Maseratis at Auction
FINE ART, ANTIQUES & AUTOMOBILES
The Auction Centre
Bury St Edmunds
13th March 2010
AUTOMOBILES
These two Maseratis, form part of a genuine barn find of 8 cars from a deceased estate just outside Bury St Edmunds.
All cars (with the exception of the Nissan Patrol) have been unused for at least 10 years, and in some cases for far longer.
The cars are all sold as seen; no attempt has been made by the auctioneers to start or mechanically inspect the vehicles.
Log books are available for inspection from the office.
Cars will only be released upon receipt of CLEARED FUNDS.
Buyers are reminded that upon the fall of the hammer the lots become their responsibility. Any vehicles not collected by 2pm on Monday 15th March will be removed to nearby safe storage at a cost of £75 per vehicle, with a further charge of £10 per car per day until collection.
PLEASE NOTE: A BUYERS PREMIUM OF 7.5% PLUS VAT IS APPLICABLE FOR THE MOTOR VEHICLES ONLY
LOT 751 - A MASERATI QUATTROPORTE III
4900cc V8 - Four door saloon - Silver
Reg No. G567 HRP
Chassis No. AM330/49*5768*
Engine No. 5768
Recorded Mileage 960
First registered 21/08/1989
Notes: This example came from the last year of manufacture, is left hand drive, and has been owned since new by the vendor.
Purchased from Emilia Concessionaires Ltd of Silverstone in August 1989 for £41,500 including VAT.
Estimate £7,000 - 9,000
LOT 750 - A MASERATI KHAMSIN
4930cc V8 - Two door coupé - Green
Reg No. C778 UNX
Chassis No. & Engine No. AM120*419*
Recorded Mileage 12,688 miles
First registered 01/08/1985
Notes: Owned since new by the vendor, car without its dashboard and instrumentation although most parts appear to still be with the car.
Khamsin production officially ceased in 1982, although this example was first registered in 1985.
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000
Maserati at the Rotunda
I am delighted to advise that a fabulous Maserati 5000GT, styled by Allemano, is currently on display at the Royal Automobile Club in Pall Mall, London.
This is the very first Maserati of any description to be shown in the club and we could not have wished for a more regal example. This is chassis AM103.026 and has been very kindly lent with the permission of the owner, a member of the Maserati Club UK, and the assistance of Andy Heywood and his staff at Bill McGrath Limited.
For just a few more days our members, their guests and visitors to the Pall Mall headquarters will be greeted by the wonderful centrepiece that graces the Rotunda of the building, which next year celebrates a century since completion.
I've enclosed a few pictures which show the 5000GT presented in a totally unique setting - the historical home of British Motoring.
Best wishes and Regards,
John Godley
Motoring Secretary
The Royal Automobile Club
The Maserati 5000GT by Allemano
on display in the Rotunda
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A CHRISTMAS DINNER THANK YOU!
The 2009 Christmas Dinner was a resounding success and Gail Mosley, organiser, would like to thank Nigel McMorrough and Glen Butt of Meridien Modena in Lyndhurst for kindly sponsoring the pre dinner drinks.
2009 SUBSCRIPTION REMINDER
Following the success of the newsletter insert last year, here is the reminder for your year 2010 subscription.
PLEASE NOTE - This reminder excludes all members already paying by standing order, honorary members or membership number 4589 and above.
Please send a cheque for £50 made out to the "Maserati Club" to Dave Smith at the address shown below. If you are paying by company cheque, please add your name and/or membership number. The subscription for non-European countries is £65.
Alternatively you can download and complete the standing order form from HERE and send to Dave Smith at the address shown below.
Maserati Club Office
2 Sunny Bank
Widmer End
Bucks. HP15 6PA
All the best for 2010.
CLASSIC MOTOR SHOW
NEC, Birmingham - November 2009
MASERATI CLUB UK
Members and Maserati enthusiasts who attended this year's show couldn't have helped but be impressed with this year's display.
  
In case you are not aware, Peter Holmes and Jim Hunt stepped in at the last minute and agreed to organise the display, to ensure the Club's participation this year. As Peter explained; "We owed it to the Club and Simon Lees-Milne's legacy of fine work over the years".
You may recall, last year organiser Roger Harrison presented us with a fine display of those often maligned, but highly prized by many, Maseratis from the "Biturbo Era". This year's visitors saw one of the finest displays of Concours winning Grand Tourers from the 1960's and 1970's.
Just one of the stars on the stand was one of 22 Allemano bodied 5000GTs from a total production run of only 34 cars. Manufactured in 1964, this car was at one time owned by Joe Walsh of the Eagles. This was the car that inspired his lyric "My Maserati does 185, I lost my licence, now I don't drive."
 
In addition, there was a 1960 3500GT with the lightweight "Supperleggera" construction by Carrozzeria Touring of Milan: a 1966 Series 2 Sebring; a rare 4 litre Mistral built in 1966; a 1970 Ghibli SS; a totally unrestored 1971 Indy with just 29,700 miles from new; a 1968 Mexico - the original London Motor Show model, and a 1977 Khamsin.
 
