I took this photograph at Luffield
corner during the Historic Grand Prix Cars Association Sports Car Race at the
Christie's International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992.
It's Thomas Bscher in his 1957
Maserati 450S, and as with many Maseratis it's a bit of a conundrum. It seems
to be either chassis 4505 or 4506 and originally had a 4½ litre V8 engine. The
barchetta.cc history of 4505 says that it was renumbered to 4506 in 1957 and
sold to John Edgar in June of that year. In July 1958 John Edgar had a 6.3
litre Pontiac engine installed in the car, but about 12 months later this was
replaced with a 5.7 litre Maserati V8 unit. In 1980 when in the ownership of
Peter Kaus a 6.2 litre Maserati marine engine was fitted and the car was
acquired by Thomas Bscher around 1990. The programme of this Silverstone
meeting showed the engine capacity to be 5,600cc.
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