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years ago, it would take him another 11 years to find a Maybach that he could buy — and another 20 years to close the deal on the car.
Shortly after opening his medical practice in Warrenton in 1972, Dr. Maybach was talking with a pharmaceutical company representative who mentioned that he knew of an old Maybach. The car was painted the flat German Army green, and stored in a garage back in his old neighborhood in Baltimore.
Very interested in the car, Dr. Maybach pursued the lead.
He found out that the owner was a Mr. Conn, who had purchased the car — a 1939 Model SW-38 six-cylinder — from a former military man named MacArthur in the 1950s.
About a year after contacting Conn — who by then had moved to the Eastern Shore — a meeting was arranged at the garage in Baltimore.
But Conn forgot to bring the keys to the garage, and a face-to-face meeting with the car was delayed for yet another year. And Conn still wasn’t interested in selling it.
But Dr. Maybach kept in touch, and by 1992, Conn was ready to part with the Maybach. Twenty-eight years after he first saw the car, he the car home on a rollback.
Dr. Maybach and his brother Christopher, of Denver, got the old car’s engine running after only a half-hour of cleaning and adjusting.
According to the Maybach Register, there are about 130 of the pre-war Maybachs still in existence, with about 40 now in the U.S.
Underway for ten years already, restoration of Dr. Maybach’s Maybach proceeds, but slowly. With the body off the chassis and the sheet metal sandblasted and primed, Dr. Maybach figures he is about half-way done with the restoration.
“Restoring an old car like this one requires either a lot of time or a lot of money, and unfortunately, I don’t have a whole lot of either,” he said with a laugh.
Dr. Maybach is aware that even in its present, unassembled condition, his Maybach is a unique and very valuable automobile. But he cannot put a dollar value on the car, and has no plans to sell it — ever.
“It is far more valuable to us, because of its history,” he said. “It should never leave our family.”
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