This car is displayed at Verkehrshaus der Schweiz www.verkehrshaus.ch, in Lucerene. Source Olaf Boecking Januari 2008, Andea Montalenti for the VIN februari 2008.
Added april 2006.
Engine now in 101-1806
Show Meadowbrooks Concourse (winner of a class in 04 and 05). The original owner was signor Dominic Tinero, who when Tim contacted him several years ago (he was 80) lived on the Northern Italy cost. He was stunned that the car still existed, he remembered the car was very fast and couldn
Februari 2009. Maserati 3500GT nr: AM 101-1204. Left factory 11/12 1960, collor Grigio, internal marrone sold to Mr Brarda in Torino. The car was imported to Sweden by an Italian doctor approx. 1965. I bougt this car in a very poor condition 1970 from the Swedish Maserati Importer Auto Jahn in Motala. I took me five years to restore it, and I painted the car in Royal blue metallic. I still own this car, but have not driven with it for ower 10 years. It needs a new paint and some more works. Staffan Gunnarsson
Auction Les Grandes Marques
Added april 2006.
Offered for sale at eBay.it in september 2007.
Offered for sale at eBay.it in december 2009.
The car was on display at the Padua Classic car show 24-25 october 2009.
Currently under restoration (jan 2006).
November 2009 The car is currently under restoration
Seattle Italian Concors 2005 and winner in 2006 (unrestored 3500 GT).
Only two owners since new. ASI targa no 5531, gold plate. Was was sale in 2005.
Added october 2007.
The car was sold in Italy when new and went to the USA in 1977. It was repainted red then.
Gianluca Baldisserri brought it back to Italy in 2004 and the car and has undergone a complete restauration
which took the best part of 5 years.
The car has the Italian Historic Car Certification (ASI).
Alexander Peter owns the car sinds july 2006, it has been restored in 2001/2002 by specialists. It has been in Switzerland all of his life.
Picture from Larry Ruben
Offered for sale by Laurence Ruben in may 1985.
It came with a 6 cil. Ford engine and 3 speed auto but could also be bought with original engine.
It had a good body and interieur but needed paint.
In 1985 the car was sold the Anders Bolmström in Sweden who bought it with the original
engine and gearbox. It was kept in the garage until 2007 when his son Daniel took over the car
and is bringing it back to mint condtion.
Januari 2006. This car is in Switzerland in need of restoration.
Spring 2006. The car is offered for sale by Mirbach in Germany. Sold on ebay in may 2006.
April 2006. Spotted in Vienna, Austria.
Douglas Howell gave the following information. It was offered for sale in November 2002 by a salvage yard in Southern California USA (The phone number is listed as Beverly Hills, although the pictures certainly don't look like the home of the movie stars!) It was listed as a 1962, and as you can see was in extremely poor condition. It appears that both front and rear suspension were replaced with Ford parts (including chassis modifications on the front), and the rest of the car is just plain nasty.
Added novenber 2011
Februari 2009. Information from Staffan Gunnarsson This car was destroyed in a car accident in Italy. I dismanteled this car at an Italian scrap yard in Miland 1977 and brought as much as we could load in a Volvo estate car to Sweden. I still have the parts. The car was lying between two other cars, and the owner used the crane you see in the background to lift it with.
