1964 | Maserati Sebring

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This car auction is on www.bonhamscarsonline.com. The price shown is the lower estimate. To see more details, read the full description and see 200+ photographs & video please visit our www.bonhamscarsonline.com. It is free to Register an account and bid. There is no Buy it Now or part-exchange. Here is a brief excerpt taken from the auction description;

This car comes to us courtesy of a vendor who has owned it since 2021, having part-exchanged a Lamborghini Gallardo in order to buy it.

Clearly, then, a man of incontrovertible taste and discernment. 

He tells us he has owned Maseratis since 1992 and, although he admits to the occasional dalliance with Italian brands featuring prancing horses and raging bulls, he always returns to the trident.

Manufactured in April 1964 and delivered new to a Maserati concession in Holland Park, the car later spent some time on a ranch in Arizona US before returning to these shores to be issued with the correct, 1964 ‘B’ registration number. 

The car is an original matching numbers (chassis and engine) vehicle.

In 2003, it was bought by a car dealer and restorer (who is very well-known to us here at HQ) who decided to replace the car’s Lucas fuel injection system with triple Weber 45 DCOE carbs, and an original new old-stock factory inlet manifold with all new gaskets and linkage.

We understand that this conversion cost in excess of £3,500.

He sold the car with the original Lucas injection system intact, functioning and in the boot of the car.

Prior to buying the car from Specialist Vehicle Solutions in 2021, the current vendor commissioned premier Maserati whisperers McGrath to conduct a full inspection, road test and a list of proposed remedial/maintenance tasks. 

Very sensibly (and expensively), the vendor gave McGrath his consent to proceed and they promptly spent nearly 142 man-hours on the work advised, at a total cost of over £17,000. 

He also reinstated the original Lucas injection system and had it optimised and fettled by McGrath.

At some point between the car’s re-entry to the UK and, we think, 2009, it was comprehensively and expertly restored, including a full engine rebuild. We don’t know the details and neither does the vendor, despite numerous attempts by him to hunt out the history and provenance.

Some time after 2009, 'BNF 98B' received a new clutch and was given a full respray - with the bonnet, boot and doors detached and the glass removed. 

Today, the car’s odometer reads 59,398 miles.

In 2009, the mileage was recorded as being 58,427.

Clearly, then, this car has been leading a rather pampered and sedentary life for the last few years.

We have driven this stunning vehicle. It is roughly the same age as your author and, like him, it takes a little while to clear its throat and warm up from cold. But when it’s up to operating temperature and the gearbox oil is sufficiently lubricious, this car’s pedigree GT quality and class shine through. 

There’s no mistaking the fact that you’re driving a very well screwed together, low mileage example and one that’s spent considerable parts of its life under hot, dry Arizona skies - and the rest of it properly curated and cared-for in warm, dry storage facilities.

It feels balanced and poised, picking up pace with enthusiasm. It presses on, handles and stops with surprisingly modern characteristics and feel. 

And when you catch sight of its elegant, sleek, rakish reflection in a plate-glass window, your heart will skip a beat.

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