There are a lot of beautiful things in ‘In the Wild’, but we really bow deeply to this car. A beautiful Maserati Ghibli from 1967. Even the Ferrari 599 next to it is suddenly no longer special.
When a Ferrari 599 is on public display, but the car next to it is photographed, you know it must be something very special. That is certainly the case. AutoWeek forum member D oh left the 599 behind to photograph a real 56-year-old Maserati Ghibli. A choice that we can of course live with, because what a picture it is! A masterpiece by the celebrated car designer Giorgetto Giugiaro, who was still employed by Ghia. He was not yet thirty years old when he put Ghibli to paper.
In terms of design, the Ghibli was an important prelude to various sports cars of the 1970s and even the 1980s, with its folding headlights located on top of the long nose and the roofline extending all the way to the rear. It was quite a step after the Maserati Mistal that it succeeded. The Ghibli looked elegant and fast. He had to achieve the latter with a big V8 in his nose. Initially a block with a 4.7 liter swept volume, followed by the Ghibli SS with a whopping 4.9 liter model. Good for 310 hp and 335 hp respectively. Even today that is still quite a bit of power, in the late 1960s that was really a lot. For comparison: a Jaguar E-type at that time produced just under 270 hp from its inline-six. With the ‘basic engine’, the 4.7, the Maserati Ghibli reached 250 km/h and sprinted to 100 km/h in 6.8 seconds. The Ghibli SS continued at speeds of up to 280 km/h. Of course they didn’t do that without taking a very long drink of gas. That is why there were no fewer than two 50 liter tanks, which could be filled on either side of the car.
Maserati Ghibli
The example we have here, thanks to D oh, is a regular Ghibli Coupé from the first year of manufacture, the SS only came on the market two years later. It is one of the first Ghiblis ever and that makes it just that little bit more special. The condition of the car in no way indicates that it is such an old car, because we are undoubtedly dealing with a car that has been meticulously restored and carefully protected. We cannot blame the owner for double parking in this case. The fact that the Ghibli is parked in public (albeit covered) is actually quite something. Here is a car that is worth more than €250,000. And let’s be honest; Such an amount is quite understandable in this case, right?
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl