I’d expect that to cost £100k to restore at a specialist, but you’d end up with a glorious car. Thing is, you would probably have to wait 18 months to get it done and most decent RHD Khamsins I’ve seen for sale over the past few years have been around the £120-150k mark, so you’d be better off buying one of those and enjoying it.
However, if you enjoy spannering and can find a keen and talented bodywork expert to help, you might be able to make it lovely again for half that. It looks quite complete, but again the process is going to take a long time.
I hope some romantic fool saves it somehow.
No chance you’d get that properly restored by a specialist for £100k. It would be at least double. You could get it done to a fashion for less at any number of other garages, but the end value would be lower also.
Have a chat to McGrath or Emblem (the two U.K. restorers of classic Maseratis to produce concours winning cars currently) and ask them what recent projects have cost. It’s eye watering.
Values of LHD Khamsins in the EU remain quite high (maybe EUR 150k), but a U.K. RHD car hasn’t made that much for the last few years. The market has dropped. There’s a very nice one thats been for sale for a year at £110k, but still no takers (and it was on at £160k about 4 years ago). I went to see it and the owner is as lovely as the car. But I’m jittery about the market and would want it at below six figures, and while I’ve not made that offer, that’s largely because I’m sure he’d say no.
My old gold one is also available, but now needs too much work for me to be able to offer the owner sufficient money, even though I’m really keen to buy it back. My guess is that he wants maybe £90k, while I see it as £70k tops in its current condition. Tricky, as again, the owner is so nice.
That said, he had it off me for £30k (all be it about 14 years ago), so he hasn‘t done too badly!
The bottom line is that the market for Khamsins in tiny. Indeed, I sometimes get the impression it’s only me that’s looking. And that’s not good!