BOOKS AND LITERATURE

MASERATI A6G 2000: BY PININFARINA, FRUA, VIGNALE AND ALLEMANO By Walter Bäumer Dalton Watson daltonwatson.com 847-945-0568 ISBN 9781854433145 $125 While today’s Maseratis feel like very exclusive, low-volume vehicles designed for and sold to the cognoscenti, they’re as common as Model Ts compared to the cars this Italian automaker produced in the 1950s. In that era, Maserati road cars were related to, and heavily influenced by, the company’s competition vehicles; they were hand assembled, cloaking race-developed mechanicals under coachbuilt bodies. The A6G 2000 series would carry Maserati through this postwar decade and include numerous masterpieces of individual design. Walter Bäumer is uniquely qualified to tell the history of the A6G 2000 cars, having for nearly 20 years been a full-time Maserati historian, consultant, and the founder of International Maserati Research (internationalmaseratiresearch.com). His latest book joins his…