1975 Maserati Khamsin - Jay Leno's Garage
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- 1975 Maserati Khamsin. Maserati guru and president of the Riverside International Automotive Museum stops by with his original and unrestored Gandini-designed GT, named for a hot, violent desert wind.
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1975 Maserati Khamsin - Jay Leno's Garage
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Khamsim is the most overlooked car of the middle seventies, is simply amazing
Hey, Jay, Khamsin also means "fifty" ( خمسين khamsīn ) in Arabic.
The wind was called khamsin because it lasted 50 days !
Cheers and tchau !
That sticker on the windshield is actually the break in period!
''Maserati preferisce Agip'' = Maserati prefers Agip
''VETTURA IN RODAGGIO'' = Car breaking in (it shows that the car is clearly brand new!)
''Nei primi 1500 km (or ''kilometri''), non superare i 4000 giri'' = For the first 1500 kilometers, do not pass 4000 revolutions
Ray Boccino so it needs to avoid France in the late 18th century, and America in in the late 18th century, and Russia in the early 20th century and Romania in the late 20th century.
That's just 4 revolutions. It needs to avoid a further 3996 revolutions within 1500 km.
@@RB747domme If you are not sarcastic.. He was talking about : rpm.. not public, political, human fights & scandals ! ;0)
@@poplaurentiu4148 yep en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_per_minute
@@poplaurentiu4148 He wasn't sarcastic, he was dead serious.
These older Italian cars have a period of initial usage with a special abrasive oil in the engine. The engine wears to its perfect tolerances in the first 1500 km at a maximum 4000 rev/min. The burrs on the piston rings remaining from the manufacture process are eliminated, and all the mechanical parts adapt to each other. Then the abrasive oil containing burrs is replaced by normal oil in the servce. Today for example, Fiat Aegea cars have a similar rodaggio period but they dont use a rodaggio oil anymore. If the rodaggio period is obeyed, the engine lasts longer.
Never heard of this car before, thank you Jay for letting us experience what it was like. I love the assymetrical hood vents
I love Bertone design, typical italian design for the 70's
All Italian designs are so good. Even the humble VW Golf mk I looks good, designed by Italian.
Bora, Khamsin, Ghibli, Montreal, Merak, Boomerang, etc. Maserati knew how to build gorgeous cars back then.
Montreal = Alfa Romeo
Let's honour two young and outstandingly talented car designers:Giorgio Giugiaro and Marcello Gandini who penned so many awesome unforgettable cars.
@@MassimoLodiRizzini Exactly. The Montreal was an Alfa Romeo, not a Maserati.
A majestic Maserati. Would love to see more Maseratis in Jay's garage.
What a gorgeous car! I've always been partial to Gandini designs. I owned a Fiat X1/9 that I believe was designed by him when he was working for Bertone. It is the most beautiful car that I have ever owned! Thanks for featuring it , Jay!
I really love the way the hood has the intake grills, but not from left to right, purely functional, there is a inlet grill on the left but a little behind the other. That's what makes these 70's Italian cars unique, they all have some sort of special design feature.
Always love the look on the guy's face when Jay says "lets take it up on the freeway, get it into 5th gear and see what it does."
A man brought one over from Saudi Arabia, and my dad got to bring it home. He gave me a ride to high school, and did I felt special! I just remember how well it handled; it had no body roll and felt like it was on rails.
Un design senza tempo, una auto senza compromessi: sportiva. Se ti piace è così, oppure hai sbagliato scelta... GRANDE!!!
This car is a masterpiece (even if the color is a bit garish). And the sound of this car...magnificent. So special.
Hi Jay, love your videos.. btw "VETURA IN RODAGGIO" that you mentioned in this video means "vehicle running in" and the sticker shows the the preferred max revs for the first 1500kms as 4,000rpm. Thanks for your great love of cars and bikes, your passion brightens our day!!
....or, & also Agip oil preferred to be "run in car" "1500kms & 4000rpm". ????? Just a guess?!!!
@@chrispompanoRemember, AGIP is the Italian state national oil company, Maserati was partly state owned.... Italians wouldn't use anything else that Italian made stuff unless they had to because they didn't make it themselves. Very protectionist, but I'd say that Italian engineering is some of the most elegant in the entire world and still is.
