Fred Puhn and his Maserati V8RI at Laguna Seca, 2014. Photo by Randy Reed.
Story by Fred Puhn
Read Part 1, The Fred Puhn Story
It was 1981 and we were selling old parts at the Big 3 swap meet in San Diego. A nice man came up to our booth and he said he had just moved in from Minnesota. Our chatting turned to stories about “I saw an old car in a barn better than anything you ever saw in a barn.” Naturally such stories are nice to listen to but everyone knows not to take anything too seriously. When my new friend said he found a prewar Maserati race car in a barn in Minnesota for $1000 that story topped anything I could ever bring up. He said the car had raced at Indy according to the owner, but he knew nothing else about it.