Bandini-Maserati 1500


The Bandini-Maserati 1500 is a racing car, produced in 1953 by Bandini Automobili.
In the 1950s, non-exclusive trade agreements between Ilario Bandini and Italian-American Tony Pompeo, provided for the export of cars with no engine to be installed in a second manufacturing process in the United States].
More and more cars like the sport siluro were exported, containing Siata, Offenhauser, Saab, MG and Alfa Romeo engines.
In particular this car, which results from the registers Bandini, have been exported on February 15, 1954, was designed and built in 1952 to house the Maserati A6 engine and run in the category FM League SCCA. The chronicles record its use by the American drivers Bernhard Vihl, George Parrington and David Michaels and it also raced in the 12 Hours of Sebring in March 1955.

The chassis

The chassis, built at Bandini cars, used design, structure and types of material that had ensured in the sporttorpedo good results in terms of lightness, road holding and speed.

The engine Maserati A6

The body was made entirely of aluminum by the bodyshop Motto Committee by the Ilario Bandini. It is of two-seater sports configuration.
The dimensions are very similar to the First Bandini of 1946; as the air-intake and windshield recall those of 1100 sports, but the front grid for vertical and horizontal elements, although it is larger, has a shape that binds inextricably to torpedo sports. The front side plates and the tail, however, free of material roundness, shall inspired ideas that found practical application five years later with the Saponetta.