Hi Doug, I found important paperwork about your car. Please contact me via PM or directly: [email protected] Ciao! Walter
Sorry you drove 1 A6GCS Pininfarina Coupe today ... which is still bloody awesome, but lets not start calling replicas (no matter how well made) real cars please. Pete
From that view - yes, you are right! However - it was great to drive both! Loved it! This replica is for sure the closest to the real thing incl. the corrected mistakes all former replicas from Italy and Argentina had! Ciao! Walter
I found this advert in R&T 3/1962, p. 92. Is this the missing link that the mysterious A6G cabriolet ended up in the USA, at that time with a Chevy V8 fitted? Seems that Bill Noon`s theory is corect he posted on the thread. Ciao! Walter Image Unavailable, Please Login
Walter, Nice find. I wish it did refer to #057, the only A6 1500 convertible (in which Bill was interested), but the delivery date for #057 was October 1948. Especially given the ad's reference to 1952, it seems more likely that it describes one of the more numerous Frua-bodied 2 liter A6G convertibles. Best regards, Don
Don, ...and this is the interesting aspect in this old ad - there was NO 4-seater Frua-cabriolet in the early `50s! None of the Maserati cabriolets in that period came with 4-seater specs!! Those 4-seaters from Frua came later in `56/`57!! I think this ad refers in fact to an A6G-1500 although the production year was not correctly stated. In my humble opinion the car was possibly sold to an Italian who later (`52??) settled in the USA and took the car with him or sold it to this R. J. Lavezzi who finally offered it for sale in R&T. Heaven knows. But it could be a link to the lost 1500-convertible. Ciao! Walter
Walter, Very good point - the accuracy of "4-place" is likely greater than "'52", and #057 was definitely one of the three long-wheelbase A6 1500s. I suspect that the number of cars brought to the US by returning military was far greater than those brought by Italian immigrants. The soldiers had the purchasing power, and their inclination to subsequently drop in an American powertrain would also have been greater. Bill's remarks are in post #260 above. Close examination of the parts he mentions has yet to reveal any Pinin Farina body numbers, however, so this mystery will probably endure. Don
My old A6G Frua Spyder #2030 affectionately know as "The Little Guy" had what some would call back seats. Check the photos. This add is most likely referring to #2030 as it was kicking around Calif around that time and it did at one point have a chev engine and the incorrect rear end. Just my 2 Lira. Ciao, FGM
Frank, s**t - you are right (s. photo). Reg. the A6G-1500 cabriolet: "And the beat goes on!" Ciao! Walter Image Unavailable, Please Login
Don, not sure if the convertible was made on a long-wheelbase-chassis. Ciao! Walter Image Unavailable, Please Login
Hi Walter, I am. You can see the extra length in the doors and distance between the door and rear wheelwell. Factory records as transcribed by Hofer indicate three long wheelbase cars: #057, a convertible; #059, a coupe, now in Japan; and #075, another convertible (my post 808 incorrectly stated that there was just one, although there is speculation that #057 might have been renumbered as #075 with the addition of a new motor). The extra length is quite apparent with #059. Best regards, Don
Don, OK, seems that I was not precise enough - I meant that the car on this photo was not made on a longer wheelbase. The car seemes very short to me. Also it clearly shows, that it was a 2-seater and not -as I suggested!- a 4-seater. Perhaps they made 2 cars...? Ciao! Walter
Walter, Look again at my post #274 and I think you will change your mind. Especially look at the proportions of the interior panel of the door and the position of the pull handle. The door on the convertible is at least 15 cm longer than the more typical SWB coupe. This can also be seen in the attached photo of #059. Don Image Unavailable, Please Login
Sorry for my intrusion, but different lenses on the camera made different photos. I hope i was helpful. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Yep, correct! The photo I posted was taken by a tele-lens while your image comes from a 50mm-lens and clearly sho the long wheelbase. Thanks for posting! Ciao! Walter
.....Maserati commissioned a superb 3 seats coupè to Pininfarina for the Geneva motor show. This car has a very low chassis, a stream-line shape, the upper and the rear window in "plexiglas". Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
It was clearly not the prettiest car and so PF made it much better with their design development on the rear end of the later cars. But I much like the pop-up-lights and the sun-roof. Both are very rare -if not unique- features in 1947. Ciao! Walter
This picture shows the Italian president from 1955 untill 1962, Giovanni Gronchi, in a Maserati A6 Frua Spider on May 11 1955 during the reopening festivities of the Autodromo di Monza. Chassis number anyone? Regards Wolfi Image Unavailable, Please Login
