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Tipo???...and this is 3500???

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  1. 3500 GT

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    Maserati 5000 GT Bertone Coupe #104.004 now running on Mexico engine.
     
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    The car is in a original condition! It was missing 40 years ago.
    This photo was taken in Valencia Spain.

    Best regards
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  4. wbaeumer

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    eh...not 100% correct! The car left the factory in a different color-sheme, a darker green with tan leather interior!

    Its unclear if the car was delivered first with a 5000 GT-engine. Fact is, that the car has since many years a Mexico-4.2-liter engine installed!

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    Beautiful lines!

    Some 5000GT look awkward, but this one flows nicely.

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    +1 agreed. Really fabulous looking.
     
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    Yep, looks blue(ish) - but due to the faded colors (note the yellow skin of the lady) it could also be a very dark green-blue.

    However, the car was not delivered in its current silver!

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    The car was designed at Bertone but who was the actual designer?

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    why/when were the side markers and headlights changed? accident?
     
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  11. wbaeumer

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    Either updated due to Spanish regulations or it came when the car got its silver paint. In this case its a restoration-mistake.

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    Giugiaro.
     
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    He must have been in his early twenties when he did the design. His greatness as a designer is already apparent in many of the elements of the car. I'm not a fan of the grill and front end but the side view is a different story. What a great line the car has!

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    Giugiaro was 23 years old when he did the design of the Bertone 5000 GT in -61, and he started working for Nuccio Bertone in Dec. -59.

    His other work in the same period was Gordon-Keeble, that he designed in -60. This was his second design that went into production (after Alfa Romeo 2000/2600 Sprint). In -61 he also designed an Aston Martin DB4, but like the 5000 GT only one was build. You see several design elements that are similar between the 3 cars.

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    No, I read somewhere that the Bertone remained unsold after a few car shows and that the Spanish client who eventually bought the car demanded these changes before he took delivery of it.. So I believe they were factory made but at a later date..

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    In 1965
     
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    Wasn't the Mexico a Vignale design?
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    Yes but it shows the influence Giugiaro's Rivolta design had. Maserati was worried that the Rivolta would take the market.
     
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    I thought the Bertone 5000 GT was designed in -61, and the Rivolta in -62? Guigiaro did the BMW 3200 CS in -61 also, but I don't know if it was before or after the 5000 GT.

    In -63 he did the Iso Grifo and the Alfa Romeo Giulia GT, and -64 the Bizzarrini GT Strada, all beautiful designs. I think Giugiaro's influence shows in several of the other Italian design houses.

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    I should have been more specific, the designs influence on the Mexico. They all look similar, one more you can add to the list, the the Alfa GTV
     
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    How about this Moretti?
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