Maserati almost conquers the Adriatic
Published 21 July, 2009, 14:03
Coastguard services have prevented what could well have been the first conquest of the sea by world-famous Maserati cars.
It was probably the Neptune’s trident used in the Maserati logo that gave Marco Amoretti and Marcolino de Candia, two daring Italians, the idea to refurbish the car into a boat.
Not only did they fulfill the unusual idea of creating “Miriam”, the first ever waterproof car-boat, but they also set sail from the resort of Bocca di Magra.
However, as italian ANSA reports, their journey was cut short, when local coast guards seized the inventors, as they docked for a meal near a local restaurant. They were fined hundreds of euros and ordered to remove Miriam from the water.
According to their own statement, the two believed the car’s travel test would empower it for sea travel, and planned to go on all-Italy cruise circumnavigating from Bocca di Magra on Italy’s western coast to Venice on the eastern.
Ananova also reports claims that in 1999 Amoretti and de Candia traveled across the Atlantic Ocean – from the Canary Islands to Martinique – in a converted Ford Taunus and a Volkswagen Passat.
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