{"id":3582,"date":"2018-10-18T07:30:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T05:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.internationalclassic.com\/?p=3582\/"},"modified":"2019-05-08T10:23:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T08:23:07","slug":"rossellini-maserati-6cm-in-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/en\/rossellini-maserati-6cm-in-pennsylvania\/","title":{"rendered":"Rossellini’s Maserati 6CM landed in Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Guerino Bertocchi took about a year to completely rebuild our Maserati 6CM<\/a>. He sent dad a letter telling him that he had tested it with a temporary plate on the Modena-Bologna highway and had achieved 135 MPH. I am sure this made a great sight, a GP car tearing in and out of traffic on a public highway. Italy was wonderful in those days!<\/p>\n

The finished car was shipped in a wooden crate to Radnor Pennsylvania, our home.
\nFrom the time dad had said yes to the purchase of the Maserati 6CM, I was constantly pressuring him to make him promise me that I could drive it. He kept saying yes, but I had my doubts. When the car was unloaded from the crate It was obvious that it needed a good clean and some bodywork.<\/p>\n

Bertocchi had only rebuilt the mechanics of the Maserati 6CM and left the cosmetics for us to do. All the metal parts like the suspension and torsion bars were originally polished steel. They were now tarnished and slightly rusted from the sea voyage in the crate. These were days before sea containers. This was to be my job, re-polishing all the steel parts. This took a month of my time after school and many rolls of emery cloth. The bodywork was freshened by the head body man from Derham Bodyworks in Rosemont a company who built beautiful bodies to order on chassis like Packard and Dusenberg in the prewar years.<\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”WE ALL HAVE A STORY, TELL US YOURS!” style=”outline-custom” outline_custom_color=”#990000″ outline_custom_hover_background=”#fce523″ outline_custom_hover_text=”#000000″ shape=”square” size=”lg” align=”center” button_block=”true” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost:10372%2Fracconta-la-tua-storia%2F||target:%20_blank|”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]He would come on Saturdays with his bag of body tools. I was fascinated to watch this artisan reform the damaged nose and tail to original shape with hammers and dollies. After about 3 months he had completely attended to all of the body panels and the car was ready to paint\u2026red of course!!<\/p>\n

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