A6G Coupe at Pebble Beach

http://www.pietro-frua.de/1954_maserati.htm#2114

 

Indeed a beautiful car and it will be a shame if it leaves the U.K after such a long time, during which it has been regularly shown in public.
The same auction also has a Tipo 61 I believe - not sure which car it is however.
As an aside this Pietro Frua website is a phenomenal resource.

 

Nice story about this car by the late Bill McGrath: http://classicmaseratis.co.uk/billmcgrath/22/maserati-a6g-frua-coupe/

 

Great article, thanks for posting. I presume that work was done for AG back in the day. Credit to him and McGraths for a job beautifully done.

 

Tipo 60/ 61 is #$2454

Details here

http://www.pirro.com/english/all.maserati/Detail/2454.Tipo.61.htm

 

Just sold for $1,500,000 plus buyers premium and import duty of 2.5%.

 

Has anybody the auction result for this car?

 

The A6G Frua was -IMO- far too cheap!

 

Sounds like quite a lot of money to me What have such Frua coupés achieved recently?

 

I think this coupè was the first auctioned, there are only 2 in existance (and built).

 

I expected around $1.8m plus commission.

 

Yes, and this rare birds have been dropped into the Ferrari hysterical hype......

 

Walter, the other Maserati (Birdcage) will be auctioned today, along with another, very nice, 3500 GT. They can be viewed live on the Gooding's website at about 6pm PDT.

 

The 3500GT has a realistic estimate.

The Birdcage result will be very interesting!

 

The Frua has a non matching number engine.
FGM

 

I was curious to see the numbering here. I think it was 2114/2 for the engine which is obviously unusual. Does anybody know the story?

 

Did anybody take a photo of the engine-no.? Frank?

 

The Gooding catalogue says the following about the mechanical restoration:
"As the engine block - presumed to be an original factory replacement unit - did not display a serial number, the owner requested that it be stamped 2114/2".
So I think Frank is correct, the car had an unnumbered or non matching number engine that was numbered in 2001/2 as 2114/2.

 

I did not take a photo of the engine. Also, I believe the interior was done in the UK which reflected that certain British style which is different than an Italian trim job.

+ 1 re Ivans comments, Which means I will be painting 916 Black with new red leather done in Modena and new wire wheels from Borrani Italy. Bling Bling Bling.
Ciao,
FGM

 

Frank: Don't forget to use plenty of the shiny stuff on the tires

Ivan

 

I always figured a 10% to 12% discount for non matching numbers, but model correct engine.
15% to 20% for a reproduction engine?
I would be interested in knowing what the combined experts of our group think?
FGM

 

We can argue about that with a negative but also positive aspect.

Important is, that the engine is original.

I know of one A6G 2000 that came with two matching-no.`s engines! Same with the 300S #3073 (one of those motors is in the car, the other -correctly stamped- in Italy).

Another A6G 2000 in the USA has an original but non-numbered motor.

If the engine in #2114 is original then -and in my opinion- it was a mistake to stamp the block with "/2".