Three Maserati 'Birdcage' cars took part in the Historic Grand Prix Cars Association Sports Car Race at the Christie's International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992, one 2-litre T60 model and two of the 3-litre T61's. All three are pictured below.
The car above and below is Nick Mason's 2-litre 1959 Maserati T60 and is chassis #2466.
This is Lindsay Owen-Jones' 3-litre 1960 Maserati T61. chassis #2458.
Above and below is Jeffrey Pattinson's 3-litre 1961 Maserati T61, chassis #2453.
The programme of the event said this about the 'Birdcage' Maseratis:
'Maserati's final fling on the international stage was with their legendary 'Birdcage' models, so named because of the multitude of small tubes which made up their chassis. They proved faster than anything else in 1960 but also more fragile, though the quasi-works Camoradi team managed to win the gruelling 1000km at the Nürburgring that year and again in 1961.
The car entered here by Lindsay Owen-Jones is an ex-Camoradi T61, used once or twice by Stirling Moss (but not in his Nürburgring victory). Nick Mason's is a 2-litre version, a T60 rather than a 2.9-litre T61, originally campaigned by Scuderia Serenissima.'
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