1957 Maserati 150GT Spider Fantuzzi
Maserati 150GT Spider Fantuzzi 1957
Engine: In-line 4-cylinder DOHC
Bore & Stroke : 81 mm x 72 mm
Total displacement - 1484 cc
Power - 140 hp at 7500 rpm
Top speed - 220 km/h
In 1957 Adolfo Orsi decided to place a second vehicle with a smaller cylinder capacity alongside the 3500G T. This prototype was therefore presented and assembled using a racing chassis and the slightly depowered 4-cylinder engine of the 150S. The aluminium bodywork was built by Medardo Fantuzzi, the coach builder for all the racing Maseratis.
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.
Engine: In-line 4-cylinder DOHC
Bore & Stroke : 81 mm x 72 mm
Total displacement - 1484 cc
Power - 140 hp at 7500 rpm
Top speed - 220 km/h
In 1957 Adolfo Orsi decided to place a second vehicle with a smaller cylinder capacity alongside the 3500G T. This prototype was therefore presented and assembled using a racing chassis and the slightly depowered 4-cylinder engine of the 150S. The aluminium bodywork was built by Medardo Fantuzzi, the coach builder for all the racing Maseratis.
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.
