This is the 1972 Maserati Boomerang Coupe, chassis number 081, engine number 902 by @italdesign_official. The design was created by Italian car stylist Giorgetto Giugiaro, who would later be inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in the year 2002. While attending the Turin Art School, having been born into a family of artists, Giugiaro's imaginative and impressive design sketches were noticed by Dante Giacosa, Fiat's technical director at the time. Giorgetto was ultimately offered a job working in the company's design office in 1955. Seeking the ability to express his own ideas with more freedom, Giorgetto left Fiat in 1959 at the young age of just 21 years old to join forces with Italian industrial design company, @bertone_official, as head of their styling department and would later go on to produce hundreds of concepts with them. After around 6 years with Bertone, Giorgetto moved to Italian automobile design firm Carrozzeria Ghia SpA, but after only 2 years he'd go on to create his very own design studio alongside engineer Aldo Mantovani known initially as Studi Italiani Realizzazione Prototipi S.p.A. (later known as ItalDesign by February 1968). It was under that roof that the Maserati Boomerang came to life. The car was born as a non-functional epowood show-car during the 1971 Turin Motor Show, but by the time the 1972 Geneva Motor Show came around, the Boomerang was now based upon the chassis of a Maserati Bora. Unlike anything ever seen before, the Boomerang offered a steering wheel that rotated on a stationary binnacle around a divergently organized set of instruments and loads of glass exposure all throughout its the body. After being sold into private hands in 1974, the car was not to be seen often again until it’s re-discovery in 1980 when it was found and restored. In 2002, the car was given a mostly cosmetic restoration by Traction-Seabert & Co Ltd, and in 2003, the Boomerang became road-legal after 18 months of careful mechanical and electrical refurbishment.
How many made? 1
Engine: 4.7L (4,719cc) V8 310bhp
Debut:1971 Turin Motor Show
Top speed: n/a
0-60mph: n/a
Photo Credit: @lambolog
Research: @rarecarsonly