1958 Maserati 300S

This car competed in the Louis Vuitton '50s Sports Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1995.

It's the 1958 Maserati 300S of Burkhard von Schenk with the 6-cylinder inline 2,991cc engine derived from that of the Grand Prix Maserati 250F, and is chassis #3082. Its early history is rather sketchy, but it appears to have started off in Angola where it took part in the Angolan Grand Prix five times between 1958 and 1963. Álvaro Lopes drove the car on four of those occasions and in 1962 it was driven by Flávio dos Santos, the best result being when Álvaro Lopes took third place in 1963. It eventually went to South Africa where it remained until the 1980s when it came to the UK and was acquired by the notable German collector and historic racer Burkhard von Schenk.