This ’50s Maserati is one of the first of the second series A6GCS’ to leave the Maserati factory. (I would like to note, now that I have learned more about these cars, that the A6GCS/53 Maseratis were the revision of the A6GCS. These chassis were known as “A6GCS/53”, or “Sport2000”. The “/53” simply indicates when they began production, which was in March of 1953. Also, if you wanted to know, the “A” stands for Alfieri, the “6” stands for six cylinder, the “G” is for Ghisa (Iron), and the “CS” stands for Corsa and Sports.) Anyways, this was one of the first of those cars to leave the factory.
This is chassis no. 2049 and was assigned to Carrozzeria Vignale, and commissioned by Tony Parravano to build a spider based on the A6GCS/53. It was designed by Giovanni Michelotti and was built in a very short amount of time so it could be displayed at the 1953 Turin Motor Show. With Alfredo Vignale’s metal shaping skills combined with the design of Michelotti, they made an extremely astounding and original body.
Two years later, the car returned to Italy to be refitted with a new spider body that was built by Scaglietti.
This body caught my eye because of how similar it looked to the 1952 Alfa Romeo C52 Disco Volante that was built by Touring mixed with the stock spyder body of the 2nd series A6GCS. I think it made a wonderfully odd and cool body to gaze upon.
– Zane L.
sources:
- Gianni Cancellieri, All the cars Maserati, 2015
- WheelsAge.org
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