Hi Mike, Thank you for the mention but It does not show on on Ebay... (and I do know how to search) please copy paste the link here. 1010 was owned for many years (along with a Bora) by Dick Chicklas in, if I recall correctly, the Chicago area. Both cars still had the big US bumpers back then, here two photos from Chicklas. Years before In VCM '87 he wrote of how much he liked it stating it was "practical like an old shoe." Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Hello Marc... Unfortunately, I cannot paste the link here... It doesn't seem to work for me... Perhaps someone else can! As Ivan indicates, he owned 1010 at one time.. I think I saw this car in KY once, at the Keeneland Concours... At any rate, per the e-bay photos, the bumpers have been changed to Euro spec, and the black paint surrounding the bottom portion of the car appears to have been changed to body color! The photos show a nice interior... Mike
Hi Mike, that is bizarre, yes if someone else can post the link thanks in advance, I need to save the data, photos and perhaps speak with the seller. Yes Ivan and I discussed it years ago, I saw his post. It was identical in livery to the Keeneland car at the time but not the same. That was 1028. 1028: Before Keeneland 1028 was owned by Ed Waterman of Motorcar Gallery (4 photos scanned together below) then by that chap in Kentucky whom I met during the 2004 concours when I was event MC. A very nice guy but deferred maintenance car. Then it was bought by an Austrian in Vienna who had five Khamsins at that point which was then a world record. Then it passed through the hands of a couple of Austrian dealers, one of which converted the front bumper (the rear had been done ages before) I saw it shown by one of them at the 2020 Padova show. It was then bought by an Italian living in the far northeast of Italy who had it repainted in verde pino, much better for a K than plain red, and took part in the Trieste concours in May 2022. In so doing he deleted the big US rectangular indicators. He also sorted out the rear exhausts properly. When doing a conversion, after cutting out the rear US bumper holding brackets the mufflers need to be flipped upside down, switched from side to side so that the tips come out neatly just under the bodyshell. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
I also used to own 1028 having bought the car from the son of a friend in Kentucky https://thecarnut.com/khamsin75-1028/ 1010 was located near Boston. I recall driving early one morning from New Haven CT while visiting my daughter in college. I was back in New Haven by noon having purchased the Khamsin and the Bora. Ivan
Thanks Ivan. Ah yes 1010 in Boston with Chicklas. 1028: the owner I met at the Kentucky concours summer 2004 was Greg Howell. Small world he said the only other K he had seen, ever, was a gold car in Wisconsin at Elkhart Lake (meaning my 1242!). My files show that you sold it with your Ghibli spyder to Austria in March 2011.
Here is a link to it. It doesn't show when you search Khamsin, they missed out the H.... Only Maserati..... https://www.ebay.com/itm/235692915647?itmmeta=01J5AWMGKV1GT5X5E56WXKRHV1&hash=item36e0647bbf:g:1OQAAOSwIsFmuUsW&amdata=enc:AQAJAAAAwIGlUAWZBx1gbu/RwYCIK9z4lUcZVDc1RU8Az3/SqsgbcEVPcAgKg9C7pBtTcOBk1CEHWsNJDoNbg5g2jNwUwG0B9lsGMs2JzAcqkY2raHB3RBTShs0eZcXXpzk/ihn/4l1bVc2mmDnH7DrchQtiaMPu3dOWc7T8zEBfCUNiWyiIZpTMds9yidltzSPsNucp/Tr9MOBRbJeTUztfLpNb7lkibSi1jTRXroBFef+4KvEOOaWj2q5iBRhwQBEYCNfuAg==|tkp:Bk9SR4CK0tyqZA
Thank you Mark, much appreciated. Ah yes the rare "Kamsin" version, at least I prefer that misspelling to "Khasmin" which is another common error! It even has "Erin" bumpers but what do you expect from Billy Bob Bubba's garage. In any case someone will get a Baaaahgain.... What a bunch of clowns, shooting themselves in the foot with an auction as bad as the title...
