#Maserati A6G

[diabolus1exmachina]

Maserati A6G (Zagato bodied). 

This mechanical beauty is chassis #2108, which originally started life wearing a prototype Allemano coach built body and was completed on the 9th of September 1955 at the Maserati factory. However, if you look back in the history books, you’ll see that isn’t the body it wears today. After stunning crowds at the 1955 Paris Motor Show and 1956 New York Motor Show, chassis #2108 was purchased from Maserati Showroom in New York city in 1956. However, it wasn't long before misfortune reared its ugly head for this gorgeous Maserati. During transport to its first owner, a fire broke out from under the dashboard, destroying the unique original coachwork while only the chassis, engine and gearbox remained. A few decades passed with the car’s remains changing hands occasionally, until eventually chassis #2108 was purchased in 1995 by a collector from Bethlehem, Connecticut, called Keith Duly.t would be fair to say this car wouldn’t exist today without Mr. Duly’s intervention, who purchased the damaged but mostly complete body of another Maserati, chassis #2102, this time with coachwork by Zagato. Notably, this was the body used on the Mille Miglia test car driven by Stirling Moss and Denis Jenkinson with the number 318 that it wears today. Around the turn of the millennium, Mr. Duly then commissioned Quality Cars of Padua to marry the matching-numbers running gear of chassis #2108 with the Zagato bodywork of #2102, giving the car the attractive nose of the Berlina Coupé 2000/D. Finally, work was completed in 2015, and we have to say the results are simply spectacular. Since its restoration, this Maserati has been enjoying life back on the road, participating in the Mille Miglia in both 2017 and 2020. Now in spectacular condition and ready to be driven, this Maserati A6G would make for one hell of a present for the next Christmas. 

#Maserati A6G #Paris Motor Show #Mille Miglia #Stirling Moss #Denis Jenkinson #Berlina Coupé 2000/D

[jh0721]

1956 Maserati A6G/54 Berlinetta

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[nicholask-la]

From August, 2023

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[italiancarssince1946]

1954 Zagato Maserati A6G

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#1954 #zagato #maserati a6g

[blueiskewl]

1955 Maserati A6G/54 2000 Spyder

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[vintageclassiccars]

1956 Maserati A6G/2000 Berlinetta Zagato.

[frenchcurious]

Maserati A6G 54 Berlinetta Zagato Coupe 1956. - source Cars & Motorbikes Stars of the Golden era.

#maserati #zagato

[cosmonautroger]

Maserati A6G-2000 Berlinetta Zagato

[les-belles-mecaniques]

Prototype de l'usine Maserati,

1946 Maserati A6G 1500 Coupé

#Maserati

[mensfactory]

1955 Maserati A6G/54 2000 Spyder by Zagato,

Photo via RM Sotheby's

#art #design #sportcars #sportcar #vintagecars #vintagecar #luxury lifestyle #luxury car #luxury cars #maserati #spyder #zagato #rm sotheby's #1955 #collector #dolce vita

[diabolus1exmachina]

Maserati  A6G/54 Spider by Frua (1 of 10). 

From 1954 Maserati offered the final edition of the A6G sports car. As with its predecessor, the sales designation 2000 GT was frequently used in brochures and advertisements. On the race tracks of the World Sports Car Championship, the corresponding offshoots were called A6GCS. By 1957, only 60 Maserati A6G/54 cars had been built, with the bodies being exclusively built by external coachbuilders such as Allemano, Zagato and Frua. 

So the A6G/54 presented at the Paris Motor Show in October 1954 had to meet high expectations. On the one hand, its driving performance was to clearly exceed that of its direct predecessor. On the other hand, Maserati naturally also wanted to increase its production figures again. And last but not least, there was direct competition with Ferrari, an up-and-coming company that had been enticing customers by building sports cars in the immediate vicinity since 1947. Accordingly, the engineers under Gioacchino Colombo began to thorougly rework the two-liter inline six-cylinder engine. Compared to the A6G, the ratio of bore to stroke was changed, turning a long stroke engine into a short stroke engine with two overhead camshafts. Compared to the A6GCS, Maserati used a chain instead of sprockets to drive the camshafts in the A6G/54 to improve reliability in everyday use. These measures increased the revs and thus the power output, which in this case was around 50 percent higher than that of the predecessor. Expressed in figures, 110 kW/150 hp was initially available, later even 118 kW/160 hp thanks to dual ignition.

As already mentioned at the beginning, Maserati at that time only produced the engines, transmissions and the tubular frame made of steel tubes including suspensions for the A6G/54. Then they sent the components to the coachbuilder selected by the individual customer. The official brochures offered a choice of four bodies. Tipo A and Tipo B came from Frua, Tipo C from Allemano and Tipo D from Zagato. Pinin Farina had previously fitted various A6 and A6G chassis, but then fell out of favour with Maserati when they entered into close cooperation with Ferrari. Only for the A6GCS, a few bodies were still being built there at the request of Maserati dealer Mimmo Dei.

This dealer was also the one who started the ball rolling for the A6G/54 Frua Spider. After a Spider based on a A6GCS chassis with the engine of the A6G/54 was completed in Pietro Frua’s workshop in the spring of 1955, Mimmo Dei ordered a small series of ten vehicles. However, only the first one was given the same design as the original model. The other nine were given an extended front and other modifications in detail. Different bumpers and small fake air intakes on the rear fenders for example.

#Maserati A6G/54 Spider #Allemano #Zagato #Frua #Gioacchino Colombo #Ferrari

[jh0721]

1955 Maserati A6G/2000 Zagato

#maserati cars #zagato

[nicholask-la]

From August, 2022

#car #maserati #Maserati a6g #frua #monterey car week #leica q2 #original photography on tumblr #august 2022

[italiancarssince1946]

1956 Maserati A6G 2000 Allemano

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#1956 #maserati #a6g 2000

[rrondo]

1956 Maserati A6G Zagato belonging to @jonathan.segal

#maserati #zagato

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