By Pete Vack
Maserati 250F In Focus
By Anthony Pritchard
10 x10, 224 pages, 192 color and B&W photos
£60 UK, $95 USD, $105 CAN
Veloce Publishing Limited, UK, 2014
ISBN 978-1-845845-63-6
Order from www.veloce.co.uk
Review by Pete Vack
Anthony Pritchard’s name should ring a bell with most Maserati enthusiasts for he authored the first comprehensive history of Maserati, published in 1976. Comparable to the Merritt/Fitzgerald Ferrari in 1968 and the 1964 Hull/Slater Alfa Romeo, Maserati: A History, was a watershed work and most remarkably, still a valuable resource over 38 years later.
Along with Denis Jenkinson’s early work on the history of the 250F chassis numbers, first seen in The Maserati 250F: A Classic Grand Prix Car in 1975, Pritchard was one of the first to list all the 250F chassis numbers, something Ferrari historians were also attempting to do with the Maranello marque. Both Jenkinson and Pritchard, however, were often led astray by the factory’s use and re-use of chassis numbers. As time went by and more research revealed new facts about the cars, the old histories needed updating. Among the most recent to try to correct dated S/N information were David McKinney and Barry Hobkirk (McKinney published with The Maserati 250F in 2003). [Read more…] about Maserati 250F In Focus