A patina icon goes under the hammer again
Only four Maserati A6G/54 coupés were fitted by Pietro Frua, chassis 2140 is probably the best known. It was on display at the Maserati stand at the Paris Motor Show in 1956 and "disappeared" into Roger Baillon's collection in 1959.
In February 2015, the car was sold as part of Artcurial's unforgettable Scheuenfund auction in Paris. The estimate at the time was EUR 800,000 to 1.2 million. The highest bid was EUR 1.72 million and the sale price was listed at EUR 2.056 million.
Since then, the car has been driven and also shown, including at the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este in May 2017. It has retained its enormous patina and still presents itself today almost as it did at the end of 2014 when it first reappeared.
Now the coupé is to find a new owner once again and apparently the monetary demands have not diminished since then. Gooding & Co values the Maserati at USD 2.5 to 3.25 million, which is the equivalent of EUR 2.062 to 2.681 million.
Of course, a car like this only exists once in this condition, so it will be all the more interesting to see whether bidders in Pebble Beach in August 2021 are prepared to pay even more for the A6G/54 Frua than they did in Paris a good six years ago.
