Grant V
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I think I might have mentioned previously that my father bought a Maserati 300S in the early 70s that he found in Angola.
I was recently given a number of boxes of old slides by my aging mother, some family related and some motor racing related. I was randomly going through a box of slides when I noticed that a few lines of the inlay card were marked ‘300S’.
My father passed away in 2010 and over time I wondered why, as a keen amateur photographer, had never taken photos of the car as he found it – they would have been invaluable and added to the historic fabric of this car.
When I saw the ‘300S’ listing on the slide inlay card, I was hoping for some different pictures of the car other than those I had grown up with. I never expected to find the holy grail - pictures of the car as found by my father when he went to collect it. It’s clear that even he had forgotten about them otherwise he would certainly have passed them onto Walter Bäumer, who wrote a comprehensive and detailed book on the Tipo 300S. The quality of the pictures is a bit kak – they have been photographed directly from the slides
I was recently given a number of boxes of old slides by my aging mother, some family related and some motor racing related. I was randomly going through a box of slides when I noticed that a few lines of the inlay card were marked ‘300S’.
My father passed away in 2010 and over time I wondered why, as a keen amateur photographer, had never taken photos of the car as he found it – they would have been invaluable and added to the historic fabric of this car.
When I saw the ‘300S’ listing on the slide inlay card, I was hoping for some different pictures of the car other than those I had grown up with. I never expected to find the holy grail - pictures of the car as found by my father when he went to collect it. It’s clear that even he had forgotten about them otherwise he would certainly have passed them onto Walter Bäumer, who wrote a comprehensive and detailed book on the Tipo 300S. The quality of the pictures is a bit kak – they have been photographed directly from the slides
