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Monteverdi 375/4 in Australia

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  1. carl888

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    #1 carl888, Jun 14, 2014
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    In the late 1970s I was walking home from school and parked on the corner of Orrong and St. Georges Road Toorak was a Monteverdi 375/4 on the nature strip . Because I always carried my "Observers Book of Automobiles" with me, I worked out what it was. The owner came out from a nearby residence and noticed me looking at it and we struck up a conversation. I think he was somewhat amused seeing a 12 year old was peering through the window quoting facts and figures from the book.

    I recall the car quite well. It was a very dark blue with a deep burgundy interior. Nestled between the front seats was a woodgrain console that housed a black and white Sony television. It was a remarkable car and it seemed the perfect conveyance for a captain of industry or dictator. I was astounded at the time to see the speedometer calibrated to 280 km/h and a "High Speed" badge in chrome on the rear.

    Does anyone in Melbourne or beyond recall this car, or what became of it? After that fateful afternoon, I never saw it again. Perhaps the fact that 28 were made may have had something to do with it.

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  2. simon klein

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    Looks like it was parked next to another V8,4 door relic,the Maserati Quattroporte
     
  3. carl888

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    Simon, that's not a Quattroporte, it's a Lagonda Rapide.
     
  4. Horse

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    Whom's?
     
  5. carl888

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    Whom knows.
     
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    Whomb Motors might have one
     
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  10. yasmin

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    Carl,
    Mark Jansen at Oldtimer Australia may know; he owns 2 Monteverdi's.
    Not the same model, but he may know the owner.........
     
  11. littledino

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    That is such a cool looking car!

    The wheelbase looks like a 600!
     
  12. simon klein

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    Yes,my bad,I was tossing up which,without going to reference pics,quite different rearend's
     
  13. RPN

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    Whom was the owner of the aforementioned 'nearby residence'; at the time of your initial sighting ?

    This would be a simple matter of public record, thus enabling a further & specific enquiry.

    Perchance the property remains in the same family ?
     
  14. carl888

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    Good suggestion, thanks, email sent.
     
  15. carl888

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    Indeed, whom owned it no longer resides there, nor knows whom it may have been!
     
  16. RPN

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    But the Lands & Titles Orfice will ! !
     
  17. Whom

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    Thats daddys old car. He needed a large back seat
     
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    Was it not grandad that was the one who needed a large back seat for little people?
     
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    sicko
     
  20. I16

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    ..


    You did tell us about it prior to your last post.
     
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    Yeah, you wanna come for a ride?
     
  22. ExoticCarSite

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    Always loved the Monteverdi Hai 650F1.

    F1 motor revving to 11000rpm in a road car, whats not to like.
    2 reside in the Monteverdi Museum in Switzerland, and the other, I forget where.

    Even the old relic 450SS, 375 Monteverdi's are a stylish cars, as this thread shows in the first post.
     
  23. carl888

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    Update.

    The 375/4 to which I refer was first registered to the Swiss Consulate in Melbourne. The person I spoke to that day was the Swiss Consul who was visiting a friend. After they owned it for some years it was sold through the car yard on the corner of Alexandra Avenue and Chapel Street South Yarra and had a number of subsequent Melbourne owners. I found the car, it's still here.
     
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    That's where I bought my first Ferrari.
     
  25. carl888

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    I'm trying to recall the name back then, was it "Auto Classique?"
     

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