Thursday, January 16, 2014

Junkyard Find: 1986 Maserati Biturbo Spyder

12 - 1986 Maserati Biturbo Spyder Convertible Down On The Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee MartinYesterday, we saw a junked Jensen Interceptor that I photographed during a trip to Los Angeles. Today, I'll follow that up with another rare import from the same yard: a Maserati Biturbo Spyder! This is only the second Biturbo in this series, after this '84.
08 - 1986 Maserati Biturbo Spyder Convertible Down On The Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee MartinI lived in Orange County during the mid-to-late 1980s, and the torrents of ill-gotten cash being sloshed around Irvine and Newport Beach during what became the the S&L Crisis (the notorious Lincoln Savings and Loan, poster child of the scandal that tarnished the reputations of John Glenn and John McCain, was headquartered a mile or so from my home at the time) resulted in an explosion of low-level scamsters buying brand-new European status cars. Most of them bought BMW E24s or E28s, but a significant minority went Italian and got Alfa Milanos or Maserati Biturbos.
02 - 1986 Maserati Biturbo Spyder Convertible Down On The Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee MartinI have a vivid 1987 memory of being at a stoplight at Jamboree and Campus in Irvine and pulling up behind a brand-new Biturbo convertible in my hooptie-ass 1968 Mercury Cyclone. I remember having Yello's "I.T. Splash" (part of the excellent "Frank Johnson's Favorites" compilation) on cassette at that moment. I thought the E24 was sort of a cool car at the time, though as much out of my financial reach as a Jupiter Base would be out of the reach of the Guyanese Space Program, but the sight of this top-town twin-turbocharged Maserati made me feel a deep and painful longing.
07 - 1986 Maserati Biturbo Spyder Convertible Down On The Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee MartinOf course, it wasn't long before it became clear that the Biturbo was really a profoundly terrible car (the Milano turned out to look pretty good in hindsight, but maybe that's just me), but it was a badass machine for about 18 months in S&L-looting circles.
17 - 1986 Maserati Biturbo Spyder Convertible Down On The Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee MartinThe car I remember was blue, so this one— spotted at a wrecking yard about 35 miles away from that intersection— is a different one. The dirt and grime suggest that it sat dead in a back yard or driveway for the last couple of decades, then got junked when it became clear that even a Biturbo convertible isn't worth restoring.
03 - 1986 Maserati Biturbo Spyder Convertible Down On The Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee MartinWhat would I have bought, had I gotten my nose in the Lincoln Savings trough in 1986? Sad to say, probably a Starion.
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