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Maserati 300 drawings
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I'm looking for drawings or blueprints for the 1956,57 Maserati 300. I have the basic three view drawing you find on a Google search. I'm looking for the chassis drawings and a 3d model drawing for the body so I can lay out a buck. Thanks Bill
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Hi Bill,
What you've found is all that's probably available to the average person. With highly valuable classic cars like this, blue prints would be available to very few people and guarded as such. One of the reasons is the owners of such valuable cars don't want lots of clones running around de-valuing the rarity of the originals. Making a lookalike is easier, use your own chassis design, running gear and mechanicals, trying to make a toolroom copy would cost a fortune and a lifetime to achieve. Just my opinion, good luck on this ambitious project
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Hi,
Thanks for the response. I have ordered a coffee table book on the 300 and located an original car. I will keep you up to date on how I proceed. Thanks, Bill
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Maybe
I did a quick search and found this https://www.google.com/search?q=mase...9GfeqMwiNjM%3A
It does give a lot of pictures but also a chassis, add this to your collection?
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Also thinking about 300S
Bill,
I have intentions of re-bodying my Cobra replica into a 300S/450S using aluminum. I must however finish my long running GTO project before embarking on this next journey. If I do the Maserati project, I guess I'll need to call it a 500S as it will have a 5.0L powerplant If you do build a 300, please post progress pictures. If you do find good drawings or measurements that you can share, please keep me in mind. I have the 300S coffee table book and that's my main info source so far.
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I have a hard time believing that replicas devalue the real thing. But I don't know the car business. Is that really true? There are tons of plastic cobras around but a real one still goes for big dollars. Also, building a replica is not a trivial exercise. I don't see a set of dwgs of a maserati resulting in hundreds of replicas springing up over night. Building a car, even out of fibreglass is a huge job. Or are high collectors a bunch of paranoid hoarders?
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A friend of mine owns one of the 48 pre-production Land-Rovers made in 1948. When he went to licence it it appeared that it was already licenced and living in the UK! Fortunately he had the original bill-of-sale and the licence papers from Argentina and could therefore prove that the other car was a fake.
When I make re-production castings for old cars, I always make them slightly different to original, so that they can't be passed-off as original parts by unscrupulous people. |
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I'm reading this and similar threads on replicas and their merit and place in the world. I have come upon a question in which I am looking for your opinions. For my next build of a 50's sportscar replica I am debating whether to use a modern donor car chassis running gear and insure and title it as that modern car (think BMW Z3), although it will look vintage 50's. The other option is to purchase a 4 door year/make rusted car with papers that's in the era of my 50's sportscar. Problem is, as these old cars are so far rusted there wouldn't be much of the original car left when I'm finished. This brings up my dilemma: I ask myself at what point is the car no longer 'the car' on the paper title? Am I looking at this wrong? Because in the resto you've gone though and replaced so much of it (metal) to end up with a car titled as a 1958 Whatever. In my case I would eliminate the 2 rear doors to make it a coupe. My concerns come from growing up in the American Muscle Car era, in which to feed a growing market a lot of illegitimate cars were built. I've seen builders on this forum and others do amazing work cutting and converting 4 door sedans into roadsters. My intent is to drive this car for pleasure. Sorry if this is a bit of rambling on my part, I value the opinions here and look forward to hearing back from fellow members. -Vince
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They have a vector drawing here, if thats any help.
https://www.the-blueprints.com/bluep...cars/maserati/
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