Any interest in a thread on Sebrings? Ivan could start by posting pix of his Ruby-colored one......? Any other owners here? When did the tailights change?
This is a series 1, built in January 1964 and dispatched in September 1964 to a company in Rome. Factory has not been able to tell me what they did with the car for the 8 months they had it after it was built. Was in California from the 1970's until 1999, then Texas and now Georgia. AC was added in Texas and works well. Converted to Webers. Car is for sale. Details at: The Car Nut - 1965 Maserati Sebring Ivan Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Series 1 Sebrings have round tail lights like the 3500GTi while the series 2 have rectangular tail lights like the Mexico and QP1. Ivan
Here's a series II that was in Norway for several years after having been imported from the USA. It was sold, I believe to someone in Austria, in 2011. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Yes lets have a thread for this beautiful and widely almost unknown "gem" The Sebring (especially the series 1) is in my eyes on of the most beautiful GT cars of the sixties and it is for me an absolute mystery why it is so undervalued - it has it all... the name, the rarity and especially the looks. But lets hope this sooner or later will be recognized by the market. I can't think of another car to this price level with the same amount of style and elegance. If the Sebring (series 1) was valued as Aston Martin DB5 I would anytime pick the Sebring. If I actually had the DB5 I would sell it and buy a Sebring instead and then have 200k Euro on the side - yes the world and classic market is sometime crazy.. or maybe it is just me Cheers
According to litrature I have found from Maserati 1962 Maserati 3500 GTIS 1963 Maserati 3500 GTi Sebring 1964-65 Maserati 3500/3700 Sebring 1965 Maserati 3700 Sebring 1966-1969 Maserati 4000 Sebring Comments and corrections always welcome! ~Trev
This is my Sebring Serie 1 # 1989 original with Weber 42 DCOE's Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
A very nice dark metallic gray? one @ Retrolegends in NL. Nice color combination of dark gray meet. and creme interior. Are all Sebrings 5 speed? Any notable suspension changes betw. series? I happen to favor the horizontal rectangular taillights, but don't let my idiosyncrasies deter you from posting round-light cars....!
Here are pictures of my SII Sebring 0167 delivery date september 1964. Restoration is hard and sometimes very slow. by the way some of these pics are old. When i purchased the car it was yellow, then came the restoration------ The photo of the seat frames shows how far the car has come apart...... As for the engine parts- that shows the difference of the old vs. the new... we have shaved over 8 lbs from the reciprocating mass. so far---- Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
WOW! looks like you took most of the 8 lbs just from the rods!! Is that all custom machining or are the rods fabricated new? (and thank you for deleting the yellow) What will the repaint be? Interior? How long has this been going on? (I was going to paint my GTC that color of yellow, with blue leather!!....then sanity intervened...)
My 1963 Sebring # 1867 Colour combo (silver metallic and red leather) is as delivered. Was also originally delivered with wired Borranis. First owner was an itallian lady (I would have liked to meet a lady with so much style) - Sorry only have this picture on the computer I am sending from. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Here is the original toolset from # 1989........ only the big lead hammer has been used !! Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
I am curious as to why the tool kit has an octagonal knock off wrench when the car appears to have winged knock offs. Did your car originally have octagonal knock offs? Ivan
That's an interesting observation Ivan. Are you saying that tool-rolls were compiled according to any particular car's specifications, and thus differ from each other? I have been wondering this for a while, prompted by tool-rolls with lead hammers in cars with bolt-on wheels. Great initiative starting this thread, kudo's to the OP. The Sebring is a wonderful machine, and I am still aching from missing out on a good example some 7 or 8 years ago here in SA. Can't remember the chassis number, a series 1 LHD car, red but originally blue, on Borrani's. Car went to a friend/collector on the Natal South Coast (who no doubt did it justice) Best, Jack.
@ Ivan, The car came with both winged and octacon wheelnuts, in the early sixties winged knockoffs were illegal in some cities in Holland and Germany. Saluti Rudy.
Here is the very big looking engine, with new JE pistons and SS manifolds ( MIE ) Image Unavailable, Please Login
On Ghiblis the tool kits were tailored to the car. Ghiblis with starburst wheels (fake knock off covering the bolts) came with the octagonal tool to remove the center cap while cars with bolt on wire wheels did not have this tool. This lead to to wonder as to why there would be an octagonal tool on a Sebring with winged knock offs. I guess with Maserati anything is possible. Ivan
Hello abo, Can you tell me what Maserati called the color of your car. I have a Sebring I that is in the body shop and it was originally Grigio Albany, but I think I prefer the color of your car. I am going to test several paint colors to see which one I will use, but I would like to include your color in my review. Thanks very much for any help you can provide. Lou D'Amore
Interesting detail coming clear to me; the precise design of the dual headlights on the early series cars is a beautifully shaped little valley detail betw the individual lights, almost feminine. On the later series the lights have gotten a bit 'clunkier', morphed into a unit, possibly to avoid the costly forming detail? As well, the ancillary lights grew; not as minimalist. Regs intruding, no doubt. Love it all!
Good point. The front fenders and how they flow into the lights on the early cars reminds me a little bit of the XJ6... but not exactly.
Hello Lou D'Amore According to my Maserati build cheet is is called: "Argento Auteuil" (silver) (Max Meyer code 16.287) Hope this helps! Cheers ABO
There is alrady a Sebing thread here, so perhaps they should be merged? http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/maserati/227506-official-3500-gtis-sebring-series-i-ii-photo-thread.html
