A few years ago I went to look at a Merak which was up for about 13K it needed a bit of work and was being sold by a garage for a client. They had been "maintaining" the car or at least that is what they tried to tell me. Initially they could not get it running and I had to sort a few things before it would have run.
Long story short - They knew nothing about the car, they told me it was a sister car to the Lamborghini Espada! I made them an offer of 7K to which they were horrified, I walked they finally sold it for 4k!
Still regret not getting it but at the time the garage was completely out of touch, they have gone up quite a bit since but are still one of the more affordable classic Maserati's.
Ideally a nice Bora or Khamsin would suit me but I guess that's unlikely now.