Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este - The Trident twinkled at the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este on the shore of beautiful lake Como in northern Italy.
21/04/2006 - 23/04/2006Cernobbio
A regular fixture at the end of April, the event never fails to amaze due to a careful selection of the rarest and most desirable classics the world can offer.
Europe’s most eagerly anticipated Concours event was revived in 1995 to celebrate the high-class gathering set in the same location as it was between 1929 and 1949. Over the last ten years, it has attracted the cream of the car collecting world, and Maseratis of yesteryear have regularly collected awards there despite fierce competition.
For instance, the prestigious Coppa d’Oro (Gold Cup), decided by public vote and sanctioning the Best of Show, went to a second series A6G 2000 (better known as A6G/54) coupé by Frua in 2002.
The car belonged to the prominent Maserati collector John Bookout, who takes part in the Concours every year with the latest addition to his stable. In this year’s edition, he won the highly significant prize for the best restoration with his first series A6G 2000 Frua Spyder, one of only five ever built. Appropriately, the car had been painstakingly restored over the last two and a half years by specialists around Modena, under the expert guidance of Adolfo Orsi Jr. and his consultancy Historica Selecta.
Of no lesser interest were two resplendent A6G/54 Zagato berlinettas. Just 19 of these competition-oriented GTs were bodied by the famed Milanese coachbuilder between 1954 and 1956, yet the hand-crafted nature of their construction was clearly put in evidence by the many variations between the two cars, fittingly exhibited side by side. The earlier one, finished in dark blue, was shown bumper-less and with few chrome lashings except for a distinctive grille feature with three bars framing the Trident.
Its lower window profile and slab sides made it appear somewhat sleeker, more radically proportioned than its sister car.
Owned by well-known enthusiast David Sydorick, the red example is the only one known with certainty to have featured the famous Zagato “double-bubble” pavilion from birth, and shows various added features such as bonnet scoop and central crest, side air vents, sculpted rear flanks and a rounder nose with protruding front grille.
Yet even Maserati fanatics could be forgiven for overlooking this exciting pair of thoroughbreds, for there were two further Trident-badged attractions worthy of attention at the event. One was the Birdcage 75th show car designed in 2005 by Pininfarina on a racing MC12 chassis. Perhaps it was only the fact that it had already been exhibited last year as part of the design house’s anniversary celebrations which prevented it from winning in the special Concept Car class.
Nonetheless, it gained the respect of everyone present when its fabulous engine was fired up for the traditional parade on the parterre of the Grand Hotel Villa d’Este. That amazing sound will no doubt remain impressed for years to come in the minds of unsuspecting hotel guests!
The other was the seldom-seen 1972 Boomerang show car by Italdesign, exhibited for the first time following its record sale at auction one year ago. The breathtaking wedge-shaped supercar counts as one of Giorgetto Giugiaro’s milestone creations, its pedigree helped by the 4.9 V8 Bora underpinnings it lies on. In fact, this true sculpture on wheels was made fully road-legal in the process of its early-1990s restoration in the UK, and its new owner Frenchman André Binda had no hesitation in driving the car on open roads all the way from Nice to Como! The trip did not go without trouble, simply because the wheels had not been properly checked and he suffered no less than four tyre failures along the way.
ndeterred, he pushed along, only finding it uneasy to reach for a motorway ticket at pay tolls given the low height of the car and minimal side window opening… The world needs more enthusiasts like this. Just imagine the reaction of people who were passed by this unique UFO on their way to work.
The Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este has this unique ability to bring together the most passionate people and the objects of their dreams. Participants, public, journalists alike were justly rewarded this year by two days of splendid sunshine, in what must be one of the most ideal settings imaginable for such a party. How good to know that Maseratis, both vintage and modern, fitted so perfectly into the picture.
A regular fixture at the end of April, the event never fails to amaze due to a careful selection of the rarest and most desirable classics the world can offer.
Europe’s most eagerly anticipated Concours event was revived in 1995 to celebrate the high-class gathering set in the same location as it was between 1929 and 1949. Over the last ten years, it has attracted the cream of the car collecting world, and Maseratis of yesteryear have regularly collected awards there despite fierce competition.
For instance, the prestigious Coppa d’Oro (Gold Cup), decided by public vote and sanctioning the Best of Show, went to a second series A6G 2000 (better known as A6G/54) coupé by Frua in 2002.
The car belonged to the prominent Maserati collector John Bookout, who takes part in the Concours every year with the latest addition to his stable. In this year’s edition, he won the highly significant prize for the best restoration with his first series A6G 2000 Frua Spyder, one of only five ever built. Appropriately, the car had been painstakingly restored over the last two and a half years by specialists around Modena, under the expert guidance of Adolfo Orsi Jr. and his consultancy Historica Selecta.
Of no lesser interest were two resplendent A6G/54 Zagato berlinettas. Just 19 of these competition-oriented GTs were bodied by the famed Milanese coachbuilder between 1954 and 1956, yet the hand-crafted nature of their construction was clearly put in evidence by the many variations between the two cars, fittingly exhibited side by side. The earlier one, finished in dark blue, was shown bumper-less and with few chrome lashings except for a distinctive grille feature with three bars framing the Trident.
Its lower window profile and slab sides made it appear somewhat sleeker, more radically proportioned than its sister car.
Owned by well-known enthusiast David Sydorick, the red example is the only one known with certainty to have featured the famous Zagato “double-bubble” pavilion from birth, and shows various added features such as bonnet scoop and central crest, side air vents, sculpted rear flanks and a rounder nose with protruding front grille.
Yet even Maserati fanatics could be forgiven for overlooking this exciting pair of thoroughbreds, for there were two further Trident-badged attractions worthy of attention at the event. One was the Birdcage 75th show car designed in 2005 by Pininfarina on a racing MC12 chassis. Perhaps it was only the fact that it had already been exhibited last year as part of the design house’s anniversary celebrations which prevented it from winning in the special Concept Car class.
Nonetheless, it gained the respect of everyone present when its fabulous engine was fired up for the traditional parade on the parterre of the Grand Hotel Villa d’Este. That amazing sound will no doubt remain impressed for years to come in the minds of unsuspecting hotel guests!
The other was the seldom-seen 1972 Boomerang show car by Italdesign, exhibited for the first time following its record sale at auction one year ago. The breathtaking wedge-shaped supercar counts as one of Giorgetto Giugiaro’s milestone creations, its pedigree helped by the 4.9 V8 Bora underpinnings it lies on. In fact, this true sculpture on wheels was made fully road-legal in the process of its early-1990s restoration in the UK, and its new owner Frenchman André Binda had no hesitation in driving the car on open roads all the way from Nice to Como! The trip did not go without trouble, simply because the wheels had not been properly checked and he suffered no less than four tyre failures along the way.
ndeterred, he pushed along, only finding it uneasy to reach for a motorway ticket at pay tolls given the low height of the car and minimal side window opening… The world needs more enthusiasts like this. Just imagine the reaction of people who were passed by this unique UFO on their way to work.
The Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este has this unique ability to bring together the most passionate people and the objects of their dreams. Participants, public, journalists alike were justly rewarded this year by two days of splendid sunshine, in what must be one of the most ideal settings imaginable for such a party. How good to know that Maseratis, both vintage and modern, fitted so perfectly into the picture.
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