The financial troubles the Maserati brothers, Bindo, Ernesto and Ettore, would find themselves in toward the late 1930s would affect the direction of their company in more ways than the brothers would realize. Of course, the most important way the company would be affected would be that the brothers would lose the company bearing their own name in 1947. Secondly, the troubles would change the focus of the company on a whole. But that would be a good thing as it would give the world the 3500 GT.

The Maserati brothers were geniuses when it came to designing grand prix and sports cars for the track. However, designing and building cars for production for the street was never really something the brothers focused on. This, of course, would be one of the problems the brothers would have. Companies like Alfa Romeo, even Enzo Ferrari, came to realize the need for street car sales to help offset costs associated with racing. And when the brothers sold their company to the Adolfo Orsi family in 1937, things would change.

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