SURVIVOR: SAUDI ARABIA
We’ve all heard of ‘barn finds’, but how about a ‘desert find’? Just such a car, wearing the patina of decades spent in the sands of Saudi Arabia, resurfaced last year and went to auction at RM Sothebys’ Monterey sale.
The car in question is a 1961 Maserati 5000 GT; a model that had been born two years earlier.
SHAH’S SPECIAL
In 1958, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi test drove a 3500 GT, and while he liked the car, he wanted more power. ‘Mohammad who?’ you ask. You may know him better as the Shah of Iran, the dynastic ruler who was ousted in 1979 after an Islamic Revolution, that had been brewing for years, finally
