1961 OSCA 1600GT Coupe

Brothers Ernesto, Ettore and Bindo Maserati, the vagabonds of the exotic car world, had sold their family company in 1947 to the Orsi family. They then returned from Modena to their original manufacturing home in Bologna where they established the company first known as \"OSCA Maserati,\" and subsequently just as \"OSCA.\" Under this acronym-today so familiar to aficionados of fine Italian high-performance cars-they produced an initial series of small 1100cc sports racing cars, but speedily developed a big 4.5-liter Formula 1 V12 power unit that was intended to update existing Maserati 4CLT Grand Prix cars to compete in modern Formula 1 conditions. In 1952 they produced a Formula 2 single-seater racing car, driven by Louis Chiron and Eli Bayol, but it was their sports racing cars that truly excelled in every available capacity class from 750cc through 1100 to 1500 and 2-liter competition. Their greatest success came in 1954 when their Briggs...