AM101.993

Originally the property of the King of Morocco, this 3500GT Spyder underwent a total restoration by Bill McGrath Maserati in the mid-nineties. Continue Reading »

It had begun a few weeks earlier. The phone call out of blue, asking me to go to Belgium to look at a car. Now I stood in the early morning fog at Zaventum airport, waiting for my lift to Ghent and a very special appointment. Continue Reading »

AM115/49*1956

As had become common in the late eighties, this Ghibli was actually on its way to the guillotine to be chopped into a Spyder when committed Maserati collector Alexander Fyshe saved it. Continue Reading »

One would have thought, given the number of 5000GTs I have covered over the last few years for Auto Italia, that by now the famously mighty performance generated by 325 horsepower of quad cam V8 would have become just another notch on this motoring writer’s dipstick. Yet the truth was that I had never driven one more than the few yards from cosseting garage to photogenic location, and even though I credit myself with a little imagination, it remains tricky to expound the virtues of a 170mph supercar when one has never been out of first gear. Continue Reading »

While every restoration carried out by the team at Bill McGrath Maserati is special, a 3500GTI that was completed in August held particular significance. For this was Bill McGrath’s own car, the first Maserati that he bought way back in 1973, so linking his name with the Modenese marque for the next quarter century. Continue Reading »

AM101.1120.

It was as long ago as 1988 that this early, carburetted, right hand drive 3500GT arrived in Kimpton. For years before, it had stood in the grounds of Sorn Castle in Ayr, part of the eclectic collection of the late Bobby Macintyre. Continue Reading »