For the first time ever a Khamsin (AM120US1236) will be taking part in the Pebble beach concours! That is wonderful recognition! Here it is yesterday 15/8/24 taking part in the Pebble Beach tour for concours participants behind a Merc 540K. Sorry it is the only photo I could find so far. Image courtesy the dealer Oldtimer Australia (yes the whole world converges on Monterey). In case of points tie during concours judging any car that did the tour as opposed to remain an idle sterile queen in its trailer gets the tie breaking point and rightly so. I asked a friend to take photos of it at the concours this coming Sunday. This car previously won best of show at concours on the great lakes in Canada, 2012, profile photo taken that day. In other news Khamsin #378 just won second in the Maserati 110 year celebration class at the Zurich Switzerland concours; congrats Daniel S.! This car was dark blue, owned by a Munich, Germany collector until Daniel, also based in that city, bought it recently. He had it put back to its original Luci del Bosco (a subtle shade of brown, it means lights of the forest), a stunning color and car. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
PS: Here another photo of 378, during the actual Zurich Burkliplatz concours this week where it won 2nd overall in the Maserati 110th anniversary class. Photo by Daniel. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Excellent result! what a pretty location for the concours. Right on the shore of the Zurichsee. As a bonus, if I remember correctly, it is only a 5 minute walk over the bridge to the epic and very long standing Sternen sausage house, which has been going for 60 odd years. HmmmmHmmmm. Those wurst are the BEST Hungry now. M
Two screen captures of #1236 from videos taken during Thursday's Pebble Beach tour. It truly is a major milestone to have one invited in the world's preeminent concours, amidst Duesenbergs, Isotta Frachinis and Bugattis. Of course the organizers are awake to passing time and have embraced other even more recent cars, this year there is even a class for BPR and FIA GT racing cars...from the 1990's. Still even ten years ago a K at Pebble would not have been on the cards so this is major progress in terms of Khamsin recognition. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Congratulations for the excellent result to Daniel S. However, I do not quite understand how the colour 'Luci del bosco' is mixed, as every time I see a car in that colour it comes out in a different shade. Or it just happens to change enormously depending on the ambient light and direction the photo is taken. This same name for a colour was used incidentally by different car makers like Alfa Romeo, Lamborghini and I think even Ferrari, each one surely with their own interpretation of it. I loved the way it was rendered in that fabulous model of the Khamsin made by Replicars in the Netherlands. There was a silver, a light green and that beautiful 'Luci del bosco' version they made, which is to me by far the best version. The translation means 'lights of the woods' and evokes that wonderful shimmering mix of sunlight, green and yellow leaves and brown tree branches. So not really a colour of its own, but more a remembrance of wandering through deciduous forests like a chestnut forest. By the way I have some notes on 378 on my records that may be of interest, as it was advertised in the past, once even including a photograph of the original 'Luci del bosco'. Regards, Roger Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Hi Roger, You are absolutely right, each Emilian manufacturer's take on Luci del Bosco is a bit different. And yes, it is absolutely one of those colors that comes across in all kinds of ways in photos depending on light. Synonyms for the translation of bosco are grove thicket, copse, coppice, and yes you put it very well it is a romantic description of a romantic color, that subtle ever varying half light under the canopy, very Italian. I have those 1/43 scale K's you mention, There is also the 1/18 scale Minichamps which is now absolutely impossible to find. I wish they would produce another run of them but the company is very badly managed by the heirs apparently. In my personal collection my favorite one for sentimental reasons is the Homburg 1/43 scale made in the 80's (as far as I know), it is imperfectly proportioned, the bonnet/hood is too long but I was hugely happy to obtain one in gold in October 2001, I bought it remotely from the shop of Johan Stegny in Vienna; it was his last new old stock. One photo below shows it on top of my K 20 years ago. Later I found another Homburg, dark red on Ebay. I had a plainer model (IXO) painted fly yellow. Finally I had a 1/43 Minichamps made into the K spyder AM120US1030 and gave it to its longtime Parisian owner JCP. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Hi Mark, several Khamsins have exceeded that mileage, which is great to know and of course they ae the best long distance grand tourer of that era
Growing up in the USA Bosco was a brand of chocolate syrup for milk and ice cream ... Originated in New Jersey! Image Unavailable, Please Login
Here is AM120US1236 at the Pebble Beach concours yesterday, image courtesy Monterey Herald. As mentioned it is the first ever K to be invited there, a wonderful premiere! I hope to see the K prototype there in the next few years. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Hello Marc, i think that this could be a typo by the newspaper. In Germany, vehicle owners usually write the word "original" in front of the mileage, if the vehicle has a particularly low mileage. I suspect that the car probably had 15.000 km on the clock. Kind regards Zdenek
Hi Zdenek, Who knows but I doubt it as it already had 16000kms in an older ad (see that post). FYI 392, 389, 445 are some of the cars that accumulated hug mileage in Europe, likewise a red automatic in California owned by a doctor for many years. The owner of 445 had homes in London, Paris and Germany and drove it between the three numerous times a year. Fritz Harms then president o the Maserati club Holland, drove 392 all over Europe including down to Modena for an annual winter service at Tralli's. 389 for example earned best preservation at KHAMSIN CINQUANTA in June 2023 and has as of today at least 102000 Miles (160000+ kilometres) Its owner Jeremy has crossed the channel many times with it, he has driven it all over Europe, to Italy, Sweden and Denmark as well as to KHAMSIN QUARANTA in 2012 in Burgundy.
Hi Guys, could I pester you all with another question on my early Khamsin ownership. It’s been reasonably hot here this summer in the UK but I was getting familiarised with things and noticed the choke was not attached under the dash the cable having been cut off. The car has had extensive work so it’s no oversight….does the nature of the car mean it will fire up without choke on colder days?
Hi Gary, In all the years I’ve owned my car I’ve never used the choke. So you should be fine if the carbs are working well. Bal
