The good, the bad and the Indy

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The Maserati Indy was the first exotic car your editor ever set foot in. The local Alfa-Romeo specialist had one, and it was our job to sweep the floors, sort nuts and bolts and wash a car every now and then and there. When we’d given the red Indy a clean-up the boss found that the time was ripe for a little spin ‘to dry her up’. “Did you know the white surfaces on the roads are much more fun than the rest of the tarmac?”, he asked after we’d taken place in the black leather of his car. As a 10-year old boy we didn’t know that. But he was to demonstrate it immediately after by pushing the pedal to the metal on the next stretch of white painted on the road in order to direct the traffic in its legitimate lane. It was also the first time I heard those wide balloon tyres cry out as loud.

Enough for the memory. I have been playing with the idea to buy an Indy at one stage, but of course never did so. It’d have to be a blue or green one. Or how about Arancia – a striking and ever so period golden yellow? Well… there are two of them seen for sale at the time. Both are 4.7s which come in that cool yellow, but they couldn’t be more apart. First is a full restoration project, almost local to us and priced at 34,000 Euros. The other one is believed to have covered just 18,437 miles from new, looks like it and comes with full history from when it was new. It raises the question what the first would cost to turn it into a car like the latter one. Which is the one to go for..?

(Words editor, pictures advertisements PostWarClassic)

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