Hansel. So hot right now. Hansel.

Montreal = Alfa Romeo

Let's honour two young and outstandingly talented car designers:Giorgio Giugiaro and Marcello Gandini who penned so many awesome unforgettable cars.

​@@MassimoLodiRizzini Exactly. The Montreal was an Alfa Romeo, not a Maserati.

Ray Boccino so it needs to avoid France in the late 18th century, and America in in the late 18th century, and Russia in the early 20th century and Romania in the late 20th century. That's just 4 revolutions. It needs to avoid a further 3996 revolutions within 1500 km.

@@RB747domme If you are not sarcastic.. He was talking about : rpm.. not public, political, human fights & scandals ! ;0)

@@poplaurentiu4148 yep en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_per_minute

@@poplaurentiu4148 He wasn't sarcastic, he was dead serious.

These older Italian cars have a period of initial usage with a special abrasive oil in the engine. The engine wears to its perfect tolerances in the first 1500 km at a maximum 4000 rev/min. The burrs on the piston rings remaining from the manufacture process are eliminated, and all the mechanical parts adapt to each other. Then the abrasive oil containing burrs is replaced by normal oil in the servce. Today for example, Fiat Aegea cars have a similar rodaggio period but they dont use a rodaggio oil anymore. If the rodaggio period is obeyed, the engine lasts longer.

All Italian designs are so good. Even the humble VW Golf mk I looks good, designed by Italian.

Proportioned?

@@atticusrussell1225 Thank You!

Yep seen and agreed . I find him and his program soothing and relaxing unlike the annoying top gear program where its all about speed and horse power and some unwanted comedy. This is old school . If you have money to spare and live near by some where then this is the guy you wanna see to buy a car from.

David Clowsley that's one of the loveliest comments I have read on on here. I completely agree with you. The times that I have stood caressing a Jaguar E-Type and running my hand from the very front of the hood down the side of the car feeling every nuance in shape and curve just as the designer imagined. Same with the Lamborghini Miura. I love just staring at the beauty and form of these thoroughbreds and gorgeous cars. Very well said sir.

....or, & also Agip oil preferred to be "run in car" "1500kms & 4000rpm". ????? Just a guess?!!!

@@chrispompanoRemember, AGIP is the Italian state national oil company, Maserati was partly state owned.... Italians wouldn't use anything else that Italian made stuff unless they had to because they didn't make it themselves. Very protectionist, but I'd say that Italian engineering is some of the most elegant in the entire world and still is. The sticker says "Do not exceed 4000 rpm for the first 1500 km", which by the way accounts for 2/3 of max engine speed. There's not much to be had up top, so in all practicality 5500 is max revs, although you might push it further. I doubt the valvesprings where made to cope with high revs, it's a GT after all. I have seen them engine swapped for the newish 4691cc ~or 4,7 liter if you will V8 engine from the newer GranTurismo. I have seen that engine in al the classics; Khamsin, Indy, Bora and the achingly beautiful Ghibli (my favorites are the Ghibli and Bora.

Bruningable j

It's really ALL they had to do, turn that one piece of plexi into a solid piece of bodywork. Anyone who says the plexi acts as a rear window didn't watch the video. Hint: the rear window acts as a rear window.

As my late father used to say [expletive deleted] feds.

@@BillB23 I rarely have the restraint to censor this phrase when I use it. Sigh.

@@secondopinion6654 'Solid piece' of body-work was a term not so well known by those Italians who wanted to build a light, agile, fast & beautiful supercars.. ;0)

Stupid socialist laws made just to extort people and assert government control

Si in rodaggio di minimo 500 mila km😂

how could two serious car collectors like Jay and this fellow not know that....

jrfi orn it means adventure on the road, or for the road

I honestly find it extremely difficult to understand how two car enthusiastic like them are not able to know that simple thing !! Voiture en Rodage (in French)

Aldo, would you want to own a classic Maserati? It would be cool.

Ma nunn e' credere a sti' marmittoni stranieri!!! Le prendono da noi a 4 soldi e le vogliono passare come verginelle!! Maledetto stato italy,da noi se nin sei ricco sul serio non puoi coltivare queste passioni!!! Chist so' sul na' banda e incompetenti(vedi gia' dalla postura e come prende il cambio....da pecoraro🐩😁

@@ELPQF Put it down to general American helplessness with "foreign" languages. But agreed; the owner should know.

@@ianfindlay865 Google translate XD.

+Lhon Leal si

+Lhon Leal A lot of Italian high end cars use off the shelf items, including the Daytona

I bet J. Leno would love to have/own any of those cars even this specially un-restored one too ! ;)

@@poplaurentiu4148 what about you? You would like them too.

@@bradford_shaun_murray Sadly i'm not an car collector like Mr. Jay Leno really is.. but yeah i am passionate about cars too specially when such rare unique beauties occur..

