'55 Maserati 300S ~ SOLD for almost $5MM (Bonhams)

  

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12 Jul 2013 14:30 BST Chichester,Goodwood
Collector's Motor Cars
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The Ex-Bill Spear/Sherwood Johnston
1955 Maserati 300S Sports-Racing Spider
Chassis no. 3053
Engine no. 3053 (see text)

Sold for £4,033,500 inc. premium

Footnotes

• No less a racing driver than Sir Stirling Moss has described the 3-litre 6-cylinder engined Maserati 300S as having been: "...one of my favourite front-engined sports Maseratis – one of the easiest, nicest, best-balanced sports-racing cars ever made...".
  
  Here we offer a particularly well-known, well-presented and fine-quality example of this intensely well-respected and much-coveted model. Maserati 300S chassis serial '3053' was the third sports-racing car of its type to be ordered by the great American entrant Briggs Swift Cunningham for the use of his old friend and team driver Bill Spear. 

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