A rare 1954 Maserati A6GCS, one of just 52 built, will be offered at Broad Arrow Auctions’ The Quail Auction during Monterey Car Week, with an estimated hammer price of $2.4 million to $2.9 million. The car, chassis 2078 and the 25th A6GCS produced, was originally retained by Maserati and used as a factory entry in the 1954 racing season.
Italian racer Luigi Musso drove it to category victories in the Giro di Calabria, the Circuito di Senigallia and the RAC Tourist Trophy in Northern Ireland. In 1955 it was sold to Argentina, where it continued racing and finished third overall while also winning its class in the Buenos Aires 1,000 Kilometers.
The A6GCS was built as a pure competition machine, with a low open aluminum body, sculpted lines by Fantuzzi, hand-built coachwork by Fiandri & Malagoli, a steel tube chassis, a 2.0-liter inline six, three Weber carburetors and a four-speed manual gearbox. After years in Argentina, the car returned to Italy in 1984, was restored, and later became a regular in historic and collector events.
Over the past three decades, it has appeared at Mille Miglia Storica, Monterey Historics and the Colorado Grand, and won the Gran Turismo Trophy at Pebble Beach in 2014. The sale also includes its original engine stamped 2078, two additional engines on stands, and research documentation from leading Maserati experts. Broad Arrow’s estimate is lower than when RM Sotheby’s offered the car in 2019 at $3.25 million to $3.75 million, but it failed to sell then. Collectors will now see whether the market will pay top dollar for a race car with a documented competition history.
