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Maseratis at the Factory in Color, Circa 1963

September 8, 2020 By pete

And what have we here? The Maserati factory circa 1963 was full of surprises.

From the Archives, October, 2014


VeloceToday reader David Hewitt ads his impressions of his time in Europe in 1963, and a visit to Maserati. While trying to identify the cars in Hewitt’s photos, we stumbled across two rare and interesting cars once owned by John Simone, head of Maserati-France. But before we get that, David’s photos of the Nurburgring are equally fascinating and all in color!

Photos courtesy David Hewitt unless otherwise noted.

Text by Pete Vack and David Hewitt

David Hewitt’s father was an Air Force pilot stationed in Europe from 1960 to 1964. Hewitt was only 15 when his family lived in France for the first year and Germany for the remaining years. Hewitt recalls those years:

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