December 2006. Gerard Swaen wrote a small story about his car. Much of 101-1336 history remains a mystery. The earliest document in possession of the current owner is the official title of vehicle dated February 6 1989. The title states as official owner the Griffon Motor car company at Charlottesville, Virginia USA. Shortly after, the car was sold to Micheal Jones at Coleshill, West Midlands United kingdom and shipped to the UK. There it must have changed owner at least once. Serious restoration work was undertaken in the UK. The car was completely disassembled. The body was sandblasted. New floor panels were welded in and probably a cost estimate for the engine rebuild was requested and deemed too expensive. After engine rebuild quotes were received the owner at that time put the car was up for sale and advertised in Classic Car. No serious responses were received in the first three months and the current owner, Gerard Swaen from The Netherlands got the impression that the car might be bought at a bargain. One visit and a few phone calls later Gerard was the new owner. This was in 1994. The first time Gerard saw the car he thought the car was a lost case and abandoned the idea of buying it. Life was already challenging enough. However after some sleepless nights he thought this car would be a true challenge and worth putting in the effort. After all the looks of a 3500 GT had always been his favourite and it was clear that they would never come less expensive and more honest (already sandblasted) than this one. With already having second thoughts he bought the car and with the help of some friend he transported the car from the UK to the Netherlands. There the car was not better off than in the UK. Gerard first had to finish some other unfinished business. But although the 3500 GT was originally bought for future leisure time some hesitant steps were set on the unpredictable path of total body restoration. No dents or faults were found in the chassis. The aluminium body at some points rather resembled Swiss cheese than solid metal. Nearly all corrosion was the result of electrolytic corrosion caused by the 6 mm reinforcement steel wire that was used to make the aluminium body more rigorous. Inquiries about welding aluminium body parts were discouraging and most advises were to get a professional restoration firm to do the body work. That of course was no option. The car was bought as a hobby and to pay others to practice their hobby was no tempting prospect. Somebody told Gerard to convert his welding machine and just try if it would be possible to weld the aluminium body panels. The Swiss cheese would not get worse from a few welding attempts. He made some tests and to his surprise it was not so difficult at all to weld the aluminium body panels. He decided to remove all steels 6 mm reinforcement wire and replace them with 8 mm aluminium. This had the advantage that the body panels and the reinforcement wires could be welded together and that the problem of electrolytic corrosion would be by-passed. It turned out to be a lot of welding work to link the reinforcement wires and to repair the corrosion in the attached body panels, but it worked well. The body restoration took quite a while, but it turned out very well. Next the body was handed over to a paint professional were it stayed for about two years. The car was only worked on if there was nothing else to do. About two years ago the body returned after a complete re-spray and Gerard is now re-assembling the car. Gerard is inding the car rebuild as very complicated, his only previous experience being Alfa Romeos. He finds spare parts to be extremely difficult to find and outrageously expensive. Luckily he has a good support group of professionals. He has found that nearly all parts of this 40+ car require complete overhaul with machining new parts or adapting threads. Quotes for overhaul of the engine were so outrages that it was much more intelligent to buy a recently overhauled engine and drive train in Germany. Now progress is very slow and troublesome. Gerard hopes his car will be worth the effort and eventually will prove a good and comfortable driving car.
Coppa Milano-San Remo, 2005 (Suisse, entry #73, 1961 GT)
Added march 2007.
Offered for sale in March 1992. It came with a rebuild engine and gearbox. Also paint, interieur and windscreen were rebuild or replaced.
Owned by Robert Augustinus from 1980. 1994 restored to color nero. 2001 sold to Museo di Quattroruote (price cento lire).
For sale at eBay november 2009
In 2004 this car was offerd for sale at dutch classic car dealer Smiths Veglia. As far as i know the car was not sold. In 2005 the car was offered for sale again by Aaldering in the Netherlands. After a long time the car was no longer shown on their website, not even a message that it was sold whas shown. It's still is in Holland where it was first registered in may 2002.
July 2010
Christopher Lux found this car while helping a famely friend clean out her garages after the passing of her husband.
It was had buried it under boxes and trash. Chasis number is 101-1410 and it is not in the best shape.
It does however have many original parts including the grille, all interior gagues, original wheels and windows
and all insignias such as Touring Milan, Superleggara, etc. It still has the ashtrays inside with Maserati emblems on them.
Appeared in Swedish carmagazine Bilsport (1997/98). Driven by Greta Molander and co-driver to Rallye Monte Carlo (1998/99). For sale by lastrada.no (2000). In april 2001 the car was sold by the owner Ivar Aage Moe to Pasquale De Falco in Germany. It's currently under restoration. July 2007. Pasquale De Falco has send me the following info. A friend of mine received a datasheet from Maserati Modena in Italy from my car. It says that first owner was Mr. Hans Leuthold from Baar in Switzerland. Original colour is rosso rubino metalizzato Max Meyer 16.213, original interior in leather connolly bianca pac. 1544, carpets grigio scuro (dark grey). The car was build in april 1961. In 1993 were two requests for the car at Maserati Modena, one from England and one from Norway. As far as I know the car spent some time in England in the early nineties before going to Norway and finally to Germany. I still have a statement from 4th of february 1993 signed by Dott. Ing. Giordano Casarini from Maserati S.p.A. that chassis No. 1420 was build in 1961.
