photos from the Centenary gathering in Bologna...

[P5BNij]

Beautifil cars gents, very nice.

Slurpysi - how come you've had to wait so long for the Indy's logbook...?

[P5BNij]

I bet you can't wait to drive it...

[P5BNij]

slurpysi said:

Hi all

This beauty has been sitting in my garage for the last few months awaiting the logbook from the DVLA, very frustrating.

Should be next week apparently, can't wait

Any classic Maserati owners on this forum in Southeast Kent / Sussex area ?

Any joy with the logbook slurpysi…?

[P5BNij]

Fingers crossed it turns up asap. Would love to see some more photos of it..

[P5BNij]

I can imagine your relief now that it has arrived!

Another Indy with the same rear lights as yours, this one is a 1970 RHD manual which is currently for sale...

[P5BNij]

I think there must have been an overlap of 'model year' changeover period around the end of 1970 / into 1971, the blue car I posted above is a 1970 built car with the original style 'hexagonal' dash layout, this was replaced with a much plainer looking dash similar to the Ghibli, I'm guessing the rear lights were changed on an ad hoc basis as cars came down the production line around the same time. Typically Italian really!

[P5BNij]

Early Indy dash, 1969 / 70 model year...



Later version, 1970 / 71 onwards...

[P5BNij]

I'd happily sit there all day long...!

[P5BNij]

You should move to Warwickshire, we've got some great roads up here! My envy has also gone up a notch reading that you've had Urracos in the past too, I'd love one of those some day... . Were they RHD...?

[P5BNij]

I recognise both of those Urracos, very nice! My love for the Indy stems from having the Airfix kit as a nipper, my uncle worked in the Airfix factory at the time and brought a box full of damaged kits round for Christmas for me to build. Seeing these cars at the NEC shows every year is quite an eyeful, they still look exotic even now.

[P5BNij]

You could also say (perversely, granted) that the bi-turbo era kept Maserati from disappearing altogether, before being taken under Ferrari's wing in the late '90s. I see what you're getting at with the Aston tag, Maserati were always 'apart' from all the other Italian firms somewhere, not quite sure how to define it but that's my take on it.

[P5BNij]

At the Goodwood Revival last month...

One of the seven RHD Quattroporte 1s, photos really don't do these cars justice - in two dimensional images they can look awkward from some angles but in the metal, well, this one fair took my breath away...

[P5BNij]

I'd imagine there's a register in the Maserati Club, they only built 759 of them between 1963 and 1969 with only seven in RHD. I believe all seven are still about and there are still a fair number of LHD ones in the UK. Google images brings up photos of lots of different cars on UK plates.

[P5BNij]

That'll be a fantastic project for somebody, I hope it finds a good home. Was the QP that you looked at the silver one with a black roof near Market Harborough...?