Any Zagato has always been something extraordinary and has been so now for over 100 years, that the company has been in existence. The Zagato Mostro is no exception. The first Mostro to be introduced to the world was the Gullwing Coupe version, and no better way to reveal such a beauty than at Villa d’Este Concours d’Elegance in 2015 under 250 km away from the factory where the soul and spirit of the Mostro was brought to life, to the celebration the 100th anniversary of Maserati. Seven years would pass by before the presentation of the roofless version of the Coupe version, the Zagato Mostro Barchetta as it was given by name.
This hyper exclusive car was limited to a production run of only five cars, of which all were sold. The Mostro coupe was made as a tribute to the Maserati 450 S which the late great racingdriver Juan Manuel Fangio drove in 1956 race in Buenos Aires. This very powerful race car had had been redesigned in 1957 by British designer Frank Costin to much more aerodynamic principles, and then hand built in Milan by Zagato. It was to be raced by Sir Stirling Moss in the 1957 24 Hours of Le Mans, which Sir Stirling then dubbed that car ¨The Monster¨, as the more aerodynamic lines were not conventionally more pretty.