The car was originally ordered by Mr. Hassan Kamil in 1960 through the official Maserati representative and dealer in Zurich, Ernst Bjarsch. Mr. Kamil was an Egyptian citizen living in Zurich. The car was a gift for his wife.
Januari 2010. Fate of the car is unknown.
The engine is fitted in 101-2234.
The was offered for sale at eBay in june 2007. The seller writes: 61k kilometers indicated on the odometer, 4-speed, White/Red, good exterior repaint (about 20 years old) in the original color. Three Dual Choke Webber carberators. Sub frame is solid, aluminum sills are also very solid. Electric windows, rebuilt brakes calipers, fresh fluids (oil coolant, and brake fluid), excellent as new distributor cap. All seats are original to the car and have never been refurbished, original leather door panels and vinyl headliner. Is in good running condition, good exhaust, generator charges, runs cool, good oil pressure, thermostats work, new battery, clutch is good, shifts smoothly into all gears. Car is complete and sports original glass and manuals the only part that is not orignal to the car is the side view mirror. Touring emblems and scripts are in excellent condition. Never been hit. 27 june 2007. I got the following news from Anthony Tersigni. This car has been in Athony's family since 1985 and they just recently sold it to its fourth owner. This car was originally sold in 1961 to Mr. Corrado Corradi in Milano, Italy in 1966 it was sold to it
The following information is from Jim Larkin: I purchased the car May 1970 from Eugene Cluster, Boston Mass. Eugene brought the car from Florence, Italy. On Nov. 2003 I sold 101.1456 to Jacob Bakker of the Netherlands. The photos here were taken Sept. 2003.
101-1466 was sold by Bonhams at Goodwood in June 2009
1962 Maserati 3500GT Coupé Coachwork by Touring Registration no. LSL 938 Chassis no. AM101 1466 Engine no. AM101 1466 Sold for £65,300 inclusive of Buyer's Premium
Januari 2008. After being driven the classic SLS rallye for some years, the car got a new coat of paint. It now has it's original color back and will be ready for the 2008 season soon.
The car went to a new owner in januari 2009.
2010 Car for sale at Copley Motors, USA.
March 2008. Showed up for sale in Joop Stolze's Maserati collection.
This car was offered for sale a E-bay by Jacques Pozzo di Borgo (2005). Offered for sale at eBay in Januari 2008 with the following story. This was a running car when I got it three years ago with working but soft hydraulics. It is a real (low roof) GT with a 5 speed transmission and the original water-cooled manifold The car has some rust in the floor pans but is definitely worth doing. The grille surround that comes with it is from a different car and needs some metal work. I have the correct side markers and will include them. A very original car that with some work will be the right one to have. I am missing the air cleaner assembly and the hubcaps.
This chassisnumber is allocated to a Frua coupe.
This chassisnumber is allocated to a Frua coupe.
Touring prototype with different front and rearend design.
For sale at eBay april 2008. THis story came with the sale: This car is mostly original but for one respray. It was originally silver as the dash shows, repainted red many years ago. The paint is showing signs of age after being in dry desert storage west of Los Angles for aprox 20 years. recently brought back to running and driving condition, but would need further reconditioning to be ready for highway use.
This the Milbrae Mystery Maserati! It has been stored for many years on a busy SF bay area street, outside, under a tree! Under a tree for over 10 years on a busy street, in full view of many drooling passers-by. At times when I've attempted to leave a note on it, there were already some in place from previous dreamers! The car seems VERY original, as it has been owned by the seller for the last 40 years. Of course it needs much work to get back operable, but I am very confident that it will be a fine car.
