Quattroporte II, not III. What is one worth?

I think there were only a few made and some were not really completed. There is one for sale in the UK by the guy that bought my QP !. He was asking 125,000 pounds - it had been gone through with care and was drivable. With only a few prototypes made surely it must have a value but the market is small and every part irreplaceable. Not sure how the big car runs on what I think is the SM motor.

Here are the details of the Maserati Quattroporte II with lots of pictures on the link (no connection to seller):

Maseratis For Sale
Chassis AM123*004*
3.0 V6 @ 90° (2,965cc)
Four overhead camshafts, 2 valves for cylinder.
3 Weber 44 DCNF carburettors
210 BHP @ 6,000 RPM
Weight 1,600 kg
Top speed 200 KPH
Front wheel drive

This unique prototype, believed to be the only car actually completed for the road has been sympathetically refurbished over several years by its previous enthusiastic owner, with bodywork by Prestige and mechanical work by Maserati specialist Bill McGrath Limited.

Other features on this fabulous prototype include:

Jaeger LCD dashboard
Polished wood rimmed steering wheel
Cream paintwork
Saddle brown leather upholstery
5 speed standard gate gearbox
Citroen SM type steering and hydraulic suspension
4 electric windows with blinds
Special alloy wheels (DeTomaso Longchamp style)
Triple wipers, air conditioning
Leather and carpet lined boot
Quality quilted under bonnet insulation
Blaupunkt blue spot radio cassette with electric aerial
High polished wooden dash and door accents
Beautiful original perforated headlining.

This is a beautiful car, styled by Bertone, which has had tens of thousands of pounds spent on it recently. All work has been carried out sympathetically and meticulously, so as not to spoils its highly original look and feel.

The car is well known to the UK Maserati Owners Club and to specialists Bill McGrath Limited of Kimpton, Hertfordshire, England.

It has also been exhibited at Goodwood Festival of Speed Concours. It comes with a thick file of history and documentation along with some very rare factory literature / brochures etc, and it is genuinely a delight to drive, once acclimatised to the quick handling.

This unique car deserves to be cherished by its next enthusiastic owner or placed in the special care of a quality collection or museum.

This is a very important piece of motoring history which cannot be repeated.

Also see Classic and Sports Car magazine, October 2011, page 215 (Case histories), write up.

A rare opportunity at £124,999

If you're seriously interested you can contact Andy direct at [email protected]

 

Hard to say what its worth. For me, it definitely isn't worth the price of a good Ghibli (with a V8 engine)...

It is ugly, it is not like the elegant QP1 and it not sporty like a Ghibli. The interior is unimportant, the dashboards (there are several types !!!) are ugly and look like they came out of an early Biturbo. The engine is from a Merak, a simple V6 and quite under-powered for such a big car (unlike the Ghibli with a V8). The citroen stuff are of course an abomination in my eyes (but others will disagree).

I personally wouldn't spend more than 20,000 on a QP2.

Remember, being rare doesn't mean anything if the car is so ugly.

 

This car was owned by a good friend of mine in Germany. We drove in it to the Goodwood Festival of Speed in 1999. The car is far too heavy for its little Merak-engine. But en route everybody stopped at fuel stations asking what it is.....

 

Any idea what it sold for back then? I know quite a bit of work was done on it after purchase in the UK.