1956 OSCA MT-4 TN
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It quickly became apparent that the Maserati brothers had hit on a winning formula with the OSCA. Stirling Moss and Bill Lloyd drove one to first overall at the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1954. Subsequent versions ranged, in terms of output, from 750cc inline-fours to 2,000cc sixes. Moreover, unlike most of the people who were producing comparatively affordable performance specials in Italy during those years, most notably Abarth, the Maseratis didn’t start out with somebody else’s production car, such as a Fiat or Alfa Romeo. The OSCA was almost entirely theirs from the ground up. This 1956 MT4-TN–the TN stands for “Tipo Nuevo”–is one of an estimated 25 that OSCA built that year with all-aluminum, integral-headrest Morelli bodywork, just 13 of which were also assembled with the Maserati-designed 1,491cc twincam four, which produced 135hp through a ZF four-speed manual transmission, and utilized a cast-iron block and aluminum twin-plug cylinder head, breathing through dual Weber 40 DC03 carburetors. Its premium-quality internal pieces include billet connecting rods and crankshaft.
By Jim Donnelly from the December 2006 issue of Hemmings Motor News
1956 OSCA MT-4 TN
Lime Rock 2019
It quickly became apparent that the Maserati brothers had hit on a winning formula with the OSCA. Stirling Moss and Bill Lloyd drove one to first overall at the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1954. Subsequent versions ranged, in terms of output, from 750cc inline-fours to 2,000cc sixes. Moreover, unlike most of the people who were producing comparatively affordable performance specials in Italy during those years, most notably Abarth, the Maseratis didn’t start out with somebody else’s production car, such as a Fiat or Alfa Romeo. The OSCA was almost entirely theirs from the ground up. This 1956 MT4-TN–the TN stands for “Tipo Nuevo”–is one of an estimated 25 that OSCA built that year with all-aluminum, integral-headrest Morelli bodywork, just 13 of which were also assembled with the Maserati-designed 1,491cc twincam four, which produced 135hp through a ZF four-speed manual transmission, and utilized a cast-iron block and aluminum twin-plug cylinder head, breathing through dual Weber 40 DC03 carburetors. Its premium-quality internal pieces include billet connecting rods and crankshaft.
By Jim Donnelly from the December 2006 issue of Hemmings Motor News