Tony RobinsonPhoto: Ian Wagstaff At the end of last year I lost a true friend, Ken Gregory. Ken was one...
Maserati has opened a dedicated exhibit, Maserati 100: A Century of Pure Italian Luxury Sports Cars, at the Enzo Ferrari...
The Goodwood Revival 2014 will celebrate 60 years of one of Formula 1’s most iconic machines, the Maserati 250F, with one of the largest ever on-track collections of the legend at the September 12-14 historic car races. As many as 16 examples of the 250F will take part in the...
Photo: Ron Kellogg Collection After World War I, Alfieri Maserati (one of six Maserati brothers) took a position as a...
Later model 3500GTs, with the larger 4-liter engine and 5-speed ZF transmission, are the most desirable. About 30 miles north...
Photo: Sean Smith It can be interesting to trace the genesis of a machine, taking note of the influences that led to its creation. In the case of the 450S Maserati, it was catalyzed by an enthusiastic Southern California building contractor/entrepreneur by the name of Tony Parravano. With unprecedented horspower...
Tazio Nuvolari chats with Eugenio Siena (left) and Baconin Borzacchini (right) during practice for the 1934 Grand Prix of Italy....
Photo: Mike Jiggle It is almost safe to say that a Maserati saved the Grand Prix career of a promising...
With this entire issue—both Racecar and Roadcar—we join the rest of the motoring world in celebrating the 100th anniversary of legendary Italian manufacturer Maserati. While you will read throughout these pages about a wide array of significant road and racecars that bore the Trident insignia, and a great number of...
Described as “a little beauty”, this grey, 1947 Maserati coupé represents Italian style at its most sophisticated at the Geneva...
Photo: John Zimmermann My first intro-duction to the Birdcage Maserati was at Riverside, California, in 1959. The car had been...
A manufacturer’s ultimate aim in motor racing is to hope success on the track will lead to greater sales off track. However, if one looks at Grand Prix racing today, it’s not that obvious—although Mercedes is ruling at the moment, which can’t be too bad for their business. In the...
Mark Knopfler driving his Maserati 300S in the Maserati Centenary Trophy race at Donington. Photo: Pete Austin As a boy,...
Mike Lawrence In 1957 Maserati was supreme. Fangio won the F1 Championship and the Maserati 450S came within an ace...
Photo: Hardy Mutschler The 2014 edition of the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este competition, May 23-24, could not have gone better for Maserati, especially in this year of celebrations marking the centenary of the company’s foundation. Indeed, Maseratis earned some of the highest awards from the judges and public alike, collecting...
Captured by the innate beauty of Maserati’s 450S model, artist Matthew Stevens created this graphic impression of the car. Prints...
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Then After back-to-back wins at the Indianapolis 500 in 1953 and 1954, Bill Vukovich returned for the ’55 race with only one goal…to win three in a row. His mount was Lindsey Hopkins’ 1954 Offy-powered Kurtis 500C (Kurtis Chassis #372; the Hopkins Special; car #4) which had finished 21st at...
Headrest Mount In this age where we not only want to have more and more life experiences, but want to...
As you will no doubt have noticed in this issue devoted to Maserati on the occasion of the marque’s centennial,...
The 100th Anniversary of Maserati was honored at the 2014 Silverstone Classic, held 25-27 July at the Silverstone Circuit in England. As the Silverstone Classic’s official Celebration Marque, Maserati celebrated its centenary in style with hundreds of cars taking part at the Northamptonshire circuit. Racing legend Stirling Moss OBE led...
American race driver Derek Hill, son of World Champion Phil Hill, will strap himself behind the wheel of the lone...
An exhibition dedicated to the Centennial of Maserati will be held at the Enzo Ferrari Museum in Modena, Italy through...
Reminiscent of its renowned win at the same track, the Maserati 8CTF “Boyle Special” (serial number 3032) relived its final victory lap around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway exactly 75 years later. On the brink of Maserati’s 100th anniversary, the 8CTF was honoured at the Indy 500 in commemoration of its...
During the J. C. C. 200 Mile Race at England’s Brooklands on April 27, 1938, Prince Bira is shown riding...
The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance has announced that the Maserati and Ruxton marques will be among those featured at this...
Then. In a tiny village of 100 houses in the province of Luxembourg, Belgium, lives a man grinning from ear to ear. After 15 years of dreaming about a little car, the searching and hunting and yearning is over. In 1998, Iwan D. spotted a photograph of a special-bodied Panhard...
In early 1956, Tony Parravano, a wealthy American housing developer, commissioned Maserati to build a new large-bore V-8 for use...
William F. Milliken Jackie StewartPhoto: Thierry Lesparre 3 Carroll Shelby drives a Birdcage Maserati to victory in the Los Angeles...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports; the World Sports Car Championship from 1953-1961, the Speedworld Challenge from 1962-1963, the International Championship of Makes from 1964-1971 and the World Championship of Makes from 1972-1981. There was even a...
