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Back in 1979, a father picked up his wife and a little baby boy from the hospital in their almost-new Alfasud 1200.
Sure to say, that passion for what at the time were considered exotic cars in Norway left a mark on that child.
Fast-forward 25 years and the boy had turned into a student with no money and a love for classic Italian cars. And that’s a horrible combination, if I may say so.
However, what I lacked in finances I made up for in spare time. And, in what turned out to be a very fortunate coincidence, I became friends with a lawyer who shared my enthusiasm for classics.
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His ‘problem’, however, was not a lack of finances but a lack of time to use the cars in his collection. We had a match…
That’s how it came to be that a young, poor and opportunistic student became the caretaker of a 1971 Maserati Indy 4700 and a 1968 Maserati Mistral 4000.
During the following years I drove the two cars to shows and meetings, and fell more and more in love with the Mistral.
The looks, the howl of the straight-six over 3500rpm, the feeling of being an Italian version of James Bond… It all appealed to me.