iL TRIDENTE Online

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2005 CALENDAR

CONGRATULATIONS SEYMOUR!!! A very professional job well done.Just received my Maserati Club 2005 Calendar and the newest and best issue ever of IL TRIDENTE. I know all the time and effort it must have taken to produce such a masterpiece. You truly are dedicated and your great passion for Maserati is contagious.Thank you for all your contributions and making the Maserati Club what it is today.

Best regards,

:Michael Feldman
Rye, NY

To echo the Gambini letter, on the original hardtop that it was wearing in 1960 when crashed in Sweden, the blue stripe on the Corvette is precisely 4" wide.

In your May RMT ("Rocky Mountani Trident," the local newsletter of the Rocky Mountain Chapter) article and in some other car magazines I’ve seen, the 320S Barchetta Maserati shown in American racing colors. These were not however the CAMORADI color scheme. CAMORADI used a single 4-inch stripe with a flare out to the sides of the nose. The Birdcage on display with this car is apparently a Cunningham, rear-engined V12, probably a Tipo 63. (Ed. Note: yes actually another club member's car: Gabriele Artom of Milan)

In the old days, as some of our “senior” members may recall, cars raced in their national colors. This practice has been lost in the deluge of advertising, which (sad to say) I helped start in my Goodyear days. USA was white with blue trim as used by Cunningham and CAMORADI. England was a rich green, France: light blue, Germany: Silver, Belgium: yellow, and of course, Italy: red. Only Ferrari carries on this tradition these days in F1. Jaguar is trying with a lot of green and Prost with French blue, but the rest of the cars are all just big billboards. Sad, in my Goodyear days Shelby ran his Cobras in light French blue with white stripe. I never pinned him down as to why he didn’t race in American colors. Gurney ran his Eagles in F1 in a rich dark blue with a wide white stripe.

Steve Hart tuning up a CAMORADI Birdcage at the Lausitz Ring in
Germany, 06/30/01. (photo: sgpond)

I’ve just been contacted by Steve Hart, who owns Trident Motors, in Norfolk, England. He is a Maserati vintage specialist and is restoring the CAMORADI Birdcage LeMans Streamliner and the conventional Birdcage Nurburgring winner. Both are now owned by a Belgian enthusiast living in England. I’ve sent him all my materials on those cars.

Thanks for your E-Mail, I am happy that you received the pictures. They were taken in my neighborhood in Cologne (Köln), Germany in front of a old ranch from 1766. The Maserati is a 2001 Model and just 3 weeks old. The official color is #105 "Grigio Alfieri" (grey metallic). The wheels where installed through the dealer and have the normal in the front 235/8JX18 and in the back 265/9,5JX18. Now I have BBS 235/8JX19 and in the back 265/9,5JX19. Also there is a memory function for driver and passenger seat, seat heating (sometimes it's cold in Germany), and ASR System (I don't know the english translation).

Seymour I previously drove an Audi S8 4-wheel drive. The difference between the Audi and the Maserati is like the difference in flying a Jumbo Jet or a F-16. As you know we don't have in Germany speed limits. Ok in some areas it has changed but still you have the possibility to drive up to 300 km/hour. The max I have yet driven in the 3200 GT is 270 km/hr. The Audi stops at 250 even when you want to go faster but the Audi politic is to close up the motor at 250 km. Not so with the Maserati and that is very nice. Over all I am very happy with the 3200 GT which has much more space then a Porsche inside and very good styling. I prefer the twin Turbo because you feel more the power of the engine. Oh I can write a lot more but my english is too basic for all the translation. If you need more info please let me know and i will give the text to my secretary to translate it.