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The Maserati Birdcage racing cars designed by Giulio Alfieri in the late 1950s and early 1960s represent a revolution in sports car design.
sports car manufacturers were geared towards innovative but expensive monohull structures as opposed to traditional ladder chbadis. Alfieri, who had limited funds since Maserati was still recovering from a difficult economic situation, had to come up with something really innovative to compete.
The result was a complex tubular chbadis formed of about 200 thin tubes welded together, collected cars the nickname Birdcage. Such a design gave an extremely lightweight chbadis that offered exceptional torsional stiffness.
The first was the 1959 Tipo 60, which featured a 2.0-liter 2.0-liter inline engine. Then, at the suggestion of the legendary British racing driver Stirling Moss, a powerful 250 hp, 2.9-liter inline-4 was added the same year, giving rise to the Tipo 61. Only 17 Tipo 61s were built, of which a 60/61 Tipo conversion.
At a Coys auction that will take place at the Schloss Dyck Clbadic Days event in Germany next month, a Maserati Birdcage will go under the hammer. This is a very authentic replica of the chbadis bearing the number 2459 of Tipo 61 which was destroyed in 1962 during an accident at Daytona, but rather than a replica version under the hammer is considered a "reconstruction" since it was rebuilt parts of the original cars Tipo 60 and Tipo 61, hence its clbadification Tipo 60/61
There is a detailed documentation of the parts of 39, origin present in the car. These are primarily engine parts, including an original cylinder head, a sump and a sump, cam cams, and a transaxle tower (also called a differential case) that includes the casting number . And because of the quality of the work done on the car, especially with regard to the original construction methods, the car has permission from the FIA to participate in the historic races.
The Schloss Dyck Clbadic Days will take place from August 3rd to 5th.
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