Legacy Metrics

1974 Maserati Bora 4.7

AM117 223roadItaly
Engine
4.7L engine
Colour
'Rosso Fuoco' (red) over white leather

Chassis AM117 223 is a right-hand-drive 1974 Maserati Bora 4.7, one of only 42 built to that specification from a total production run of 289 examples. Factory-completed on 1 July 1974 and dispatched to Slough, it was originally finished in Bleu Ischia with a Bianco leather interior and specified with optional air conditioning, a rear-view mirror, and radio predisposition. Following an extensive two-year restoration completed in 2011, the car now wears a Rosso Fuoco finish over the original Bianco leather.

Ownership

  1. Auction sale
    Sold £126,500 (≈ $158K)

    RM Sotheby's catalogue lot →

  2. 1974-07-01 →Factory delivery
    Initial Slough delivery recipient
    partial documentation

    Car was completed and dispatched to Slough on 1 July 1974; a purchase invoice survives detailing the original specification including optional mirror, air conditioning, and radio predisposition in Bleu Ischia with Bianco leather.

Competition

No competition history extracted from the catalogue.

Maintenance & restoration

  1. 2011Restoration
    McGrath Maserati

    A comprehensive two-year restoration was carried out, resulting in a repaint to Rosso Fuoco while retaining the Bianco leather interior; work was deemed to have brought the car to an impeccable standard.

    Restoration spanned approximately two years prior to completion in 2011.

Are you the owner of this car?

This car's public record is built from its auction and competition history. Register your ownership and privately add your own records to make it a verified Legacy Metrics passport — provenance that backs your car's value at sale and gives your insurer evidence to price against. Roy reviews and verifies every registration personally.

Each chassis record is compiled from public auction archives and links to its source material. Ownership, competition and maintenance entries are extracted from those catalogue listings by an LLM, which can make mistakes — please contact us with any corrections. The summary is Legacy Metrics’ own writing; we do not reproduce catalogue text.

“Full” and “partial” documentation labels indicate how well each entry is corroborated in the underlying sources, not an audit of the car’s physical paperwork. Names of recent or living owners are withheld for privacy.