The sticker says "Do not exceed 4000 rpm for the first 1500 km", which by the way accounts for 2/3 of max engine speed. There's not much to be had up top, so in all practicality 5500 is max revs, although you might push it further. I doubt the valvesprings where made to cope with high revs, it's a GT after all. I have seen them engine swapped for the newish 4691cc ~or 4,7 liter if you will V8 engine from the newer GranTurismo. I have seen that engine in al the classics; Khamsin, Indy, Bora and the achingly beautiful Ghibli (my favorites are the Ghibli and Bora.
Beautiful car .. thanks for pointing out the fine details ... I'm sorry that Mr. Magnon has passed away. The fine shape of this magnificent car says a great deal about his character. thank you Jay.
Why didn't they just exchange the plexiglass for sheet metal for the US version back in the day? Would have been a much more elegant and easier solution for this "problem"... Good that it's got it's original European design back today.
Bruningable j
It's really ALL they had to do, turn that one piece of plexi into a solid piece of bodywork. Anyone who says the plexi acts as a rear window didn't watch the video. Hint: the rear window acts as a rear window.
As my late father used to say [expletive deleted] feds.
@@BillB23 I rarely have the restraint to censor this phrase when I use it. Sigh.
@@secondopinion6654 'Solid piece' of body-work was a term not so well known by those Italians who wanted to build a light, agile, fast & beautiful supercars.. ;0)
Thanks for all the time and money invested in automotive history Jay.
And sharing it on UA-cam.
Hey Jay, you should do a Bora next! One of the few true 70's supercars!
Beautiful Maserati. I love that you could hop in and do a long road trip in comfort and style. Jay is a true petrol-head and purveyor of all things denim.
I love older Maserati. Not only for the cars, but the joy of saying Maserati. Maserati. Maserati.
Hansel. So hot right now. Hansel.
Wow! That was terrific. Leno obviously knows his stuff, when it comes to cars.
Gorgeous car!
Awesome car, I would love to own it!
I've never looked up to a celebrity as much as you, Jay! Thank you for being my inspiration.
One of my favourite cars when I was a kid - along with the Lamborghini Espada and De Tomaso Pantera and a few others.
YEP
9:17 Those were the instructions for the running-in of the engine
A friend of mine has a 74 Bora all original, except the bumpers. He did the same euro bumper conversion. The car looks so much sexier since he did it.
"Frog Juice"....
Still funny, years later.
On a related note, the car's owner was half owner of the motorcycle dealership "Newport Italian" in Costa Mesa, California, where my 1997 Moto Guzzi Sport 1100 had an extended stay before the shop was shuttered.
9:14 : stickers says that Maserati recomended AGIP engine oil, "Vettura in rodaggio" literally means "Car in run-in" [maybe the sticker is intended to be taken off after the run-in]. Do not exceed 4000 rpm for the first 1500km.
I like how "Clem at the Shell station" (as Jay Leno would say) hammered some clip-on wheel weights onto the original wheels of this pristine, low-mileage exotic car, the same as he'd do for rusty steelies on an old pickup truck. Apart from looking bad, those things chew up the lip of aluminum wheels, because the clips are made of steel which is harder than aluminum, not to mention the almost inevitable dings from when Clem misses his mark with his hammer while pounding them on.
Living here in France,and making a brave attempt to speak French in my daily life,I have to say that despite the many and various attempts by several posters to phonetically demonstrate how to pronounce the French car brands, all have failed to do so....Jay's way of pronouncing Citroen is no better or worse than anything other than the correct French way,which is not possible to write or explain,..My point is ,don't make any bar bets that you are pronouncing them correctly,especially based on the advice you are seeing posted here.... Call them as you see them and enjoy the videos.
And the French will still look down their noses at you even if you speak it perfectly.
Actually, it's SEE Troy ahn.
@@elroyfudbucker6806 Actually, if your accent is accurate, the French are impressed that you've made the effort to learn proper phonetics.
Back in those glorious days, a few Maserati cars had names of winds (usually "mean" winds): Mistral (from southern France), Khamsin (from the Sahara) and expecially the baddest of them all, the Bora, the strong wind of northern Adriatic, so strong that in the city of Trieste there used to be rope handrails fixed to building walls along the roads, so that pedestrians could hold on to them when the bora blew.
