Description
1961 Maserati 3500 GT with carburettors, complete, frame-off restoration. All parts are supplied with the car and in need of restoration. First owner was the famous Emilio Giletti. Emilio Giletti participated in 25 races between 1951 and 1955, racing mainly in Ferrari and Maserati cars. In 1953, his big break came when Maserati decided to offer three young drivers the chance to drive their sports cars: Emilio was chosen along with Luigi Musso and Sergio Mantovani. With the Officine Alfieri Maserati team he achieved his greatest victory, taking first prize in his class and 6th place overall at the 1953 Mille Miglia. Maserati A6GCS at the 1953 Mille Miglia, driven by Emilio Giletti and Guerino Bertocchi in 6th place overall (1st in class) During this period he achieved a number of successes, including a non-championship victory in the 1952 Trofeo Sardo and a podium finish in the 1953 Targa Florio. Giletti participated in only one Formula One race, at the 1953 Modena Grand Prix, but retired due to a broken valve in his Maserati A6GCM. He was also entered in the 1954 Gran Premio de la Republica Argentina, but then Maserati gave the drive to Musso: 'At the Syracuse GP I was going faster than a second a lap. I did a complete lap in the middle of a curve that the Sicilians had renamed "Cemetery". Fangio wanted me to walk a lap and tell him at each point what gear I had engaged and where I had braked. He was one of the few who was fast both on the circuits and in road races. A great connoisseur of mechanics. He tried four cars, then at the end of the day he said: 'Put this engine on this chassis. And the others had the chassis. That happened to me in the Modena GP in F. 2, so much so that the car stopped after a few laps. But in general he wasn't jealous. In free practice at Monza, where I was a reserve, he explained to me how I had to tackle the Lesmo curve, which at the time was in full swing after the straight, at 230 kilometres. 'Go in hard and put the wheels where I put them'. But my favourite terrain was definitely the roads of the Targa Florio, with mud and rain, or the Passo della Futa-Raticosa and Radicofani at the Mille Miglia, where you took risks because of the narrow, hard-as-wood tyres'. It is no coincidence that in 1961 Fangio and Giletti owned two Maserati 3500 GTs. Fangio's car was sold privately after it was estimated at between 475, 000 and 575, 000 euros at auction.
