This Week @ Coys: Raquel Welch in Yellow

By Gunnar Heinrich | IMG Coys

MASERATI’S famous Ghibli has an uncanny effect on men living in their fifth or sixth decade.

It’s easy to predict that when one of these classic, 4.7 liter, V8 powered, Trident-badged exotics from the late 60s rumbles by, these guys get heart palpitations like they’d just flashed on seeing Raquel Welch naked for the first time – and – did you see that? She winked at them!

As for me, my Ghibli is the Ferrari F355 from the mid-to-late 90s.  I get the tingle that they must get every time I see one of Maranello’s go-karts in yellow or red or black or hell, pretty much any color, they’re all beautiful.

Well, actually, I’d have a hard time with purple.

Which brings me to this greenish-yellow on black 1972 Maserati Ghibli available at British classic auto house Coys.

All those sensual Guigaro lines are still there forming what is a remarkably sexy profile. That great MaserV8 might even still get this Ghibli to 174 mph on the right road or track.

But that color…

I suppose the sacrilegious thing to do would be to buy the car then refinish it in something like jet black or 70′s brown. But that would screw with the car’s history and heaven knows you couldn’t touch that lest a covert team from Maserati Club International come in the night and daringly rescue your ill-fated original from desecration.

But then again, perhaps there is some guy out there in his 60s that doesn’t mind the color of mustard mixed with mashed peas on his Italian exotic. To him, his Raquel Welch is still sexy, even if she looks a little seasick.

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