<< Prev Page 2 of 2 Pinin Farina completed the first example late in 1953, and a second quickly followed. Fitted with a lower roof and twin-piece front windshield, it was displayed at the Turin Motor Show, no doubt making quite an impression. Although not necessarily intended as a racing car, the second A6GCS/53 Pinin Farina Berlinetta was soon after its Turin debut raced in the Mille Miglia where it failed to finish. The first car was also raced, crashing out of the Giro di Sicilia. In 1954 a further two examples were built, one of which was shown at the Auto Salon in Paris.
Circumspect in their creation, the four A6GCS/53 Pinin Farina Berlinettas certainly also had a colourful life. Two of the four had their spectacular bodies removed very early on for a variety of reasons. It is believed that both these bodies did survive and were later fitted to different A6GCS/53 chassis. In more recent years efforts to reunite the bodies with their original chassis have failed and for at least one car a new body was constructed in the style of the Pinin Farina Berlinettas. To complicate things even further, during this process two more replica bodies were constructed.
The very close ties between Ferrari and Pinin Farina meant that the Turin-based coach-builder clothed no more Maseratis for many decades to come. This finally changed in more recent years when Pininfarina designed the Maserati Quattroporte and GranTurismo. It does not take much imagination to see that the striking A6GCS/53 Berlinetta formed a major inspiration for these designs. Of the two surviving original cars, one is owned by the Panini Museum, while the other is private hands and only very rarely seen in public. << Prev Page 2 of 2
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A6GCS/53 Pinin Farina Berlinetta
Pinin Farina completed the first example late in 1953, and a second quickly followed. Fitted with a lower roof and twin-piece front windshield, it was displayed at the Turin Motor Show, no doubt making quite an impression. Although not necessarily intended as a racing car, the second A6GCS/53 Pinin Farina Berlinetta was soon after its Turin debut raced in the Mille Miglia where it failed to finish. The first car was also raced, crashing out of the Giro di Sicilia. In 1954 a further two examples were built, one of which was shown at the Auto Salon in Paris.