Hi all, I am looking for a book about the classic Maserati Road cars (mainly A6G-2000 to the first Ghibli). Which one would you recommend? Thanks
I have this book and it is a great catalogue but not a great read or insight on the people involved in my opinion. We need a modern bible , well written on this era like Marc Sonnerys Maserati, the Citroen years for the later cars There are a few coffee table books which I can add tomorrow but they seem a little lightweight in text Julian
That's the proper bible: MASERATI A complete history from 1926 to the present by Luigi Orsini and Franco Zagari
Is it? I've heard good stories about this book. Is the Maserati 100 book better in text than Crump's 1946-1979?
Don't forget the Maserati book by Maurizio Tabucchi, while it is a bit wooden it is the most serious and RECENT history of the WHOLE marque (which my book is not, just 68-75). The factory book, 100 years I have not even bothered buying, it is mediocre, dumbed down, done by Fiat, they forgot the 1990's Barchetta for example. The Orsini Zagari book is of course a treasure and the day it arrived in my mailbox in Fort Lauderdale in the mid 1990's was a special one, it is almost 900 pages after all (I had the pleasure of meeting both authors in 2006 with Zagari at Villa d'Este relating private dealings he had with Enzo Ferrari, a special moment I must say) but it is decades old, hence obsolete in many ways and the translation to English is appallingly boring (I think the translator was in a severe depression, really) and it is nigh on impossible to read for any length of time. It would be fantastic if it were redone properly and updated in terms of text and photos So I would say the Tabucchi book is the best choice, while the smaller but great effort by Martin Buckley is very much worth having, I have always been incapable of just putting the essential bits, am obsessed with putting everything there but Martin did a great synthesis. Those collection of article booklets are a great window into the past for all Modenese marque's, read them all avidly as a teenager in the late 70's, 80's As you will have noticed collecting Maserati books is a wonderful pursuit, just like the scale models whereas collecting Ferraris of either form is ridiculous as it never ends and most of it is questionable in quality. Best regards, Marc
While we are on the subject of books but not road cars. What is the best technical book on the 450S series of cars?