The definition of class and style
That car has absolutely beautiful lines.
Vettura In Rodaggio = Car break in period.
Well impressed with how far back the engine sits!
When design of cars was at it's supreme. No Chlorox bottles on wheels, but angular, clean lines. What a looker.
Love the 70's Italian supercars. Great video!
What a beautiful car. Thanks for showing it. Your show is a COVID stable for me.
Hello Jay, "Vettura in rodaggio" means new car with the need to break in the engine...
how could two serious car collectors like Jay and this fellow not know that....
jrfi orn it means adventure on the road, or for the road
Beautiful lines Mr Gandini.
Vettura in rodaggio means the engine is new and needs to go slower.
Si in rodaggio di minimo 500 mila km😂
Yellow is just beauty, moving up to elegance, Khamsin- wind, completes the feminine comfort of the car, just like a cool breeze.
Do the merak, or Indy, Bora.
I bet J. Leno would love to have/own any of those cars even this specially un-restored one too ! ;)
@@poplaurentiu4148 what about you? You would like them too.
@@bradford_shaun_murray Sadly i'm not an car collector like Mr. Jay Leno really is.. but yeah i am passionate about cars too specially when such rare unique beauties occur..
Mexico or Ghibli too. 60’s and 70’s Masers are astonishing
My father owned a 1972 Indy, a real 4 seater with the same 4.9 liter engine less the anti-smog devices ! 165 mph.....
I can't stand modern Maserati car design, but this car is utterly beautiful. I would be proud to own and drive this work of art and I'm a mere 22 years old. I prefer the vintage and classic car eras by far with the 50's to the early 70's being my favorite. I can't stand most modern cars.
That guest was great -- so respectful toward Jay!
Wow! Beautiful automobile. I remember it well. It reminds me of my 1975 Chevrolet Vega.....which was sort of the same in that it also had four wheels.....and an aftermarket FM converter. I modified my Vega also. I did not replace the bumpers, but I did cut the roof open with a jigsaw to install a pop up sunroof. The sunroof only leaked when it rained!!!!
This was my favorite era of automobile design. This car, the Maserati Quattroporte (1980's era) and the Lambo Jay mentioned - clean angular design. Nothing pretentious, just awesome.
tailights are very similar to the detomaso pantera
So, in my opinion, is the front end.
greg raines true
Siddharth verma Hmmm, a lot of parts bin parts were used amongst Alfa's, Ferrari's and Fiat's. The Lamborghini's rear lights are exactly the same on a Fiat 124AC.
Siddharth verma not sure but the taillights might be the same as on a Fiat 124 sedan
usine!
I seen a guy who pushed the tail lights out with a rubber boot gasket, got rid of all the crazy US add ons lol. Now it looked like the way it did in Europe except for the lights pushed out like a car door lock, locked vs unlock. Beautiful car, seen one with a tunnel ram poking over the roof line.
I love the tuck and rolled headliner. The engine and exhaust system sound great, too.
Thank You,Sir.Belisimo👍
The hatch with struts , the rear window shape, the angular vented rear vent , all similar to a 1977 Alfa Romeo Alfetta GT, you can see where the inspiration for those features came from.
1080p is a wonderful thing huh jay.finally
Thanks for the video Jay! And thanks to Riverside International for keeping this car alive!
And now Maserati are making SUVs :(
the rear seats are hysterical.
I always liked this car. My HS principal had one and let me ride in it on the autobahn around Vienna, Austria.
Jay you are the boss when it comes to knowing your cars
WTF is a sit-tro-en?
A brand of cheesy French Car-never seen in the states
Don't worry, you are not missing much. French cars are all garbage.
rbagel55 I was just poking holes in the pronunciation. I'm from the UK, they are quite common here.
John Tam Bugatti, French manufacturer, subsidary of Volkswagen AG. Let alone the Citroen DS. ;)
ckb313235 You say that, but Peugeot. Even 100 bugattis could not make up for Peugeot.
Awesome to see such a beautiful rare car being driven :) Thanks
Sorry Jay but to compare a European ( especially one from Bologna) alloy quad cam V8 with an American iron ohv V8 is an insult.
