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The History of Maserati 200SI #2427 |
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| A special thank you to Maserati enthusiast Dr. Wolfi Zweifler for providing me with this history. | ||
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I am sending you the history of my new 200SI #2427 driven in period by Dan Gurney and John Fitch. It later spent over 30 years in a small museum in the United Kingdom. |
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 Maserati 200SI #2427 |
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 #2427 in the livery when driven by Archie Mears, who christened it the "Mighty Mouse" |
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 Reference: "MASERATI - A complete history from 1926 to the present" by Luigi Orsini and Franco Zagari |
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29th May 1957 - Car ordered by Maserati Corporation of America. Price 6.000USD |
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8th August 1957 - Notice of Shipping |
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8th August 1957 - Car completed according to the built sheet. Engine number #2427, numero interno #32. Body by Fantuzzi. |
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BUILD SHEET: Page One|
Car ordered by John Fitch, but paid by Vincent Andrus (Curator of the Metropolitan Museum) |
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| DATE | RACE | RACE # | DRIVER | RESULT | REFERENCE |
| 20-21/09/1957 | Watkins Glen Races Queen Catherine Cup |
#8 | John Fitch | 1st in Class 4th Overall |
JF website barcboys "Willem" "Birdcage“ (p. 63) "Sports Car NE“ (p. 257) |
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| DATE | RACE | RACE # | DRIVER | RESULT | REFERENCE |
| 28-29/09/1957 | Bridgehampton National Championship Races |
#8 | John Fitch | 1st in Class 5th Overall |
JF website "WSRP" Bridgehampton (p.165 with pic 168) Sports Car NE (p. 260) |
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John Fitch (Maserati 200SI) chasing Gus Andrey (Ferrari 500 Testa Rossa) at Bridgehampton as depicted by artist John Bishop on the cover of SCCA ( December 1961 ). |
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| DATE | RACE | RACE # | DRIVER | RESULT | REFERENCE |
| 06/12/1957 | Nassau Speed Week Governor's Trophy Preliminary 5 Lap Heat |
#12 | John Fitch | 1st in Class 2nd Overall |
JF website Bahamas (Pages 96, 109 and 111) SCI |
| 06/12/1957 | Nassau Speed Week Governor's Trophy 15 Lap Race |
#12 | John Fitch | DNF Lap 3 |
JF website Bahamas SCI |
| 08/12/1957 | Nassau Speed Week Memorial Trophy 20 Lap Main Race |
#12 | John Fitch | 1st in Class 3rd Overall |
JF website Bahamas SCI |
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7th March 1958 - Letter from Maserati Corporation of America to Officine Alfieri Maserati reporting about a burnt out intake valve in cylinder No 4. |
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| DATE | RACE | RACE # | DRIVER | RESULT | REFERENCE |
| 27/04/1958 | Lime Rock Park | #8 | John Fitch | 2nd in Class 2nd Overall |
JF website Sports Cars NE (Pages 266 and 296) |
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| DATE | RACE | RACE # | DRIVER | RESULT | REFERENCE |
| 15/06/1958 | Lime Rock National Sports Car Races |
#8 | John Fitch | 1st in Class 4th Overall (Race 8) |
JF website SCCA Sports Cars NE (Pages 273 and 306) Comp Press (Vol. 1 No. 1) |
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2nd July 1958 - Letter from Maserati Corporation of America to Officine Alfieri Maserati inquiring about a 2.5-litre engine for John Fitch. |
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| DATE | RACE | RACE # | DRIVER | RESULT | REFERENCE |
| 05/07/1958 | Lime Rock National Championship Sports Car Races |
#8 | John Fitch | 1st in Class 3rd Overall (Race 7) |
JF website SCCA Fitch Sports Cars NE (Pages 277 and 309) Comp Press (Vol. 1 No. 2) |
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1-2-3 leaving a Ferrari TRC in the dust !! |
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28th September 1958 - Car advertised by Carroll Shelby Sports Cars Inc. in "MotoRacing" asking US $7,795.00. |
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1958 - Sold to John J. Packo, Florida. Repainted to "rosso corsa". |
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| DATE | RACE | RACE # | DRIVER | RESULT | REFERENCE |
| 07/03/1959 | Boca Raton | #2 | John J. Packo | 4th in Class (Race 1) | Vintage RCJ SCCA |
| 08/03/1959 | Boca Raton | #2 | John J. Packo | 3rd Overall (Race 2) | Vintage RCJ SCCA |
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June 1959 - Car advertised in SCCA Magazine. |
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Car loaned to Lucky Casner (a friend of J.J. Packo) and his Camoradi Team when the ordered "Birdcages" did not materialize. |
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| DATE | RACE | RACE # | DRIVER | RESULT | REFERENCE |
| 28/02/1960 | GP of Cuba | #15 | Dan Gurney | DNF | Willem American Racing (Page 173) Birdcage (Page 63) Cahier (Page 231) Rodriguez (Page 159) RSCC CC |
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June 1959 - Car advertised in SCCA Magazine. |
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 "Lined up before the start of the race, the #9 Maserati of Maurice Trintignant, the#15 Maserati 200SI of Dan Gurney and the Tipo 61 of Stirling Moss." |
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March 1960 - Advertised by J J Pack in SCCA magazine for US $5,500.00. |
