I just completed a full renovation of AM116*49*2174. I sundenly wonder what are is the last VIN number produced? Image Unavailable, Please Login
The Indy engine mounts have a ‘steel wool’ like material inside the spring (see below pic) I assume this acts like a shock or vibration absorber? I can obtain new springs for the mounts but have yet to find a supplier for the ‘steel wool’ material… any suggestions? Image Unavailable, Please Login
Hi Mark. The mountings were made by Vibrachoc originally. Now owned by Hutchison. They appear to be very similar to Ghibli mounts (not surprising!) You can see that the metal cushions are still made here. https://www.vibrachoc.es/product/metallic-cushions/?lang=en I don’t know if that is just for wholesale supply though, but it’s a start. Happy hunting. Mark.
Just placed my 4,9l for sale if anyone interested. Fully restored, Independnat expert value 180K Euros. 140K Euros spend on it. https://www.carandclassic.com/la/C1793682
Original Vitaloni stalks are indeed fragile and unrepairable. Hence quite difficult to source as used in good condition or NOS parts. I found one by chance from Biturbo parts, a vendor in Italy, he had two of them. Bought one...in case mine breaks! You may contact him. Image Unavailable, Please Login
That's a high price for an Indy 4900. It looks in perfect condition following your costly restoration, but currently the market is not that great and Indys are not highly valued. Curious to see if you succed in your sale. Bonne chance!
Fyi, there is currently another red Indy 4900 auctioned on carandclassics: https://www.carandclassic.com/auctions/1973-maserati-indy-4900-n9w658. It will be interesting to see how the market values such a car if it sells.
That isn’t necessarily true. I’ve found a company, Oddparts, in California that does repair and improve the Vitaloni turn signal stalks and does an upstanding job. They are very well known in the restoration industry with many of their jobs on cars at Pebble Beach.
Although its a very good GT-car and has the very best aerodynamic of all classic Maserati GTs, an Indy is not easy to sell and in particular, a red one!
The Pirelli CN12 are back in stock https://www.longstonetyres.co.uk/215-70wr15-pirelli-cinturato-cn12.html Wer also have the earlier tyre 205 VR 15 Tyres - Classic PIRELLI CINTURATO ™ CN72
That Indy 4900 sold for only 42 000 £ : https://www.carandclassic.com/auctions/1973-maserati-indy-4900-n9w658#bidding-history Very cheap...
That is the market now alas, at least the severe end of the price bracket. Upper would be 80K in GB Pounds. Indy's are great cars, true GT's, handsome, with room for four and luggage so Madame can't argue about lack of room to travel but they have always been under the radar, a great pity.
Yes, so decided the market. It will be challenging for @JEANW to sell his quite similar red Indy 4900 with an "expert" valuation of 180 k€. Better wait some time for the market to recover a bit...
I am dealing with a Sebring client now, his car is superbly restored but he dreams of getting a 2015 top of the market price... hopelessly unrealistic and blindly stubborn...so I sent him a photo of an ostrich with it's head buried. He also has an "expert" valuation...from 2015...
It's also a LHD example in the UK which doesn't help. A lot of potential buyers wouldn't know of this car on the block to begin with as it's not bring a trailer. Great buy, really like these. Now what really shocked me was the Merak SS engine that hammered for $18k on BaT the other day. Unreal. Yes it was rebuilt by David Hume some 5-6 years ago, but the car was also in a flood so we really don't know the state of the engine, probably fine but who knows.
I see the non running but otherwise decent looking black Bora sold for €40k something last month on car and classic as well. It’s a buyer’s market for sure.
All my turn signal lights (front and rear, left and right) do not work anymore. Apparently all the fuses in the fuse box look ok and I have not found any fuse related to turning lights in the fuse box. There are fuses for the "luci posizione", numbers 3 and 4 but not for the turning lights: Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Any tip to where to look?
Could be the intermittence unit (flasher can) for directional signals which is 92 on the wiring diagram in the Indy handbook, and located under the dash. These are universally to many cars and should be easy to find a replacement at your local parts store. Or the actual column stalk that operates the turn signals could have failed, you would need to test this with a ‘multimeter’
I checked on the Indy handbook and the number of the intermittence unit seems to be 52 actually. But more importantly, do you know what it looks like, and where under the dash it would be (my car is a 4900)?
Apologies regarding the wiring diagram number, my Indy is an early 4200 so the diagram number is different. The intermittence unit should be on the passenger side of your car under the dash… unfortunately my Indy is an early 4200 with ‘twin pod dash’ design and is also right hand drive so it is different in layout to yours and I’ve not seen a 4900 in the metal. The original intermittence unit is a small metal cylinder approx 60mm long and 25mm in diameter as per the attached picture. I should have mentioned that if it is working it will admit a ticking sound when your operate the turn signal stalk. Kind regards, Mark
Thank you Mark, that's already a very useful info. I doubt (and so hope) that Maserati didn't change many of such components in the Indy during its production. I will explore the under dash!
