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with the fast Swede Joakim Bonnier in #2065 with race number 56. The two drivers shared the driving during the seven hours and finished eighteenth overall and first in the 2-liter category. The final event of the 1955 season was held on the Castle Combe Circuit near Bristol, UK on October 1, where Loëns finished fifth overall.
For the 1956 season, #2065 reappeared with a new red windshield support contrasting with its blue body, in Helsinki, Finland, for the Eläintarhanajo, raced on May 10 and Loëns finished fifth. He was then in Belgium at Chimay for the Grand Prix des Frontières on May 20, where he did not finish the race that was won by the new Maserati 300S of Benoit Musy. Back in France at the Grand Prix des Sables d’Olonne on July 15, Loëns crossed the finish line second again behind the 300S of Benoit Musy.
On August 12, the A6GCS with Loëns at the wheel won the Cran d’Escalle Hillclimb near Calais, and one week later, on August 19, they were in Denmark on the Roskilde Ring on the island of Zealand for the 2-liter race and placed third. In Sweden at Karlskoga for the Kanonloppet race on August 26, they were second to the Swede Björn Martenson in a Ferrari 500 Mondial, and then the tireless Loëns was back on the Roskilde Ring where he finished third on September 9. The racing season ended for the Frenchman and his blue
A rare color photograph #2065 in Chimay for the 1956 Grand Prix des Frontières. (Damien Vandenvorde Collection)
Maserati in France at Montlhéry for the Coupe d’Automne on September 23 with a third place, and a ninth place on October 7 at the Coupes du Salon, an international event as seen in a photograph showing Stirling Moss, Alfonso de Portago, Harry Schell and André Loëns conversing with happy faces while walking on the track.
In Helsinki, #2065 took part in the Eläintarhanajo race on May 12, 1957, with a fifth place for André Loëns while Joakim Bonnier won with his Maserati 200S. On May 30 Loëns was back in France for the 2 Hours of Forez, a road circuit near Saint-Etienne and although he was seen with #2065 at the controls, he did not start for an unknown reason. Later in July 1957, Loëns was in Modena at the Maserati factory to take delivery of his new 200S, trading his tired #2065, as mentioned in the factory archives.
André Loëns was killed in a race accident at the wheel of his 200S while he was leading at the Coupes du Salon in Montlhéry on October 6, 1957. It is unknown what happened with #2065 after Loëns exchanged it. The car reappeared in Italy in the 1990s and was then in Germany in the early 2000s. It was later sold to the UK where it changed hands twice until it was purchased in 2014 by its current owner from the UK who also resides in France.
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