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1960 - Sold to Archie Means, through Bill Rudd, who then christened it the "Mighty Mouse". |
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| DATE | RACE | RACE # | DRIVER | RESULT | REFERENCE |
| 03/04/1960 | Pensacola | #200 | Archie Means | 3rd in Class 9th Overall (Race 5) |
Herb Means SCCA |
| 16/04/1960 | Marlboro National Championship Sports Car Races |
#200 | Archie Means | 3rd in Class 6th Overall (Race 7) |
Herb Means SCCA |
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| DATE | RACE | RACE # | DRIVER | RESULT | REFERENCE |
| 14/05/1960 | Cumberland Preliminary Race |
#200 | Archie Means | 6th in Class | SCCA Walter Baumer John de Boer |
| 15/05/1960 | Cumberland Main Race 7 (40 Laps) |
#200 | Archie Means | 2nd in Class 6th Overall (Race 7) |
SCCA Walter Baumer John de Boer |
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| DATE | RACE | RACE # | DRIVER | RESULT | REFERENCE |
| 28/05/1960 | Lake Eerie Invitational Race Dunkirk, NY |
#200 | Archie Means | 1st Overall | Herb Means |
| 24/06/1960 | Watkins Glen | #200 | Archie Means | 7th in Class 14th Overall |
SCCA RSCC barcboys Herb Means |
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| DATE | RACE | RACE # | DRIVER | RESULT | REFERENCE |
| 10/07/1960 | Connellsville, PA | ? | Archie Means | 1st Overall | Comp Press (Vol 5 No 8) |
| 14/05/1961 | Cumberland | #200 | Archie Means | 3rd in Class | SCCA NRR CUMB |
 Official Programme and Entry List |
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1961 - Sold to Jack Brewer, New York. |
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| DATE | RACE | RACE # | DRIVER | RESULT | REFERENCE |
| 22/09/1961 | Watkins Glen, NY | #5 | Jack Brewer | DNF | Cliff Reuter SCCA |
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| DATE | RACE | RACE # | DRIVER | RESULT | REFERENCE |
| 13/05/1962 | Cumberland | #115 | Thomas A Brewer | DNF | WSRP CUMB |
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| DATE | RACE | RACE # | DRIVER | RESULT | REFERENCE |
| 30/06/1962 | Lime Rock | #5 | Jack Brewer | 16th in Class | SCCA WSRP |
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February 1963 - Car advertised by Brewer in "Road & Track" asking US $3,900.00 (Ref: RT p. 76) |
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? - Sold to Carl Bross (Ref: Fisken) |
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? - Sold to Sir Joseph Bamford (Ref: Fisken) |
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3rd July 1978 - Sold to Raymond Fielding, Scotland. |
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 Maserati. A complete history from 1926 to the present by Luigi Orsini/Franco Zagari - Page 641 |
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Raced by Fielding in hillclimbs and sprints. |
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| REFERENCES: | |
| "SCCA" |
SCCA Magazine |
| "R & T" |
Road & Track Magazine |
| "SCI" |
Sports Cars Illustrated |
| "Bridgehampton" |
Bridgehampton Racing: From The Streets To The Bridge by Joel Finn, 2004 |
| "Bahamas" |
The Bahamas Speed Weeks by Terry O´Neil, 2006 |
| "Orsini/Zagari" |
Maserati. A complete history from 1926 to the present by Luigi Orsini and Franco Zagari, 1980 |
| "Birdcage" |
Maserati Tipo 60 and 61. The Magnificent Front-engined Birdcage by Willem Oosthoek and Michel Bollée, 2009 |
| "American Racing" |
AMERICAN RACING Road Racing in the 50s and 60s by Tom Burnside, 1996 |
| "Finn" |
Maserati: The Postwar Sportsracing Cars by Joel E. Finn, 1977 |
| "CC" |
Caribbean Capers by Joel E. Finn, 2010 |
| "Sports Car NE" |
Northeast American Sports Car Races 1950–1959 by Terry O´Neill, 2010 |
| "Fitch" |
Racing through Life: John Fitch - The Authorised Biography by John Fitch and James Grinnell, 1993 |
| "Rodriguez" |
The Brothers Rodriguez by Carlos Eduardo Jalife-Villalón, 2009 |
| "Cahier" |
F-Stops, Pit Stops, Laughter & Tears. Memoirs of An Automotive Photojournalist by Bernard Cahier, 2006 |
| "JF website" |
John Fitch´s website: www.Racesafety.com compiled by Lawrence W. Berman, Fitch Motorsport Historian |
| "barcboys" |
BARCBOYS.COM Dave Nicholas |
| "NRR" |
www.nationalroadrally.com Roy Des Ruisseaux |
| "CUMB" |
www.cbenatls.com SCCA Cumberland Archive |
| "Vintage RCJ" |
Vintage Racecar Journal |
| "RSCC" |
www.racingsportscars.com |
| "WRSP" |
World Sports Racing Prototypes |
| "Petelyons.com" |
www.petelyons.com |
| Ermanno Cozza |
Consulenza Storica Maserati |
| "Willem" |
Willem Oosthoek Author, automobile historian and Maserati expert |
| "JdB" |
John de Boer An automobile historian |
| "WB" |
Walter Baumer Author and automobile historian |
| "Herb Means" |
Herb Means Son of Archie Means |
| "Cliff Reuter" |
Cliff Reuter Etceterini.com |
| "Fisken" |
Gregor Fisken |
| "Ferrari Historians" |
A research group |
| "Comp Press" |
Competition Press |
| Picture by Peggy Gelder |
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| Pictures by Tom Burnside |
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| MAGAZINE ARTICLES: | ||
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Der Dreizack - February 2010 (Pages 14 and 15) |
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Het Automobiel - October 2010 (Pages 50 to 57) |
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The Art of Living - 2010 |
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Via Abetone - April 2010 |
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