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NEW MASERATI CLASSIC KITS
Following on from the success of the “Maserati Classiche” series début, it’s with a great pleasure that the Maserati Classic Department announces the launch of the next five kits which will be added to the collection and can be ordered from today through your nearest official Maserati retailer.
Created with the advice from technical experts and authoritative automotive historians, Maserati Classiche kits are a perfect marriage of passion and dedication to the preservation and experience of the historic Maserati models.
This new release concerns the following models:
3500 GT
Mistral
Khamsin
Ghibli
Biturbo
Differently from the first books, these kits include the true copies of homologation documents and authentic commercial brochures coming from the Maserati Historical Archive. Furthermore, a vehicle sketch completes the offer.
The new Maserati Classic kits can be ordered through your nearest official Maserati retailer, using the following part numbers:
P/N 910040026 Maserati Classic kit - 3500 GT
P/N 910040027 Maserati Classic kit – Mistral
P/N 910040028 Maserati Classic kit – Ghibli
P/N 910040029 Maserati Classic kit – Khamsin
P/N 910040030 Maserati Classic kit – Biturbo
Images courtesy of Maserati
MASERATI HIGHLAND FLING II
22-29 June 2013
“Highland Fling II” will be another relaxing 8 day Touring Holiday of Scotland and the Isle of Mull, with no competitions or Quizzes.
The Proposed Provisional Program
Saturday 22nd June: Check-in to your Hotel (to be confirmed) on the shores of Gare Loch or Loch Lomond for one night, and then collect your “Highland Fling II” Tour/holiday packs, before meeting fellow entrants.
Sunday 23rd June: After a leisurely breakfast follow the planned route to the wonderful Western Isles Hotel in Tobermory, on The Isle of Mull, via, Loch Long, Loch Fyne, Lochgilphead, The Crinan Canal, The Nether Largie Cairns, Loch Craignish, Loch Melfort, Loch Feochan, and Oban where we catch the Ferry to the Isle of Mull and then drive on to our hotel in Tobermory, where we spend four nights.
Monday 24th June: A 'Free Day' to do as you wish, but you could visit Glengorm Castle, explore Tobermory, go for a walk to look for eagles and Otters etc. or do your own thing.
Tuesday 25th June: After a leisurely breakfast we take you on a spectacular car Tour around Mull through, Salen, Lochdonhead, Glen More, Loch Scridain, Loch na Keal, Loch Tuath, Calgary Bay with its Golden sandy beach, Dervaig, etc.
Wednesday 26th June: A second 'Free Day' to do as you wish, but, you could take a boat trip, or go and see the rare Sea Eagles, visit the Isles of Iona or Ulva, visit the Mull & West Highland narrow gauge railway, visit Duart Castle, or take a walk from Calgary Bay to Caliach Point which Pam and I have done, or just go Otter spotting.
Thursday 27th June: We leave the Isle of Mull by ferry to the Ardnamurchan Peninsular and on to our hotel (to be confirmed), near Fort William, (where we are for two nights), via Loch Mudle, Glenborrodale, (there is a RSPB site here), Salen, Strontian, Ardgour, Loch Linnhe, Loch Eil, Kinlocheil, and Corpach.
Friday 28th June: A third 'Free Day' to do as you wish, i.e. take a steam train trip from Fort William to Mallaig, this is the World Famous West Highland Line, visit the Glenfinnan viaduct, take a walk up Glen Nevis, Britain’s highest mountain, or just relax by Neptune’s Staircase (Caledonian Canal locks).
Saturday 29th June: We leave Fort William for our last hotel the wonderful Atholl Palace in Pitlochry, this is the same hotel as we finished at in 2010, and Pam and I cannot find a more suitable hotel to finish at, it is truly wonderful. We travel via Glencoe, Rannoch Moor, Tyndrum, Crainlarich, Killin, Loch Tay, Ben Lawers, Glen Lyon, Fortingall, Loch Rannoch, Loch Tummel and Killiecrankie.
The provisional estimated cost is £1975 per couple, which includes: - Two Car Ferry Crossings, Full Scottish Breakfast, Table d’hote Dinner which includes Wine, Champagne Receptions, plus full instructions, a Tour Plaque, Souvenir, Road book and 2013 Road Atlas etc.
If you may be interested in this Tour then please email me at the address below, no deposit required at this stage, just if you are initially interested.
Edwin J Faulkner
Tel: 01624 822622
email: ejf@manx.net
VERY IMPORTANT FOR MEMBERS!
Unwitting motorists face £1,000 fines as thousands of photo card driving licences expire.
Thousands of motorists are at risk of being fined up to £1,000 because they are unwittingly driving without a valid licence.
They risk prosecution after failing to spot the extremely small print on their photo card licence which says it automatically expires after 10 years and has to be renewed - even though drivers are licensed to drive until the age of 70.
The fiasco has come to light a decade after the first batch of photo licences was issued in July 1998, just as they start to expire.
Motoring organisations blamed the Government for the fiasco and said 'most' drivers believed their licences were for life.
A mock-up driving licence from 1998 when the photo cards were launched shows the imminent expiry date as item '4b'.
They said officials had failed to publicise sufficiently the fact that new-style licences - unlike the old paper ones - expire after a set period and have to be renewed.
To rub salt into wounds, drivers will have to a pay £17.50 to renew their card - a charge which critics have condemned as a 'stealth tax' and which will earn the Treasury an estimated £437 million over 25 years.
Official DVLA figures reveal that while 16,136 expired this summer, so far only 11,566 drivers have renewed, leaving 4,570 outstanding.
With another 300,000 photo card licences due to expire over the coming year, experts fear the number of invalid licences will soar, putting thousands more drivers in breach of the law and at risk of a fine.
At the heart of the confusion is the small print on the tiny credit-card-size photo licence, which is used in conjunction with the paper version.
Just below the driver name on the front of the photo card licence is a series of dates and details - each one numbered.
Number 4b features a date in tiny writing, but no explicit explanation as to what it means.
The date's significance is only explained if the driver turns over the card and reads the key on the back, which states that ‘4b’ means 'licence valid to'.
Even more confusingly, an adjacent table on the rear of the card sets out how long the driver is registered to hold a licence - that is until his or her 70th birthday.
A total of 25 million new-style licences have been issued but - motoring experts say - drivers were never sufficiently warned they would expire after 10 years.
Motorists who fail to renew their licences in time are allowed to continue driving but the DVLA says they could be charged with 'failing to surrender their licence', an offence carrying a £1,000 fine.
AA president, Edmund King said: 'It is not generally known that photo card licences expire: there appears to be a lack of information that people will have to renew these licences.
'People think they have already paid them for once over and that is it.
'It will come as a surprise to motorists and a shock that they have to pay an extra £17.50.'
The AA called on the Government to use the annual £450 million from traffic enforcement fines to offset the renewal charge.
RAC Membership
The Maserati Club is teamed with RAC rescue and we are able to get membership for 25% discount.
Ring 0800 581077 quoting DT1000 and your Club membership number for further details.
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