"Greenhouse" looks familiar!

[Gary Knox]

I know I've never seen one of these on the streets/roads/museums, etc. This might be the first picture of the 1967 Maserati I've ever seen. But - the shape/appearance of the greenhouse really caught my attention. Also the 'vent' of the front fenders. Since this was designed in the early/mid '60's, did it have influence on the BMW design studio?

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[Ohmess]

I think it more likely that Vignale was influenced by the beautiful BMW 3200 CS Bertone (but of course, I am not completely impartial):

 

[day66]

The Maserati looks a lot of car for the money, though it could also be a lot of trouble?!

 

[Gary Knox]

I think it more likely that Vignale was influenced by the beautiful BMW 3200 CS Bertone (but of course, I am not completely impartial):

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Another beautiful greenhouse that I've never seen in person. Visibility from inside all these cars was wonderful. I guess 'rollover' protection for driver and passengers took precedence over beauty and 360 degrees of visibility.

Gary

 

[Dick Steinkamp]

Another beautiful greenhouse that I've never seen in person. Visibility from inside all these cars was wonderful. I guess 'rollover' protection for driver and passengers took precedence over beauty and 360 degrees of visibility.

Gary

I think it was Tom McCahill of Mechanics Illustrated that said cars like this had "all the roll over protection of a starched bed sheet."

 

[Ohmess]

Another beautiful greenhouse that I've never seen in person. Visibility from inside all these cars was wonderful. I guess 'rollover' protection for driver and passengers took precedence over beauty and 360 degrees of visibility.

Gary

I've only seen one 3200 CS - at the BMW CCA Foundation Museum in Greer as part of the 2020 Foundation Fest event. Dark blue with a tan interior. It was bigger than I thought it would be, and very, very pretty.

 

[Krzysztof]

One of these is under full restoration near by ... Some say there are more waiting around for bringing them life.

It seems someone were gathering them once they were ugly, rusty and abandoned in few Europe countries.

Now I'm recalling standing by one of such rusty and incomplete car many years ago.

I remember it wasn't a desirable model even for bimmer's fans...

Restoration is extremely difficult as there is nothing from body parts ... All need to be done from scratch or copied. So demanding task in comparison to E9.

 

[Stan]

I've only seen one 3200 CS - at the BMW CCA Foundation Museum in Greer as part of the 2020 Foundation Fest event. Dark blue with a tan interior. It was bigger than I thought it would be, and very, very pretty.

I might have seen the same one in Saratoga a few years back.
@adawil2002 , can you recall?

 

[adawil2002]

I might have seen the same one in Saratoga a few years back.
@adawil2002 , can you recall?

Yes, that was restored by The Werke Shop & owned by Kevin Whalen for years. In 2016 on the way to Monterey to be shown at Pebble Beach, the car broke loose in the transport & nearly totaled the car, every panel was damaged. Insurance paid for the subsequent restoration. Kevin has since sold the car & bought an excellent 850CSi.

 

[CSteve]

A classic example of less is more.

 

[bmw2800cs]

I'm told that Maseratis have all the beauty of an e9 and none of the reliability