Mexico or Ghibli too. 60’s and 70’s Masers are astonishing

My father owned a 1972 Indy, a real 4 seater with the same 4.9 liter engine less the anti-smog devices ! 165 mph.....

exactly, I own a 87 and love it! :-)

YEP

So, in my opinion, is the front end.

greg raines true

Siddharth verma Hmmm, a lot of parts bin parts were used amongst Alfa's, Ferrari's and Fiat's. The Lamborghini's rear lights are exactly the same on a Fiat 124AC.

Siddharth verma not sure but the taillights might be the same as on a Fiat 124 sedan usine!

"no "K"" says the Chemtrailfan and writes "khhhhhhumsin"… Decide , man - no "K" or yes "K"

And the French will still look down their noses at you even if you speak it perfectly.

Actually, it's SEE Troy ahn.

@@elroyfudbucker6806 Actually, if your accent is accurate, the French are impressed that you've made the effort to learn proper phonetics.

A brand of cheesy French Car-never seen in the states

Don't worry, you are not missing much. French cars are all garbage.

rbagel55 I was just poking holes in the pronunciation. I'm from the UK, they are quite common here.

John Tam Bugatti, French manufacturer, subsidary of Volkswagen AG. Let alone the Citroen DS. ;)

ckb313235 You say that, but Peugeot. Even 100 bugattis could not make up for Peugeot.

Paul Fabrique You're absolutely right, the 5.0l Fords carried on into the 90's and Chevy still follows their same basic design to this day. Making power and mpgs. All while starting daily and being driven right away, as opposed to European engines that had poor quality control, hp variances, poor mpgs and absolutely had to be babied to keep them alive... you're right the comparison is insulting. Why wouldn't a De Tomaso Pantera be a better choice than this car?

PGTMR2 Because the Pantera has a rough, heavy archaic, asthmatic push rod iron V8, which doesn't make much power per litre and isn't particularly efficient. This is why nearly all modern state of the art contemporary Engines follow the design philosophy of the Maserati V8, and not old ancient asthmatics American V8s. So when Maserati were pushing engineering boundaries, to compare their Efforts to a very basic, crass and simple American V8 is an insult, in my opinion.

A Pantera is a turd you can polish, you can make it better or leave it original. You can bring the engine almost up to modern times. No direct injection or cylinder deactivation though. Without using poetry can you explain a single boundary that was pushed by Maserati with this car. What was special about this engine? It seems to me a Ford 351could easily get the same job done. I've always seen Maserati as a cheap substitute for a Ferrari or Lamborghini. In other words, following their lead, not really inventing or innovating, copying. Alfa Romeo at least have their own style.

The engineering boundaries being pushed are figures like 520 hp out of 5657cc in the late 1950s out of Maserati Marine V8s. Maserati took quad overhead cams, with high revs and all alloy construction, with its light weight and put it on the road, in reliable form. Not to mention twin plugs in the 1954 450s. (400hp, 7500rpm, 4477cc). Maserati were looking at direct injection with twin plugs in 1954. Ferrari were conservative in their engineering compared to Maserati, both in chassis and powertrain. Look at the type 60 Birdcage. Ferrari was still using tube chassis....a 351 Windsor could not produce the same naturally aspirated power litre for litre as a Maserati V8 and weigh the same. Like all iron single cam push rod V8s, the Ford was archaic in the 60s. The reason they survive is because they are cheap. And nasty. De Tomaso only chose the American V8 for the Pantera because it was cheap and available. Nothing you can do to a pushrod V8 will "bring it up to modern times"... Whereas a quad cam alloy V8, like the Maserati, has plenty in common with a modern state of the art Audi or BMW V8. There is a reason you never see American cars in Europe. We think they are big, slow gas guzzling ugly barges. With ancient V8s!

You'd be wrong then.You can buy just about any American v8, made just about any way you want it in the aftermarket. The latest Corvette still has pushrods and cylinder deactivation, direct injection and all the modern goodies, makes plenty of power and still wins in fuel economy. So far as gas guzzling barges, we don't make those anymore. Europe does. I normally argue the other direction. I'd prefer a BMW M or AMG, or a Porsche anything over a Corvette. I prefer a 4 cam, 4 or 5 valve engine over 2 overhead valves. But this elitist crap about not even comparing the engines is rediculous. Have you listened to a Jaguar or AMG lately? They're emulating the sound of good old American v8s and people are loving it, same with all the prestige brands. Listen to a new Vette back to back with a Jaguar, AMG and a v8 Mustang. How would you know the value of your quad cam engine if it wasn't compared to other engines. Think about how bad cars would be wherever you live if Americans weren't pushing for pollution controls, safety features and general automotive tech.