#1401 (June 1962) and #1407 (June 1962) have disc brakes at the rear, but they came with wire wheels from the factory. #927 (May 1960) also came with wire wheels, but there are drum brakes at the rear. In all the original part manuals we have, there are no splined hubs available for cars with drums at the rear, and of course they differ from the ones with discs.

#505 (January 1960) and #678 (March 1960) are very early cars and they had disc brakes at the front. I have never seen a Spyder Vignale with drum brakes at the front.

There were many differences in the build of the Spyder Vignale during its years of production; starting with the body - different floor pan types, inner sills, outer sills, A-posts, B-posts and boots etc. This is because the chaps at Maserati or Vignale (who knows about that?) always had problems with the dynamic stiffness. Early cars also had a long bonnet and a lowered windscreen. A hardtop was also available as an option.

There are also variations in the interior, exterior (namely bumpers, mirrors or grabs etc.) and instruments (later cars had seven instruments) and so on and so on. At the moment we have nine Spyder Vignales in our workshop and there are always anomalies regarding the chassis numbers (early or late versions). One could write a book on this subject and if I ever get the time, I will do so.

You cannot say that these differences related solely to the Spyder Vignale. When the 3500 GT and the Sebring (1a serie) were built.....the same updates (in detail) were made on nearly all these cars; for example, the late Spyder Vignales had the same door locks as Sebring (1a serie).......

But out of all this.......the most interesting factor on all Spyder Vignales concerns the body numbers, as not only can we identify if the car was early or late via their chassis numbers, we also have the body numbers. However, yet gain we have found that #923 (June 1960) has body number 30 and #927 (May 1960) has body number 18, and so it goes on....."