The Maserati Tipo 26 was a model of Grand Prix racing car and was the first car built by Italian manufacturer Maserati, for a total of 11 examples, between 1926 and 1932.[2]
The Tipo 26 originated from a Grand Prix car that Alfieri Maserati had designed for Diatto: when the collaboration between Maserati and Diatto ended, Alfieri took his design to the Bologna workshop that he had set up with his brothers in 1914.[3]
The design of the Tipo 26 consisted of a steel ladder-type frame supporting a supercharged inline-eight engine displacing 1492.9 cc, with a bore and stroke of 60x66 mm, with a three-speed manual transmission and aluminium two-seater bodywork made by Medardo Fantuzzi.[2][3]
The engine featured a crankshaft-driven Roots supercharger, twin gear-driven overhead camshafts