Maserati Khamsin

Automatic eggplant, best grilled with some virgin olive oil, parmesan, salty pepper and touch of lemon juice. Oh wait I forgot that this has wheels ... never mind ...
Total resto-mod with a really nice modern automatic or manual.

 

Hahahah this it is the car that was unsold at the Bonhams Monterey auction 11 months ago because of a really poor catalog text and also because of how it is. It had lived very secluded in Oregon or somewhere in those parts, obviously because the owners had never heard of a Euro bumper kit and instead ordered their shop to paint the bumpers....

it was then bought post auction by Gullwing who very quickly sold it to someone in Europe as has been the pattern for decades... but clearly the funds ran out before the resto started....

 

https://www.mcgrathmaserati.co.uk/cars-for-sale/1981-maserati-khamsin/

One for sale in the UK.seems really cheap

 

The two articles the car featured in at the time were some of the very few on K's in those days. The owner was a very colourful character who answered he could afford the car because he did not waste his money at the pub (though he did not put it so politely ).

I saw the car at McGrath's April 2019, it is a very decent car to enjoy and now thoroughly sorted out by Andy Heywood and his team.

 

393 is now back in the land of the living.....

 

this is 1st Khamsin I’ve seen where the hydraulic lines on the rack are also painted green.

 

Neil fantastic work and many congratulations exactly five years to the month after you bought it!

For everyone else this is a car that had been part for about 25 years so yes it was in limbo.

All that was known about it was that it had been owned by a Rick Lee ad was refrecned as such in the UK club database in 2001.

Did you go for original colors or personal choice?

Interestingly another RHD, 375 which is a project available for anyone who is very ambitious as it is quite rusty, has the same colors: see below.

In any case case I hope you join us at KHAMSIN CINQUANTA June 15-18 next year!




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I am trying to determine, without having to pull the alternator from the engine, if the Khamsin alternator has an external or internal regulator. If it has an external regulator ... where is it hidden?

Ivan

 

Some of you may recall the ex Sultan of Brunei K 333 subsequently very heavily modified. It has an Australian Holden V8 engine since the original broke early in the car's life after which it sat for decades in a dark corner in the Sultan's collection until it was decided most likely by the Sultan's spendthrift brother Jeffri Bolkiah to do the modifications. The car after passing through New Zealand ended up with UK dealer DD Classics.

Well in the middle of Le Mans Classic weekend early July I received an email from an English enthusiast stating that he had just bought it. He was interested in coming to KAHMSIN CINQUANTA June 15-18 next year near Geneva Switzerland.
I tried encouraging him to bring it back to original condition, sourcing a Khamsin engine.

However he has had some tuned Panteras, likes modified cars and has decided to enjoy the car as is which is his right and I wished him much enjoyment. Needless to say if his car showed up at KHAMSIN CINQUANTA Maserati Classiche staff would have a collective heart attack so he did not make a fuss and fully understood that the car cannot come which was good of him. Some of you in the UK might see it at events.

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I see that once useful Eurospares website is now of no help in this as a research tool. Their new format may be much cleaner and with far less glitches but it also has lost a lot of very valuable information.

However since it shows via part number 107/2 ME 65079 that it's also utilized on the Ghibli then I think you can assume there's no internal regulator. Not such a bad conversion idea though ... put something Delco from the 90's on it with a higher output!

 

It does look to be the same alternator as the Ghibli, which has an external regulator. This leaves the question as to where the heck did they hide the regulator on a Khamsin. I have photos of prior Khamsins with the dash disassembled and I cannot spot the voltage regulator.
Ivan

 

From memory that isn’t what it once was, check under glovebox

 

I found the voltage regulator, it is to the right of the steering column. The reason I initially did not recognize it as a regulator is someone replaced it with an electronic aftermarket. I though it was a relay for some of the DOT mandated junk these cars have. I replaced it with one the extra Bosch regulators I have and the problem is still present. The voltage drops from around 14 volts to to around 12.5 volts when the AC is on and to about 12 volts when the headlights are also on. That happens even is I rev up the engine so it appears the alternator cannot keep up with the amperage demand. Now I need to figure out if the problem is the alternator not providing enough amperage or the car consuming too much do to perhaps too much electrical resistance. More work to be done ...

Ivan

 

... the regulator is an external type, situated under the dash / foot compartment drivers side. BOSCH.
good luck.
Marek

 

A mystery sighting at the Nurburging Oldtimer Grand Prix last weekend.

Not sure which it is. It could be 1004 with a bit of a face lift; it already had such wheels but not in gold. It could be 368 redone in Germany but was all nicely done in rosso Cordoba so can't imagine it color changed again.

But my best bet is that it could be 1264 which used to be black red automatic and was repainted gold in Germany in recent years; it does have that type of external mirror though the front lights are different in the last photos I have of it, otherwise it seems to match perfectly...hmmm...anybody?

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Yea hate the wheels, btw is the Ghibli Prungia?

 

The Ghibli is off topic and proper spelling is prugnia which is Italian for plum. Looks like Prugnia yes. Further discussion in Ghibli thread please.

The wheels... Just plain wrong, not at all suited to a K, I agree with you

 

you’re on a snit, a typo and a question about the color of a different model Maserati in a photo with a Khamsin in it!

 

Those Khamsin wheels are HORRENDOUS, they look like they were stolen from a model T Ford!

 

Sorry did not mean to be harsh, I wish I could have cut out the Ghibli before posting.

 

Agreed.
They are produced by Musketier in Germany, 8J18 and 10J18, way too large and ...unfit Image Unavailable, Please Login

 

I don't mind them. At the time it meant that you could get decent tires easily.

 

‘considering the wheels wish the Ghibli was pulled up further forward to hide them. Besides the Ghibli is stunning in Plum

 

Bob,
That Bora look familiar? Picture the wheels in Red!

 

no.