This car was part of a display of Maserati cars in the Paddock Suite at the VSCC's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2005 where Maserati was the featured marque.
It's a 1931 Maserati Tipo 26M which was at that time owned by Julian Majzub. The 26M has a supercharged 8-cylinder inline 2,495cc engine and 15 of the cars were produced between 1930 and 1932. This car is chassis #2512 and was originally owned by Umberto Klinger of Ferrera. The car was acquired by John Appleton in 1932, and he shortened the chassis and replaced the Maserati engine with that from a Riley Nine as he considered the car to be under-powered. The two-seater body was replaced in 1935 by a single-seater and the car became known as the Appleton Special. It competed in this guise, with several changes along the way, until the late 1990s when the then owner Julian Majzub restored the car back to something like its original condition.
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