Welcome Lucas. We'd love to see pictures of the car. Where are you located? Joe Ghibli SS #2110 Khamsin #1226 Mistral #1216 Bora #1046 Islero #6243 Mondial Cab #49713 Lele Marlboro #184 Laforza #159
http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showpost.php?p=137646105&postcount=105 Lots of pictures of Lucas' car in this thread. Hope you don't mind me posting the link. Great looking Kyalami Lucas. Cheers http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=194494 Entire thread. LOTS of pictures
Ahhh...the blue one! I know this car and saw it in Assen last year and in the Schwetzingen Concours where it won its class! Nice Kyalami! (only very few people know who nice a Kyalami drives. It has a fantastic chassis and it takes every corner easily!). Ciao! Walter
@Walter: This is a different one than the one that won in Schwetzingen. The Schwetzingen one was # 164, this one is # 006. All well for the rest? I hope to see you in Le Mans?
Here are some pics which I stole from the ones that were on the ferrarichat meeting. And indeed it is a very nice ar to drive. great driving position, nice seats, good engine, quite fast. And not many people notice that it is a special car.. I like that. My daily driver is a Maser 224, same idea. They all think it is a Toyota with a broken exhaust pipe. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
@ Walter... welllll.. Identical...... LOL You better get new glasses *grin* This is my ex... the one you saw at Schwetzingen Image Unavailable, Please Login
For your sake I sure hope you're refering to the car. So you have a "thing" for Kyalamis then and blue to boot? Bob S.
Walter, since you seem to have a lot of documentary, can you find any documented history on #006? All I have is from hearsay...: the car has been a prototype, seems to have belonged to Alejandro de Tomaso, then belonged to the factory museum, then it seems to have been sold to a Dutch underworld drug-scene guy, was posessed by the dutch authorities, then auctioned and sold to the last owner and then to me... That is what I know.... Can you find something? Or do you know who to contact to find out more?
Lucas, unfortunately I stop to collect VIN`s and other docs etc. about Maserati cars with the Khamsin. Otherwise its too much. Only interest car from the modern range is the MC12 that caught my collectors-eye! Ciao! Walter
Lucas, What is the name of the color of your current Kyalami? The reason I´m asking is that my Longchamp has a similiar color, but I´m not quite sure if it´s the same. -Jani
"blue" . Seriously, I dont know. I just took a look under the bonnet. The VIN plate is there with VIN 129006, the other fields are left blank........... This is typical. Why bother to put it there? I think because this was a prototype, they dindnt think about doing that.
I was just wondering, as Kyalami was a De Tomaso era car, that they might have used a De Tomaso color. Looking at a color chart, it could be "Celeste chiaro metallic" http://www.panteracars.com/colorchips503.pdf In any case, it looks great on your car. Perhaps I should forget about changing the color of my car.. -Jani
When I spent the first half of 2006 in Modena indexing an archive I walked many times in front of the Canalgrande hotel, which was owned by Alessandro de Tomaso and is still owned by his widow Isabelle Haskell de Tomaso. A couple of times the private garage at the end of the block and deep inside you could see, covered in dust, a Longchamp and a Deauville: one bellhop who was there confirmed they were de Tomaso's personal cars...after a few months one of the cars was gone and I was told by another bellhop that it had been sold. There were no Masers in there though.
I have stayed in the Canalgrande, with the Maserati Club. I parked my car in the parking garage belonging to the hotel. I havent seen any DeTo's though. Btw. although the Longchamp and the Kyalami look alike, only the doors and the windows are exchangeable, so I have been told.....
I´m sure you are refering to the exterior of the cars only. It has been a great help to me to get some chassis parts via Maserati sources. Great avatar picture! Any chance for posting it up in a larger scale? -Jani
