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Amazosan Part of things The Stylin', profilin', limousine riding, jet flying, kiss-stealing, wheelin' dealin' son of a gun! Posts: 188	Maserati 150 GT - Bella E Sfortunata Amazosan @kamakura
	Nov 27, 2013 10:07:03 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	An amalglamation of Maserati A6GCS/53 and 300S parts, with a Fantuzzi-styled body to top it off. 'Bitsas' have never looked so good. From here, via here. - Amazosan In The Maserati workshops in the 50's, with a 300S:
	Last Edit: Nov 27, 2013 10:14:15 GMT by Amazosan And on Facebook: The Amazo Effect

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pavel Part of things Posts: 211	Maserati 150 GT - Bella E Sfortunata pavel @pavel
	Nov 27, 2013 10:24:13 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Wow. some of the detailing on that is absolutely superb! What's the light-pull cord on the centre tunnel for?


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goldnrust West Midlands Minimalist Posts: 1,872	Maserati 150 GT - Bella E Sfortunata goldnrust @goldnrust
	Nov 27, 2013 10:35:25 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	How does a v8 with side pipes manage to look so tasteful
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fuel Part of things Turbo-Jet Posts: 352	Maserati 150 GT - Bella E Sfortunata fuel @fuel
	Nov 27, 2013 11:45:34 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Nov 27, 2013 10:35:25 GMT goldnrust said: How does a v8 with side pipes manage to look so tasteful Am I missing something? To me it clearly looks like a 4-cylinder..
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loneliestguy Part of things Posts: 48	Maserati 150 GT - Bella E Sfortunata loneliestguy @loneliestguy
	Nov 27, 2013 12:20:11 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Eight Plug Leads:)


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goldnrust West Midlands Minimalist Posts: 1,872	Maserati 150 GT - Bella E Sfortunata goldnrust @goldnrust
	Nov 27, 2013 12:38:38 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Nov 27, 2013 11:45:34 GMT fuel said: Nov 27, 2013 10:35:25 GMT goldnrust said: How does a v8 with side pipes manage to look so tasteful Am I missing something? To me it clearly looks like a 4-cylinder.. Doh! Picture scanning fail on my part. My point about the side pipe still stands!
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VIP South East Posts: 8,293	Maserati 150 GT - Bella E Sfortunata VIP @vip
	Nov 27, 2013 12:44:02 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Nov 27, 2013 12:20:11 GMT loneliestguy said: Eight Plug Leads:) It's still quite clearly an in-line four cylinder though.


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fuel Part of things Turbo-Jet Posts: 352	Maserati 150 GT - Bella E Sfortunata fuel @fuel
	Nov 27, 2013 13:23:28 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Nov 27, 2013 12:20:11 GMT loneliestguy said: Eight Plug Leads:) And V8's have their spark plugs arranged in a line like that? V8's have intake on one bank and exhaust on the other? Not familiar with twin-spark engines ie Alfa Romeo and Nissan CA?
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joem83 Posted hell of a lot Posts: 7,039	Maserati 150 GT - Bella E Sfortunata joem83 @joem83
	Nov 27, 2013 13:26:13 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Thats nice! Is that not a just a twin-spark engine? Seems quite fitting to have a revvy 4 pot over a heavy v8 in something like that.
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thebaron Europe Over the river, heading out of town Posts: 1,645	Maserati 150 GT - Bella E Sfortunata thebaron @thebaron
	Jan 27, 2014 21:07:13 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Il motore, il 4 cilindri bialbero di 1.500 cc
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gary1998 Part of things Posts: 254	Maserati 150 GT - Bella E Sfortunata gary1998 @gary1998
	Jan 27, 2014 21:56:31 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	that is just lovely


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HammerDown Part of things Posts: 425	Maserati 150 GT - Bella E Sfortunata HammerDown @hammerdown
	Jan 28, 2014 4:53:27 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Nov 27, 2013 12:38:38 GMT goldnrust said: Doh! Picture scanning fail on my part. My point about the side pipe still stands! LOL totally.....When one thinks road cars with "Maserati" on the valve covers your mind wants it to be a V8 (or at least a straight6)....not a four, especially when it has flowing lines alluding to it being fast. Until everyone screamed at you I too just assumed it had a big fat Maser motor in there. Sweet car though..this is the history according to Hemmings when they sold it: Exactly what to call this Fantuzzi-bodied Maserati is a rather difficult task, which is probably why its complete provenance hasn’t been known for most of its 58 years. Only over the last few years did its owner piece together the story of how a factory works racing Maserati became a prototype and then coachbuilt one-off road car, and now the Maserati known as the 150 GT Spider will cross the block at Gooding’s sale in Scottsdale. According to David Brynan, a specialist with Gooding and Company, the 150 GT Spider started out as an A6GCS/53, one of 52 such cars fitted with a double overhead-camshaft 170hp 2.0-liter straight-six engine that Maserati built from 1953 to 1955, and one of a handful that Maserati’s own works team raced during 1954. (Gooding has yet to release the Spider’s chassis number or complete racing history as an A6GCS/53 and in its description of the car notes the chassis number as simply 03). Thoroughly abused by the end of the 1954 racing season, Maserati’s racing department stripped the A6GCS/53 to its chassis and rebuilt it as a prototype of the 300S, fitted with Maserati’s 3.0-liter straight-six and finished in 1955. As Walter Bäumer wrote in his book on the Maserati 300S, “perhaps the initial concept (for the 300S) was to install the bigger engine in a modified but basically standard A6GCS chassis, but it quickly became obvious that this combination would not be competitive against the cars of archrival Ferrari. A new chassis design was required for Maserati to make best use of the bigger engine.” Thus Maserati pushed the car to the side as it continued to develop and eventually build the production 300S. At about the same time, however, it was developing the 150S, a smaller four-cylinder car designed for customers to enter in 1.5-liter classes, so with an eye to create a road-going version of the 150S, Maserati’s racing department once again stripped the A6GCS cum 300S prototype to its chassis. This time, they installed a 150S engine, backed by a gearbox from an A6G/2000, and slowed by 250F Grand Prix brakes. They then turned to Medardo Fantuzzi, who was responsible for the designs of both the A6GCS/53 and the 300S, to whip up a convertible body suitable for a street-driven, rather than track-driven, car. The 150 GT Spider looked impressive, but Maserati declined to produce it, citing its prohibitive cost. Writing on FerrariChat, Bäumer pointed out that Hans Tanner tested the car and found it lacking in terms of handling and quality, he believes that Tanner’s report came from the newly finished car having been unsorted. Brynan noted, however, that the car’s failure to reach development in part led Maserati to begin development of the 3500 GT, the company’s first real street car. Over the next three years, the 150 GT Spider hung around the Maserati shop, never seeing the light of day. In 1960, the company then sold it to one of its distributors in the U.K., where it remained until sometime in the 1980s, when it was sold to a German collector. The current European owner, who bought it painted red with a black interior around 2007, began to research its history when he found that the documentation he got with it didn’t make any sense. That led him to discover the above history, confirmed by Adolpho Orsi and Bäumer, and to restore it back to its original cream with brown interior. According to Brynan, the 150 GT Spider, which Gooding estimates will sell for between $3 million and $4 million, has never been publicly shown since its restoration. The Maserati sold for $3.08 million


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bavarianretro Scotland Posts: 866	Maserati 150 GT - Bella E Sfortunata bavarianretro @bavarianretro
	Jan 29, 2014 8:55:08 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Bit of BMW 507 in there too?
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