Maybach Special

I have a confession to make. Having just gone through some old files, I find that I have the wheelbase for Maybach 1! It's the track which has never been discovered.
And at 102 inches, it's a good bit longer than Maybach 11's 94 inches.This information was published in what I think was a Floyd Clymer book which I don't have--just a page from it. It shows a front elevation which I've drawn to accurate proportions, and describes the front end which was obviously completely redesigned at a later date, along with a restyled nose with wider grille.


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Wasn't there a music bloke called Back?

Malcolm Preston in his book MAYBACH TO HOLDEN states that the track was 60 inches both front and back. Get down to REPCO and buy a copy.

Here's a picture... can you scale that?

That's a heck of a track but it WAS wide. A mighty big car. It's odd that no contemporary reviews that I've seen ever gave the track/s. Looking at pics, I would have guessed that the rear track was a bit less than the front.

There is a lot of ongoing interest amongst Australian enthusiasts in the Charlie Dean/Repco Research built Maybachs 1-3, and the Ern Seeliger modified Maybach 3, which became Maybach 4 Chev.

There was/is no shortage of confusion about the specifications of, and the ongoing evolution of the three chassis so 'I went back to source', or at least an article contained in the Australian Motor Sports Annual 1958-59, probably written by John Goode, which summarised the cars 'in the day'. It's the best such piece on Maybach I've seen.

Intellectual property theft is amazingly easy these days. Columns of text are easily turned into word documents if you know what iPhone buttons to push, the effort involved wasn't that great. I have of course credited my sources appropriately. The photo selections are all mine, and represent the best shots of the cars I have accumulated along the way.

Let's state the obvious, coz if I don't, the next poster will; to the extent there are errors in Mr Goode's work I've repeated them.

Maybach 1: https://primotipo.co...specifications/

Maybachs 2-4: https://primotipo.co...-by-john-goode/

Edited by MarkBisset, 01 April 2024 - 05:29.

Mark, in your front-on shot with everyone 'working' on the car...

You say that the shocks are 'unsighted' while in fact they are almost totally in vision. They are the arms and the bases to which they attach.

Mark, in your front-on shot with everyone 'working' on the car...

 

You say that the shocks are 'unsighted' while in fact they are almost totally in vision. They are the arms and the bases to which they attach.

Youth of today, only understand telescopic shocks.