Paul Fabrique You're absolutely right, the 5.0l Fords carried on into the 90's and Chevy still follows their same basic design to this day. Making power and mpgs. All while starting daily and being driven right away, as opposed to European engines that had poor quality control, hp variances, poor mpgs and absolutely had to be babied to keep them alive... you're right the comparison is insulting. Why wouldn't a De Tomaso Pantera be a better choice than this car?
PGTMR2 Because the Pantera has a rough, heavy archaic, asthmatic push rod iron V8, which doesn't make much power per litre and isn't particularly efficient. This is why nearly all modern state of the art contemporary Engines follow the design philosophy of the Maserati V8, and not old ancient asthmatics American V8s. So when Maserati were pushing engineering boundaries, to compare their Efforts to a very basic, crass and simple American V8 is an insult, in my opinion.
A Pantera is a turd you can polish, you can make it better or leave it original. You can bring the engine almost up to modern times. No direct injection or cylinder deactivation though. Without using poetry can you explain a single boundary that was pushed by Maserati with this car. What was special about this engine? It seems to me a Ford 351could easily get the same job done. I've always seen Maserati as a cheap substitute for a Ferrari or Lamborghini. In other words, following their lead, not really inventing or innovating, copying. Alfa Romeo at least have their own style.
The engineering boundaries being pushed are figures like 520 hp out of 5657cc in the late 1950s out of Maserati Marine V8s. Maserati took quad overhead cams, with high revs and all alloy construction, with its light weight and put it on the road, in reliable form. Not to mention twin plugs in the 1954 450s. (400hp, 7500rpm, 4477cc). Maserati were looking at direct injection with twin plugs in 1954. Ferrari were conservative in their engineering compared to Maserati, both in chassis and powertrain. Look at the type 60 Birdcage. Ferrari was still using tube chassis....a 351 Windsor could not produce the same naturally aspirated power litre for litre as a Maserati V8 and weigh the same. Like all iron single cam push rod V8s, the Ford was archaic in the 60s. The reason they survive is because they are cheap. And nasty. De Tomaso only chose the American V8 for the Pantera because it was cheap and available. Nothing you can do to a pushrod V8 will "bring it up to modern times"... Whereas a quad cam alloy V8, like the Maserati, has plenty in common with a modern state of the art Audi or BMW V8. There is a reason you never see American cars in Europe. We think they are big, slow gas guzzling ugly barges. With ancient V8s!
You'd be wrong then.You can buy just about any American v8, made just about any way you want it in the aftermarket. The latest Corvette still has pushrods and cylinder deactivation, direct injection and all the modern goodies, makes plenty of power and still wins in fuel economy. So far as gas guzzling barges, we don't make those anymore. Europe does. I normally argue the other direction. I'd prefer a BMW M or AMG, or a Porsche anything over a Corvette. I prefer a 4 cam, 4 or 5 valve engine over 2 overhead valves. But this elitist crap about not even comparing the engines is rediculous. Have you listened to a Jaguar or AMG lately? They're emulating the sound of good old American v8s and people are loving it, same with all the prestige brands. Listen to a new Vette back to back with a Jaguar, AMG and a v8 Mustang. How would you know the value of your quad cam engine if it wasn't compared to other engines. Think about how bad cars would be wherever you live if Americans weren't pushing for pollution controls, safety features and general automotive tech.
GREAT looking car, beautiful lines, and appropriate colour scheme...very nice!
I haven't read the comments so maybe this has been said a lot but it has similar lines to the Pantera DeTomaso...gorgeous profile.
I supplied the European bumpers to my old friend Doug. I miss him much.
RIP Doug!
During the era of the Orsi brothers this was the last of the classic frontmotor rearwheel drive Maseratis, the last was built around 1982 or so, it was the successor of the Ghibli (1967 to 1973). The V8 engine was derived from the racing car Maserati 450s which was driven by Fangio in Buenos Aires in 1957 and from 1959 on many models used this type of engine ( 5000GT / Quattroporte Mk1/ Mexico/ Ghibli/ Bora/ Khamsin/ Indy/ Kyalami) . Then Mr. Alejandro de Tomaso came and introduced the little 2 litre Biturbo in 1983.
