MASERATI A6G 2000 ZAGATO

MASERATI A6G 2000 ZAGATO - Part Number: REF-173

Maserati A6G 2000 Zagato

ISBN# 978-1-85443-249-0
Publication Date: January 2013
Page Size: 290mm x 295mm
Page Count: 288
Hard cover with dust jacket and slipcase.
Illustrations: 337 Black & white and color photographs.

This is the first book devoted exclusively to the Maserati A6G 2000 model with coachwork by Zagato one of the most beautiful GT cars ever built. The cars were strong and successful contenders in the 2-liter class and were actively raced in the Italian GT championship in the second half of the 1950s winning their class in 1956 and 1959. The cars also participated in legendary races like the Mille Miglia Targa Florio and Giro di Sicilia. This history of the twenty-one cars made by Officine Maserati S.p.A. in Modena and bodied by Carrozzeria Zagato in Milan is listed chassis by chassis and profusely illustrated with period photographs and documents many only recently uncovered.

The author Walter Baumer was born in 1954 into a family of car enthusiasts. His uncle also named Walter was a Mercedes Grand Prix driver and the winner with Huschke von Hanstein of the 1940 Mille Migia and his father Werner acted as Walter's manager. After high school Walter studied photography and for many years worked as a fashion photographer and freelance art director for well-known companies in the fashion and cosmetic industries and magazines such as Esquire Lucca Bogue Style and Playboy. Since 2003 he has worked full time as a Maserati historian and consultant. This is Walter's second book his first being the definitive work on the Maserati 300S also published by Dalton Watson Fine Books. Walter lives in Dusseldorf Germany.