Maserati A6GCS Chassis #2076

[Dave B]

This is my take on the A6GCS Fantuzzi Spyder, modified by Fiandri, purchased by Alfonso (Fon) de Portago on April 27, 1954 and delivered May 27, 1951.  It was only entered in 3 events by Fon and I have depicted his entry for the Circuit de Metz where wearing #42 he finished 1st outright.  His only other 2 outings, Le Mans and Reims, resulted in DNF's.  The car was then sold to Pierro Airaldi who managed to right it off at his third event.

The body and wheels are resin prints by my mate Phil, tyres are old Merit's and the interior is from my resin stash.  Grille and headlights were home made from fuse wire (grille) and aluminium tube (headlights obviously!!)

 

Body painted in auto acrylics and clear coated.

Tks for looking

Dave B

[Dave B]

Before and after pics.

Dave B

[Rich Chernosky]

Beautiful build Dave. A lot of creativity and hard work are obvious here. Sad to see it written off but you have preserved it in scale so it is not lost.  The history of the car just adds to this build...thanks. 

[Jim B]

Cool Maserati.  Well done.

[ChrisR]

Very nice!

[Gramps46]

3 hours ago, Rich Chernosky said:

Beautiful build Dave. A lot of creativity and hard work are obvious here. Sad to see it written off but you have preserved it in scale so it is not lost.  The history of the car just adds to this build...thanks. 

What Rich said X2.

[Pierre Rivard]

Another beauty to add to your stable of unique and wonderful replicas. Wonderful add of period pictures of the car help portray the fidelity of your replica.

The Tasmanian magician strikes again!

[1959scudetto]

Well done, Dave - very interesting car and history: with its elongated nose it looks almost the same front and rear in the side view.

I followed your WIP and was mostly impressed by your creating the grille - fantastic !

[PappyD340]

Very nice!

[Bruce Scully]

A lot of nice work in this , looks great , well done .

[slusher]

Beautiful build!

[ewetwo]

Excellent David.

[Funkychiken]

It's a beautiful subject and build!