The Vintage Sports Car Club's SeeRed meeting at Oulton Park in September 2005 paid tribute to the Maserati marque, and the car pictured below was one of a number that were displayed in the Paddock Suite.
It's a 1959 Maserati T61, chassis #2470, and has a 4-cylinder inline 2,890cc engine. The T61, and the 1,989cc T60 were generally known as Maserati Birdcage cars because of the intricate tubular space frame chassis, and in common with many of these cars 2470 started off life in the USA. After passing through various hands in the USA, and being owned at one time in the 1980s by Lord Hesketh, it was acquired by Tony Smith in 1998, and since then has been sold to a German racing enthusiast, Constantin von Dziembowski. Sixteen examples of the T61 were produced between 1959 and 1961.
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