This is the exceptional history of the Maserati race car with chassis number 3015 which was raced at many international race tracks by different privateer teams in the 1930s. Later sold to a Hungarian Count and survived undamaged the World War II as well as the Communist Era behind the iron curtain.
Under governmental control in the 1950s he rises up to the most successful race car in Hungary, spared from a planed modification to a two-seater sports car, and then to be stored for years in a weekend house. After a unsuccessful reactivation the Maserati 3015 is placed in a parlor for his owners personal display.
All the stories and anecdotes of his drivers, dazzling owners and teams, the great victories and the defeats have inspired the author to write this book about the very Maserati in correct historic settings.
Ecurie Braillard,Date of Delivery May 10, 1934 |
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The later Owners |
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August 1935 | 3015 sold to Robert Brunet |
February 1937 | 3015 sold to Count Maria Joseph Ernst (Ernö) Festetics de Tolna |
1938/1939 | 3015 sold to Sandor Wilheim |
1949 | Confiscated by the Hungarian State,
integrated into Racing Department “AFIT 4”, Driver Tibor Széles |
1960/1961 | 3015 sold to Lajos Szöcs |
1974 | 3015 sold to Janos Lippai, partially dismantled |
1983 | 3015 sold to Jenö Varga, Restoration,
rebuilt to Standard Supercharger, Removal of Head Rest |
January 2007 | 3015 sold to Kurt Hasler, Total Restoration to original 1937 configuration |