Maserati Kyalami

Hello. I am a new member here, I own the Maserati Kyalami prototype, made in 1975.
Serial nr 006.

 

Welcome Lucas. We'd love to see pictures of the car. Where are you located?

Joe
Ghibli SS #2110
Khamsin #1226
Mistral #1216
Bora #1046
Islero #6243
Mondial Cab #49713
Lele Marlboro #184
Laforza #159

 

I'm in Holland.

The car has been Alejandro de Tomaso's car.

 

Photos, please!

Ciao!
Walter

 

http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showpost.php?p=137646105&postcount=105

Lots of pictures of Lucas' car in this thread. Hope you don't mind me posting the link.
Great looking Kyalami Lucas.
Cheers



http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=194494

Entire thread. LOTS of pictures

 

Ahhh...the blue one! I know this car and saw it in Assen last year and in the Schwetzingen Concours where it won its class!

Nice Kyalami! (only very few people know who nice a Kyalami drives. It has a fantastic chassis and it takes every corner easily!).

Ciao!
Walter

 

@Walter:

This is a different one than the one that won in Schwetzingen.
The Schwetzingen one was # 164, this one is # 006.

All well for the rest? I hope to see you in Le Mans?

 

Here are some pics which I stole from the ones that were on the ferrarichat meeting.

And indeed it is a very nice ar to drive. great driving position, nice seats, good engine, quite fast. And not many people notice that it is a special car.. I like that.
My daily driver is a Maser 224, same idea. They all think it is a Toyota with a broken exhaust pipe.
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Ok, got that. But the cars look -almost!- identical.

Yep, I`ll be in LM this year.

Ciao!
Walter

 

@ Walter... welllll.. Identical...... LOL
You better get new glasses *grin*

This is my ex... the one you saw at Schwetzingen
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Ok, Ok...I admit - I was wrong. Its some years ago now. I like the ice-blue car more!

Ciao!
Walter

 

Priceless ... ;>))

 

For your sake I sure hope you're refering to the car. So you have a "thing" for Kyalamis then and blue to boot?

Bob S.

 

Thaaaaaank you!!!

Ciao!
Walter

 

LOL. I was referring to the Kya indeed, hadnt noticed the .. uhmm.... other stuff on the pic

 

Walter, since you seem to have a lot of documentary, can you find any documented history on #006? All I have is from hearsay...: the car has been a prototype, seems to have belonged to Alejandro de Tomaso, then belonged to the factory museum, then it seems to have been sold to a Dutch underworld drug-scene guy, was posessed by the dutch authorities, then auctioned and sold to the last owner and then to me... That is what I know.... Can you find something? Or do you know who to contact to find out more?

 

Lucas,
unfortunately I stop to collect VIN`s and other docs etc. about Maserati cars with the Khamsin. Otherwise its too much.

Only interest car from the modern range is the MC12 that caught my collectors-eye!

Ciao!
Walter

 

Lucas,

What is the name of the color of your current Kyalami? The reason I´m asking is that my Longchamp has a similiar color, but I´m not quite sure if it´s the same.

-Jani

 

"blue" . Seriously, I dont know. I just took a look under the bonnet. The VIN plate is there with VIN 129006, the other fields are left blank........... This is typical. Why bother to put it there? I think because this was a prototype, they dindnt think about doing that.

 

I was just wondering, as Kyalami was a De Tomaso era car, that they might have used a De Tomaso color.

Looking at a color chart, it could be "Celeste chiaro metallic" http://www.panteracars.com/colorchips503.pdf

In any case, it looks great on your car. Perhaps I should forget about changing the color of my car..

-Jani

 

Stunning Kyalami...a great name in tribute to what was a great circuit....

 

When I spent the first half of 2006 in Modena indexing an archive I walked many times in front of the Canalgrande hotel, which was owned by Alessandro de Tomaso and is still owned by his widow Isabelle Haskell de Tomaso.
A couple of times the private garage at the end of the block and deep inside you could see, covered in dust, a Longchamp and a Deauville: one bellhop who was there confirmed they were de Tomaso's personal cars...after a few months one of the cars was gone and I was told by another bellhop that it had been sold. There were no Masers in there though.

 

I have stayed in the Canalgrande, with the Maserati Club.
I parked my car in the parking garage belonging to the hotel. I havent seen any DeTo's though.

Btw. although the Longchamp and the Kyalami look alike, only the doors and the windows are exchangeable, so I have been told.....

 

I´m sure you are refering to the exterior of the cars only. It has been a great help to me to get some chassis parts via Maserati sources.

Great avatar picture! Any chance for posting it up in a larger scale?

-Jani

 

There you are....
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