Yep - you are right! Good catch! What puzzled me was the strange radiator grill. Look at the pic I posted of the car when it was restored back to its original gray color. Here the nose section is correct (- and incorrect as it had a front crash in 1959. The repair was changed then -together with a re-numbering- to the late version of this type. Originally this car was #2118!). Ciao! Walter
Walter, I found again the site with the photo in post #37... Virginia International Raceway, April 1959. Go here: http://www.virhistory.com/vir/69-apr/rg-6904.htm
yesss...its #2107, the Paris Show car! A pitty that the current owner -who is a very nice person!- did not restore the car back to its original color and specification. The car also had racing history in France! Ciao! Walter
GIOTTO, many thanks. The photo is a good catch. My next book-project -after the now overdue 300S-book that comes out definitely this year!- I would like to do a book about the A6G-2000 Zagatos. So, if anybody has old (!!) photos of this car nailed on the bathroom mirror - please let me know! Ciao! Walter
Yes, thats #2105. The car was delivered to its 1st US-owner in Italy and registered on EE-number (for export). It showed up many years later in the US. Unfortunately we know nothing more about its history in this period. So, if anybody finds something.....! GIOTTO?? Thanks for the photo. Can you send it to me offline in high resolution? Ciao! Walter
Thats #2106 - the car that is today in dark-blue color with the non correct restored front nose section. Its a shame! The car looked so good in grey. Ciao! Walter
some more, the first at Paris 1955, the second at the factory 1956. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
yep - good photos from the Maserati website. From the Paris show in 1955 only the VIN of the 150S on the right still puzzles me. Ciao! Walter
Walter what is the second car in from the right in Boudwin's post in the second picture. What is one worth today, that car looks good!!? Erik
Erik, this an A6G-2000 FRUA-Spyder (long body). It has the same engine/chassis as the Zagatos (or the other cars from that serie). Only few were made. The value today is 950k-1.1/1.2 Million Euros. Ciao! Walter
Yep - later the car came to Germany and underwent a perfect restoration in Switzerland. Unfortunately the car had the engine from an Allemano installed. I brokered this car in summer `07 to Argentina and found the original engine which was taken into the car recently. Mission accomplished....! Ciao! Walter
Here is I think 2160 that was at Cavilino several years ago. I talked to the owner who wa a great guy. After this race photo was taken I went to talk to the owner after the race. I looked at the drivers side front wheel and the wire wheel was disintergrating with many broken spokes. I pointed it out to the owner who thanked me for pointing it out. That ws the end of that cars race day. A couple of more corners and that wheel would have come right off. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
A couple more pictures from the Maserati official website. hmm.. 2122 (#65) and 2113? Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Yep - no.65 is #2122. The other photo is a difficult one and puzzles me constantly. Its most likely #2113 but I am not 100% sure! It could also be that this car had competition history. This photo comes from a series that was taken as a press-photoshoot. Interesting is, that this strange looking "cubistic" Trident on the front-grille originally came from #2101, the one-off Zagato Spyder from where it was removed upon the Geneva Show 1955. Ciao! Walter
