• Delivered new in Italy • Matching-numbers engine • Desirable five-speed model • Professionally restored and maintained "The 3500 GT Maserati is a much-underrated motor car, being overshadowed by the prancing horse from up the road in Modena.

But it is not so long ago that the prancing horse was very much on the prongs of the Maserati trident in motor racing, and there is that lovely big six-cylinder engine under the bonnet to remind one of the glories of the 250F." - Edward Eves, Autocar, 3rd July 1976.

Despite numerous racetrack successes that included Juan Manuel Fangio's fifth World Championship - at the wheel of a 250F - and runner-up spot in the World Sports Car Championship with the fabulous 450S - both in 1957, the marque's most successful season - Maserati was by that time facing a bleak future.

Its parent company's financial difficulties forced a withdrawal from racing, and Maserati's survival strategy for the 1960s centred on establishing the company as a producer of roa...