If I had the time, I would buy this in a heart beat!

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Love it - think I saw it up at Autoshield a few weeks back. Shades of Lancia Gamma and Fiat X1/9 in there.

Very 70's.
 
Ewan

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There has been a RHD auto in red for sale here in the UK for about the last three years, and I assume its this same car that keeps cropping up. I like them, but not so much when in red. But now that I'm down to only three Masers' (having sold the Cup earlier today), and given that this car needs a re-spray anyway...
 
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Ewan, I reckon a 10k budget on top of purchase price, 15 in worse case. Justin Banks knows this and that's where his price is. Maybe a cheeky 16k bid will get it. They don't grow on trees and my close friend in Germany, owner is 5 classic Masers (Indy, 3500, Khamsin, Mistral and 4,2 Kyalami) reckons that these are awesome.

He'll be in Modena in it as he trusts it most for their trip.

Seriously, I don't think it's too much gamble. I'd have it if I wasn't landscaping our 2 acres plot right now ( where does the money go!).
 
Ewan

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This car may need £10k of re-spray and servicing. But it may need £20k, £30k, £40k or more. A proper nut and bolt restoration to concourse would be nearer to £100k. I suspect it needs a lot of work to bring it to the standard I would require. To me, patina is just a polite term for scruffy. And I don't do scruffy.
 
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Always been a fan of the Kylami but no space at the moment (although we have plans to fix this).

I always think Justin Banks prices his cars realistically, he seems happy to sell on these restoration projects as he finds them rather than tart them up a bit and add £15k. Proabably not a lot of profit in this but it looks like it could be a good entry point into a classic Maserati
 
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Can't figure the price discrepency for essentially the same car. One badged De Tomasso with an American V8, the other, slight restyle, Maserati badge, with an in house V8.
 
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I agree with mark here, this ticks all the boxes for a car from that era but even being so rare and with such low mileage I could never justify that amount of money on what would need to be a garage queen
 
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Why buy that when you could buy the Kyalami? There are a couple of 4.2 LHD Kyalami's around for sale in Europe right now for in the region of £35-40K. The RHD 4.9 looks like a bargain. I agree with Ewan that you'd never want to do a nut and bolt concours resto on it but for under 30K you could have a really good, usable, ultra rare classic.

I'd change the colour though. These look good in period bronzes etc. Or all our favourite dark blues.
 
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