a favorite from the 'golden age'.....

[John Z. Goriup]

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When folks talk about the golden age of motorsports, which I submit are most likely the same folks who think that magic era covers the mid and late '60s, the conversation usually ends with general agreement that it was Ferrari with their GTOs and LMs who represented the pinnacle of motorsports development.

Yet, few people seem to know about or acknowledge the sensational cars Maserati fielded during that time, which sadly is also the period during which the legendary firm finally was forced to declare insolvency.

I had seen a Tipo 151 set the top speed record at LeMans back in the day, but thereafter lost contact with these cars until I was fortunate to see the sole surviving Tipo 151 at the Laguna Seca Motorsports Reunion a couple of years back, being driven by Phil Hill's son, Derek.

Big, brutish and fast, but possessed by the reliability gremlins which were so much a part of Maserati's later history, each one of the three Tipo 151s which were ever produced led every race in which they were entered & started at one time or another...... only to succumb to mechanical breakdown and fail to finish so frequently.

JZG

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[stuny]

Lovely. Like an enclosed Birdcage, another beauty of the era.