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#2089 towed by a local truck after de Berardinis had crashed it in the Salita delle Torricelle Hillclimb in 1957. The front section was heavily damaged. (Actualfoto)
abandoned Pininfarina coupé body of #2060, which was stored in “Mimmo” Dei’s dealership (see the 2060 chapter) and commissioned Fiandri & Malagoli in Modena to mount it on his #2089. Giardini probably used his “new” Pininfarina berlinetta #2089 as a road-going coupé for a short time since no period photographs of him with the car have surfaced.
The car reappeared in 1967 with Gianfranco Carisdeo from Ancona. It was now in a full white livery, with additional rear and front bumpers, and two side air openings embellished with chromed bars. The front was transformed with a new rectangular grille which gave it a more modern but somewhat strange look. It was found by Tom Meade, an American resident in Modena who exported the
OPPOSITE: After the crash at Salita delle Torricelle, the car came back as a Pininfarina coupé. It was the original coachwork of a different A6GCS (see the #2060 chapter) that had been stored by “Mimmo” Dei. One of the later owners modified the radiator opening to a more rectangular design. Found by Tom Meade in Italy in the late 1970s, the car was sold with that body to the US. (Walter Bäumer Collection)
Maserati to the US and sold it to Boris Subbotin, an electrical engineer from Tarzana, California who restored and painted it dark red, as seen in the Road & Track magazine issue of March 1980. He offered #2089 in the Maserati magazine Viale Ciro Menotti, no.45 in 1986 for sale, asking US$120,000.
The car came back to Europe and was sold to Dietrich von Boetticher of Munich, who sold it to banker and Maserati historic racer Thomas Bscher of Cologne. He kept it until September of 2000 when it was sold to a famous hotel magnate. The Pininfarina berlinetta #2089 was then fully restored by David Carte from Edinburg, Virginia, who rebuilt the car to its former front end with an oval grille but kept its non-original side outlets.
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