£4.03m
The Ex-Bill Spear/Sherwood Johnston , 1955 Maserati 300S Sports-Racing Spider
Bonhams • UK • 12 Jul 2013
Market Position:
Rare Sale
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£4,033,500
The Ex-Bill Spear/Sherwood Johnston , 1955 Maserati 300S Sports-Racing Spider
UK • 12 Jul 2013
Vehicle Details
AI Listing Summary
This is a well-known and well-presented 1955 Maserati 300S Sports-Racing Spider, chassis number 3053, with a rich racing history, including a third-place finish at the 1955 Sebring 12-Hours race. The car comes with both a race-prepared engine and its original engine, along with a collection of spare parts, making it a highly desirable and versatile classic.
Condition
7
While the car is well-preserved and maintained, the description mentions minor bodywork modifications and the replacement of the gearbox cowl, along with a later modification fuel pressure gauge. However, the car retains many original components and has been meticulously maintained to avoid permanent alterations.
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Manual
LHD
United Kingdom
3053
1955
Auction
£4.03m
The Ex-Bill Spear/Sherwood Johnston , 1955 Maserati 300S Sports-Racing Spider
Bonhams • UK • 12 Jul 2013
Market Position:
Rare Sale
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Description
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.
Upon delivery in the USA, Maserati '3053' now offered here was co-driven by Bill Spear and Sherwood Johnston in the 1955 Sebring 12-Hours race, American road racing's round of the FIA Sports Car World Championship...
Spear and Johnson enjoyed a fine debut race with their brand-new Maserati, finishing third overall at the end of the 12-Hours race around Hendrick Field AFB, Florida, having comple...
Price Analysis vs Other 300 Ss
£441,500
Lowest Price (All Time)
£1,093,061
Median Price (All Time)
£4,033,500
Highest Price (All Time)
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101 New Bond Street, London, Greater London, W1S 1SR, England
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