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Car Of The Day: January 21, 2010; Impy '64 Maserati Mistral
Topic Started: Jan 21 2010, 05:26 AM (656 Views)
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Today's car of the day is Impy Lone Star Flyers' 1964 Maserati Mistral.

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The Maserati Mistral (Tipo 109), named after a cold northerly wind of southern France, was the successor to the iconic 3500 GT, it was also the first in a series of classic Maseratis to be given the name of a wind. It was offered both in Coupe and Spyder form. 830 coupes and 120 Spyders were built in total.


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For more information and pictures of the real car please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maserati_Mistral

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The Mistral will be familiar to many Redline collectors as a second year offering from Hot Wheels. But this Impy casting is a beauty with opening hood and doors compared to Hot Wheels' opening hood only. The Hot Wheels, however, is closer to 1/64 scale as this one is a tad on the large side (the Hot Wheels is also missing from my collection, unfortunately). I don't believe Kyosho covered this one when they did their Maserati series a few years ago. A true pity, but the way they keep coming back to Ferrari perhaps there is hope of seeing it yet! On a side note thise car is misseplled as "Mistrale" on the base.

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The Mistral is the last model from the "Casa del Tridente" or “House of the Trident” to have the famous straight six cylinder, twin-spark, double overhead cam engine, as fitted to the Maserati 250F Grand Prix cars that won 8 Grand Prix between 1954 and 1960 and one F1 World Championship in 1957 driven by Juan Manuel Fangio. The engine also featured hemispherical combustion chambers and was fed by a Lucas indirect fuel injection system which was novelty at the time for Italian car manufacturers. Although the Lucas fuel injection system enhances performance, quite a few owners, especially in the U.S. have converted their cars to Weber carburetors due to difficulties in tuning the system properly. Maserati subsequently moved on to V8 engines for their later production cars. There were three engine variants fitted to the Mistral; 3500, 3700 and 4,000 cc. The most sought after derivative is the 4000 cc model. Only the earliest of the Mistrals were equipped with the 3500 cc engine. Unusually, the body was offered in both aluminum and steel but no one is quite sure as to how many of each were built. Use of the aluminum body panels had no effect on the performance of the Mistral. The mixture of the aluminum body on a steel substructure can lead to corrosion due to the dissimilar metals. The automobile was standard with a five speed transmission from ZF and also had four wheel solid disc brakes. As was Maserati's practice at the time the front suspension was independent while the rear made do with a solid axle. Speed for the 3.7 liter engine and the 4.0 liter engine was around 7 seconds or a little better and the top speed was around 140 mph (225 km/h) to 145 mph (233 km/h).


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The body which had been designed by Pietro Frua was first shown in a preview at the Salone Internazionale dell'Automobile di Torino in November 1963. The Maserati Mistral is generally considered as one of the most beautiful Maserati of all time. It is also often confused to the very similar looking but larger and more powerful AC Frua, which was a Frua design as well.


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I don't often do this, but here's a bonus picture that came out too well not to use:

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bangerkid45
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Very nice choice! I need a flyers one day.... Nice car for it though. (Also, my 1,000th post!!! :D)
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Swifty
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Congrats on 1,000 posts! :thumbup:
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james_autos
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I'm suprised at how sloppy the quality of the paint finish is. And how embarrassing - they were still been made in the UK at the time. I have one in my resto box but the windows are cracked and the wheels are missing, so I may just buy another off ebay. They're cheap enough as they're not as desirable as other Lone Star castings such as the Ford Zodiac, Mercedes 220 and especially the Vauxhall Firenza.

One a side not Siku also did the Mistral in their V-Series, so it would have been around 1:60.
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JustDavid
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Opening features are a total bonus.
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ivantt
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New casting? Quick! Take it apart!
Definitely a casting that must be loved and appreciated by those who I would not immediately understand This is a polite way for me to say I agree with JAMES AUTOS. James traded me a few Lonestars, and they were a "bit" better than this one!

CONGRATS to BANGERKID 45, nice milestone...
Edited by ivantt, Jan 21 2010, 11:14 PM.
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Sak
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The tooling's not bad, but the paint's appalling.
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