I've seen this car in person at Cars & Cappuccino in Riverside, CA. Looks amazing in person!
There’s always something magic about Maseratis of this era
A valuable specimen from the golden age of italian design in the automotive sector.
Ahhhhhhh sotp saying "sit'youin" it killisme every time he says it.
I love everything about this car, except the color. Thanks for another glimpse at our automotive past, Jay.
Colour is perfect
This is one super elegant Maserati. I like it a little better than the Bora. One of my high school favorites from the 70's / 80's. Cheers.
I am sure someone already told you this, but the sticker refers to the breaking in of the car. AGIP, and the 6 legged wolf breathing fire sign of Saipem are oil company logos. I only really know this because I worked for Saipem.
Always loved these, and being a Brit, but having holidays in Europe in the 70's & 80's, saw quite a few. They have a real presence in reality, and looked amazing. It makes me laugh, the way Jay says 'Cit-ro-en', which is how it is spelt, but the French say it 'Ceet-Ron'- great episode, though- brought back some childhood memories....
That's a sweet sounding V8. Sounds powerful!
Jake, must be your first time to see Jay Leno ever? He has a full staff of technicians and care takers I am sure, given the size of his collection. I trust that this car would be tidied up and Jays paw prints would be cleaned up before the car leaves the garage. Don't let things like this work you up man, life is too precious to get in a twist over living.
I was a Maserati mechanic when this car was new. The first Maserati I ever worked on was a Khamsin.
Jay, you never talk about the performance parts like the windshield wipers. I'm looking at those windshield wipers and I have all sorts of questions.
OMG this thing is just GORGEOUS, the proportions are perfect, all the angles as well... Screw E-type.
Thx for putting your videos in HD as of now ;)
0:20 What a beautiful sight. I hope my garage can resemble one of yours one day, Jay.
It has more cues of Urraco and some from the 1971 Countach prototype in the rear. Pretty intresting car! Thanks, Jay!
Really like the styling of 70's supercars including the entry or lesser models like the Khamsin, Pantera, Urraco and the (early) Boras. All models listed have a similar look to them.
It is a real Mako looking car. The sea and boats had a heavy design influence over Italian cars, Spanish cars too LOL!
Doug Magnon, the founder of Riverside International Automotive Museum,
died at the age of 55 in February 2015, due to cancer. RIP Doug.
I saw this at Cars and Cappuccino Riverside. It left to go to Jay Leno's Garage to film this video.
In case anyone is wondering... vettura in rodaggio nei primi 1500 km non superare 4000 giri = car break- in the first 1500 km does not exceed 4000 rpm
Beautiful car, one of my favorites. Thank you for making this video.
Wow That Car Is 😍 Beautiful
Odd duck- the Ghibli was the most beautiful Maserati ever built for the street, and the Costin LeMans car was the wildest racer.
The body at the rear looks like an Alfa Romeo Montreal. Too cool!
great love this no nonsens car show .shows exactly what we want to hear and see :)
One of the Prettiest Maseratis, definitely styled similarly to a Lamborghini Uracco except for the front engine.
I think the back seats were not intended to make insurance cheaper but were in fact put in because of taxes. A 2 seater was taxed at a much higher rate in many European countries compared to a 4 seater.... Which is why many cars in the 70's had pointless back seats. No one ever intended anyone to sit in them but they were still enough to reduce the taxes.
Stupid socialist laws made just to extort people and assert government control
Jay, do the 84 Honda civic crx HF. They got @ 55 mpg and are a great history piece.
I own a khamsin.....let me tell you...i love it so much
Congrats. One of our neighbors growing up had a yellow khamsin. It's always been one of my favorite classic cars.
Id love to see him do another show/channel where he goes onto the streets and finds cars and interviews the owner and basically does this but with street/modded/race car (not some riced up civic though). show the hard work and dedication of some peoples passions.
YOU should be the reporter on the Corner!
Jay almost made a blooper there @ 5:30, pulling hood down with rod in place
Awesome car! Always loved them... thanks for the video
Nice to hear "Citro-en" rather than the totally incorrect "Citrin" often said here in UK.
What a gorgeous car.
Gandinni a real genius.....👏👏👏👏