Olaf Boecking picture, although i've no further info this 3500 looks in good shape. (March 2005).
April 2006 This car is for sale by Olaf Boecking in Germany. May 2008 The car is under restoration in Germany and offered for sale when finished in 2009
Juli 2008. The car is under restoration at Barnato's in D
October 2007.The car still has it's 1961 Madrid registration.At this moment it is under restoration because even that the car was in average condition and running there are plenty of small details to improve.
August 2007. Restoration started by Olaf Boecking for new owner.
After 3 years of restoration work and 2 days before the 'Concorso Italiano 2007' Harry's car was finished. The result was 'Best 3500' and 'Best Maserati'.
Auction Automobiles de Collection Poulain LeFur, Palais des Congr
Added june 2010
March 2010 News from Rafael Pueche.
The car was sold new in Paris to a Spanish from the Embassy who had the car untill 1973 when the car was first registed in Spain
and it was in hands of the same family until we purchase the car few months ago.
This car came to the Netherlands in 1988. The owner stored the car for some years but when his company seized to exist it was sold to a garage owner in the Netherlands. From then on it was in his showroom for some years until it was sold to Nico Kuiper in 1998 who registerd it in 1999. He drove until 2004. Joep bought the car in august 2006. The following information came from Maserati: The vehicle was produced in May 1961, with original external color Blu Sera Max Meyer 16439 and original color Pelle Connolly Rossa Pac 1603. The vehicle was originally sold in Milan, Italy.
March 2008. For sale at the Gallery in Holland.
Offered for sale in VCM issue 79 - March 2000 as rolling chassis for $3000
Offered for sale at E-bay by Healy Werks in May 2005.
May 2011. For sale at Gullwing Motor Cars INC.
1st owner Mr Theadore Franklin Payton Beverly Hills California USA, Mr. R Kauffmann (possible Sacramento CA) owned the car until 20th of August 1964 John Savarino 4316 Hazelwood AV Sacramento CA as from 20th of August 1964 till ?? During the ownership of John Savarino the had license plate KYH 440. After John there has been a possible further owner in the US. On 11th of October 1989 the car showed up in Europe and from there on the history is know.
December 2009, news from Wilfried:
I am the third owner of the car since 1976.
Car was not used during more than twenty years, just carefully stored.
During the last 17 months I spent 500+ hours to put all those things
right which go wrong during storage: brakes, brake flexible lines,
brake servo, master cylinders for brake and clutch, secondary clutch cylinder,
all cooling water hoses, checked radiator for water and for oil, added thermostat
(there was a simple Y instead of the thermostat), replaced HV leads,
repaired both fuel pumps, replaced flexible fuel tubes, cleaned reservoir,
repaired fuel gauge, replaced the two electrical contacts on steering wheel column,
stopped leak on water pump rear cover (not the graphite seal!), balanced
the 4-blade fan which was (originally) heavily out of balance, repaired
speedometer cable, added main switch to the battery, repaired the handbrake
release knob, eliminated small oil leaks on crankshaft ends by adding a positive,
electric crankcase ventilation, put on 5 new Vredestein tyres, replaced the
complete exhaust system.. Repainted the sills and gave a polish to the
still original paint of the body. The car runs now very well, has passed
the examination as „voiture de collection“ with its 60'000 km.
3500 GT with Ford V8 351 Cleveland installed.
Added april 2011. Engine only
Now fitted in 101-2650.
Februari 2011 Sold as project car.
A German 3500 owner has interior panals marked 101-1654, the car was probebly scrapped.
Februari 2009. Maserati 3500GT AM 101-1682. Left factory 10/7 1961, collor Bianca, interior nera Borani wire wheels, first owner Autok
2005 This car is currently under restoration.
September 2009 101.1710 is now in the Italia Classic Company. The car will be completly restored.
Februari 2009. Fate of the car is unknown. Previous owner brought it to a UK based car broker AutoCrats in 1989. It was in bad condition. Any news someone?. Let me know.
June 2007. For sale by in Switzerland.
