Maserati BORA 4.9, 1973

Chassis No.: AM117/49

€91 000 | Sold

No reserve 1st production Maserati with a central rear engine One of the 250 examples equipped with the 4,9 l engine Futuristic lines signed Giugiaro Monegasque registration title Chassis n° AM117/49540 Engine n° AM117/11/49540 The Maserati Bora celebrated its 50th anniversary this year. Unveiled at the 1971 Geneva Motor Show, the Bora was the first production Maserati to be fitted with a mid-engined rear axle. It was also the first model from the Trident brand to be developed entirely under the direction of Citroën, which took over the brand in 1968. The development of this new GT was entrusted to the engineer Giulio Alfieri.

For the body design, he turned to Giorgetto Giugiaro, who had created his ItalDesign studio and had already worked brilliantly on the Maserati Ghibli. The result is a streamlined, futuristic silhouette that combines elegance and sportiness, with retractable headlights to optimize aerodynamic drag. The bodywork is manufactured in Modena by the Padane company and assembled on a tubular chassis with welded panels. The engine is the very strong and proven 4,719 cc aluminum 16-valve V8 from the Ghibli, derived from the engines used by Maserati in competition.

It features four overhead camshafts, a 5-bearing crankshaft, short-stroke pistons, a hemispherical cylinder head, and is fed by four Weber dualbody carburetors to deliver 310 hp. The five-speed ZF transaxle transmission allows the engine to reach 280 km/h. The major evolution of the Bora occurred in 1974 when the brand added a 4.9-liter V8 engine with 4,930 cc and 330 hp to its range. In total, 314 examples of the 4.7-liter Bora and 250 of the 4.9-liter version were produced by Maserati. Because of its links with Citroën, the Bora will also inherit some French technologies shared with the Citroën SM.

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These include hydraulic brake assistance, pedal adjustment, steering wheel adjustment, driver’s seat height adjustment and retractable headlight control. Its GT performance reinforced by a safe and efficient road handling made the Bora the most consistent GT of its time against the competition of the Ferrari 512 BB, De Tomaso Pantera and other Lamborghini Miura. The proposed example is one of the 250 produced with the 4.9 l engine. It was exported to California by the local importer of the brand in May 1973. We have no information on its owner(s) prior to April 20, 1982, when this Bora was acquired with 23,000 miles on the odometer by Massachusetts resident Curtis Nordgreeen.

It then changed ownership on June 1, 1989 (at 38,327 miles) and was sold a few months later, on December 8, 1989, at auction in Paris. The car will then be registered in Monaco, before joining the Anna Lisa collection.

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