This Maserati A6G/2000 is one of only three short-wheelbase Frua Spiders built. Furthermore, it won best in its class at the 2017 The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering, and the 2019 La Jolla Concours d’Elegance. It also won Best Restoration at the 2006 Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este.
The car flew a bit under the radar until October 1997. A group of European car collectors were at a diner when their waitress, Dee Dee Yorba, told them she had a rare Italian automobile. Understandably skeptical, Yorba showed them the car in the family’s one-car garage. Her father had raced it and she and her sister inherited it. The collectors wanted to buy it, but Yorba’s sister resisted.
That story eventually made it to “Classic & Sports Car” magazine. The sisters eventually relented to the pressure to sell it, and the current owner, a Maserati collector, acquired it in 2000. The owner then sent it to Modena for a full restoration. While this example no longer has its original engine, it does have one that raced in the Mille Miglia.
Find this 1951 Maserati Spyder A6G/2000 Frua Spider for sale at Cool Classics International, with price available upon request.
