Engineering:Bandini-Maserati 1500

The Bandini-Maserati 1500 is a racing car, produced in 1953 by Bandini Automobili.

In the 1950s, non-exclusive trade agreements between Ilario Bandini and Italian-American Tony Pompeo, provided for the export of cars with no engine to be installed in a second manufacturing process in the United States]. More and more cars like the sport siluro were exported, containing Siata, Offenhauser, Saab, MG and Alfa Romeo engines.

In particular this car, which results from the registers Bandini, have been exported on February 15, 1954, was designed and built in 1952 to house the Maserati A6 1,500 cc (92 cu in) engine and run in the category FM League SCCA (Sports Car Club of America). The chronicles record its use by the American drivers Bernhard Vihl, George Parrington and David Michaels and it also raced in the 12 Hours of Sebring in March 1955.

The profile of Bandini-Maserati.

The chassis

The chassis during the recent restoration.

The cockpit of the Bandini-Maserati 1500.

The chassis, built at Bandini cars, used design, structure and types of material that had ensured in the sporttorpedo good results in terms of lightness, road holding and speed.

• Structure and material: frame of elliptical section tubes, special steel aeronautics derivation;
• Suspension:
  • Front: Independent, triangles overlapping with shock hydraulic telescopic tilted and springs cylindrical helical coaxial; bar Account
  • Rear: a bridge with two rigid leaf spring semi-ellipticle longitudinal and hydraulic telescopic
• Braking system:
  • Service: hydraulics, drum front and rear
• Steering: a worm wheel and twisted
• Wheels: Borrani Ray
• Fuel tank: 50 litres (13 US gal; 11 imp gal)
• Transmission: transmission shaft rea central differential and halfshafts
• Weight overall version: n.d.

The engine Maserati A6

The engine Maserati A6

• Positioning: forward longitudinal, 6-cylinder in-line
• Materials and particularity: base and cup and cylinder head alloy, single camshaft, 12-valve V-71.5 ° head
• Bore: 66 mm (2.6 in)
• Stroke: 72.5 mm (2.9 in)
• Displacement unit: 248.03 cc
• Displacement total: 1488.2 cc
• Power: 3 twin-choke Weber carburetors
• Compression ratio: 7.8:1
• Power: 75 CV @ 4700 rpm
• Lubricate: Forced
• Cooling: forced cooler
• Gearbox and clutch: 4-speed manual + reverse, single dry disc
• Ignition and electrical equipment: coil and distributor on base, battery 12 volt and generator

The body

The body was made entirely of aluminum by the bodyshop Motto Committee by the Ilario Bandini. It is of two-seater sports configuration.

The dimensions are very similar to the First Bandini of 1946; as the air-intake and windshield recall those of 1100 sports, but the front grid for vertical and horizontal elements, although it is larger, has a shape that binds inextricably to torpedo sports. The front side plates and the tail, however, free of material roundness, shall inspired ideas that found practical application five years later with the Saponetta.

See also

• Ilario Bandini
• Bandini Cars