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Solved - NEH 4401: 1967 Frua Maserati Mexico being restored at Redline Restorations
« on: December 17, 2015, 05:41:17 AM »
What's this car, for 1 point?:

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Re: NEH 4401
« Reply #1 on: December 24, 2015, 04:00:30 AM »
Experts?
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Re: NEH 4401
« Reply #2 on: December 29, 2015, 06:55:28 PM »
Modified production car ?
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Re: NEH 4401
« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2015, 03:48:05 AM »
Quote from: 72Must on December 29, 2015, 06:55:28 PM
Modified production car ?

Base is a production car but it's not a production body..
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Re: NEH 4401
« Reply #4 on: December 30, 2015, 09:44:57 AM »
Is there a trident involved? Has a look of the aga khan's quattroporte...
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Re: NEH 4401
« Reply #5 on: December 30, 2015, 09:49:52 AM »
Quote from: iani on December 30, 2015, 09:44:57 AM
Is there a trident involved? Has a look of the aga khan's quattroporte...

Yes there is - well-spotted!
It's nothing to do with any quattroporte but you're not far away at all so I'll lock it for you until your next reply.
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Re: NEH 4401
« Reply #6 on: December 30, 2015, 10:47:35 AM »
Frua bodied Maserati Mexico then, I can find one in silver on t'interweb but not that exact one... Scarily there is a BMW-Glas Frua from 1967 that looks identical! Save that for another quiz?
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Re: NEH 4401
« Reply #7 on: December 30, 2015, 11:20:42 AM »
Quote from: iani on December 30, 2015, 10:47:35 AM
Frua bodied Maserati Mexico then, I can find one in silver on t'interweb but not that exact one... Scarily there is a BMW-Glas Frua from 1967 that looks identical! Save that for another quiz?

That's what it is, yes.
It's under restoration at Redline Restorations.
I think you'll find the Frua BMW-Glas (which dates from the same year as this Maserati) has already been puzzled here..
Your first Expert point!
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Re: Solved - NEH 4401: 1967 Frua Maserati Mexico being restored at Redline Restorations
« Reply #8 on: December 30, 2015, 11:50:31 AM »
Yay, getting there. Saves me setting up the Beemer for a quiz then...
Happy New year!
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Re: Solved - NEH 4401: 1967 Frua Maserati Mexico being restored at Redline Restorations
« Reply #9 on: December 31, 2015, 05:27:32 AM »
Below is what the car used to look like (or maybe it looks like it now if the resto is finished!).

Frua actually made three Mexicos, all different and all very nice!
Two of them were, I think, prototypes but this one is said to have been built up from a modified Maserati Mistral, which I suppose is possible, as a commission.

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