Monteverdi 375/4 in Australia

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

 

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

 

Whom's?

 

Whom knows.

 

Whomb Motors might have one

 

May be it is a film you need to make. All over France and Melbourne there are stories to be told.
Filmed in the P-O... LE FRANCAIS

 

Poor KIAI.
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I think they are all here.
Site officiel de la ville de Carcassonne - Tout le programme

 

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

 

That is such a cool looking car!

The wheelbase looks like a 600!

 

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

 

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 ?

 

Good suggestion, thanks, email sent.

 

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

 

But the Lands & Titles Orfice will ! !

 

Thats daddys old car. He needed a large back seat

 

Was it not grandad that was the one who needed a large back seat for little people?

 

sicko

 

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You did tell us about it prior to your last post.

 

Yeah, you wanna come for a ride?

 

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.

 

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.

 

That's where I bought my first Ferrari.

 

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