1961 Maserati Tipo 63

This car took part in a Shell Historic Ferrari Maserati Challenge race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1999, and is here seen leaving the pit lane during a morning qualifying session.

It's Belgian Edmond Pery's 1961 Maserati Tipo 63 and has a rear mounted 3 litre V12 engine. The history of the car is confusing (as with many Maseratis) but appears to have been reconstructed by Edmond Pery from chassis 63002 LWB which was originally one of the two Tipo 63s acquired by American Briggs Cunningham.

Maserati Birdcage

I took this photograph at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in 1996 of these three Maseratis that are generally referred to as 'birdcage' cars because of the intricate tubing that makes up the chassis of the car.

On the left, car number 37 is the 1960 Maserati T61 of Tony Smith which has a 4-cylinder inline 2,890cc engine and is chassis 2470. Next to it car 38 is a similar 1959 T61 of Valentine Lindsay which was driven in the race by Stirling Moss and is chassis 2453. The programme of the event shows car 39 to be the identical T61 of Nick Mason, but the car pictured is actually the 1961 Maserati T63 of Edmond Pery, chassis 63002 and apparently has a 3 litre V12 engine. The red car behind the T63 is the 1930/31 Maserati T26 of Anthony Hartley which is chassis 2518 and has an 8-cylinder inline 2½ litre engine.