Too much "patina" for the beauty competition?
You may remember. In February 2015, a 1956 Maserati A6G/2000 with a coupé body by Pietro Frua was auctioned for EUR 1.72 million as part of the Baillon collection . The car was once exhibited at the Paris Motor Show in 1956 and had been in the Baillon Collection since 1959.
Now the elegant, but also rather heavily "patinated" coupé has reappeared at the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este as part of the Concours. We wrote about it in our review .
As appealing as a barn find is, one has to ask oneself whether such an object has any place in a modern beauty competition. After all, it is generally the quality of the restoration and the condition that is judged and not primarily the beauty and elegance of the creation.
Although there are now also so-called "Preservation" classes and prizes, even there attention is primarily paid to optimally preserved originality. The 56 Maserati, with its clearly weathered paintwork and traces of corrosion, is probably well above the threshold of what a jury member considers to be a well-preserved patina.
Accordingly, the car did not receive a prize in Cernobbio/Como. And it even stopped on the lap of honor around the house, so that the former Lamborghini test driver had to reach for a screwdriver to get the car back on the road.
But the question remains. Do barn finds like this Maserati belong at a Concours d'Elégance? If you have an opinion, simply comment on this short article.
