Retaining its numbers-matching engine, this 450S benefits from a well-maintained 1990s restoration and in-depth history/research reports by two of the Maserati niche’s most respected historians, combining for one of the best-presented of the 10 examples. The penultimate example produced, chassis number 4509 was ordered new through Carroll Shelby’s Texas-based sports car business by Jesse “Ebb” Rose, a privateer racing driver and owner of the J.H. Rose Truck Line company of Houston, Texas.
