Maserati A6 1500

The Maserati A6 1500, officially the 1500 Gran Turismo, was Maserati's first production road car. The Maserati brothers began developing it in 1941, but wartime production halted the work and it was only completed after the war. The first chassis, bodied by Pinin Farina, debuted at the Geneva Salon International de l'Auto in March 1947 as a two-door, two-seat berlinetta with triple square portholes on its front wings and hidden headlamps, and the car went into low volume production, mostly with Pinin Farina coachwork. Later cars received a 2+2 fastback body, and Zagato built one coupe in 1949 with an extended greenhouse. Sixty-one were built between 1947 and 1950, when the A6G 2000 began to replace it. A 1,488 cc inline-six with a single overhead camshaft and a single Weber carburettor produced 65 hp.