Osca MT4

This car was on display (I think by the Maserati Club) in the paddock at The Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998.

It's an Osca MT4 2AD and behind it is a Maserati motorcycle. When the Maserati brothers Ernesto, Ettore and Bindo sold their shares in the Maserati company to Adolfo Orsi in 1937 they agreed a contract to stay with the company for 10 years, and in 1947 when the contract terminated they formed a new company, Officine Specializzate Costruzione Automobile (O.S.C.A.) - more usually known as Osca. Their initial aim was to build a car for the 1100cc class of sports car racing, and their first car was the 1,092cc MT4 with the engine based on a 4-cylinder Fiat unit. The MT4 was produced until 1953 with the engine being enlarged to 1,453 cc for the later cars.