To complete this award winning line up and bringing the display right up to date, there was the very latest Maserati GranTurismo S courtesy of Graypaul Birmingham.
Owners of these fine classics and members of the Maserati Club were on hand to answer any questions and the Club regalia stand offered everything Maserati from items of clothing, books, DVDs, etc.
Peter and Jim would like to say a big thank you to the owners who loaned their precious Maseratis, to Graypaul Birmingham for loaning the GranTurismo S, all the 30 Club members who variously gave up their time to help man our stand over the 3 days at the Classic Motor Show; to the magnificent “A” Team for helping to build up and dismantle the stand before and after the show, and to Roger Harrison, Enrico Pederzolli, Edwin Faulkner and Dick & Mary Pole for their sterling contributions.
A special vote of thanks goes to David and Angie Daw of Event Exhibition & Design Ltd who very generously supplied much of the display material and assisted with its the transportation and storage.
The assembled Maseratis were accompanied by impressive display panels
Pages from the Italian magazine "Menu dei Motori" 2008 and 2009 devoted to the Maserati Club UK
A short history of Maserati
Maserati production from 1926 to 1979
 
Official factory brochures for the Maserati 3500 GT and 5000GT
 
Official factory brochures for the Maserati Sebring and Mistral
 
Official factory brochures for the Maserati Mexico and Ghibli
 
Official factory brochures for the Maserati Indy and Khamsin
NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY PROJECT
Dear Members,
My name is James Burnell and am currently studying in my final year of Transportation Design at Northumbria University. I am about to undertake a new project focused on the marque Maserati as it is one I am particularly interested in, and hopefully after university the owner of one!
I am writing to you in the hope that the Maserati Club can help me in the initial stages of my project, to help me create an exciting and worthwhile piece of design work. My plan thus far is to research and to understand the marque and branding of Maserati both past and present so that I may generate ideas for a new car that extends and develops the brand. A particular interest to me would be to ultimately focus on the racing pedigree of the marque and possibly produce a piece of work relating more to the classic racing cars.
It would be of infinite importance to me if you could help me find out from yourself or other owners of Maserati, both classic and modern cars:
Why they bought one?
How it feels to own and drive?
What the marque means to them?
How they feel about the history of Maserati?
What they think about the modern brand?
What they would like to see in the near future from the brand.
I look forward to your reply and thank you for any help that can be provided.
James Burnell.
If you'd like to help James with his project, you can contact him at james.burnell@hotmail.co.uk
VERY IMPORTANT FOR DRIVERS!
Posted - 13 February 2009
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.
YOUR ASSISTANCE IS NEEDED!
Posted - 04 February 2009
"Dear Members,
I'm contacting you from Longstone Tyres, in the hope that one of your members will be able to help me.
Presently I am in discussions with Pirelli to make some period tyres for classic cars. I already have the 185VR16 for the 50's and early 60's Maseratis, but in the mid to late 60's they fitted a 205R15 Pirelli Cinturato. I am intending on getting Pirelli to remake this exact tyre.
It would be a great help to me if one of your membership had one of these original tyres that I could supply to Pirelli as a control tyre. The tyre I want is like the one on this Lamborghini that I have from this Borrani promotional photograph (see below).
Please note the distictive tread pattern at the foot of the photograph
Any help your club members could give would be gratefully accepted.
Regards,
Dougal."
Email: dougal@longstonetyres.co.uk
Tel: 01302 711123
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.
Exciting news for all club members
The central Maserati Club in Modena have announced a special promotion aimed at
existing paid-up members of the following Maserati Clubs:
Club Maserati Australia
Maserati Club Austria
Maserati Classico Belgio
Maserati Club France
Deutscher Maserati Club
Maserati Club Japan
Maserati Club Holland
Norsk Maserati Klubb
The Maserati Club (SA)
Maserati Club of Sweden
Maserati-Club Schweiz (CH)
Maserati Club UK
The Maserati Club USA
Members of the Maserati Clubs listed above will now qualify for membership to the Official Maserati Club at a specially discounted one-time enrolment fee of EURO 200. This special offer represents a saving of approximately 33% off the normal joining-up fee of EURO 300.
This enrolment fee entitles each applicant to one year's membership (the membership year runs from 1st January to 31st December), plus a "Welcome Kit" comprising of:
a personalised solid silver membership card
a dark blue Maserati Club polo shirt ( available in S, M, L, XL or XXL )
a Maserati Club baseball cap
a pair of Maserati blue/beige bi-chrome nappa leather driving gloves (available in S, M, L or XL )
a set of four Maserati Club car stickers
Members are also entitled:
1. to take part in the following events scheduled for 2008.
Date TBA - General Assembly
29th-30th March 2008 - Meeting at Cervia military airport
19th-20th April 2008 - 3rd Maserati Club Trophy
10th-11th May 2008 - Weekend in Tuscany
30th May- 1st June 2008 - Meeting at Balocco circuit
22nd June 2008 - Master Racing Maserati Club
September 2008 - Weekend in Montecarlo
7th-9th November 2008 - Truffles and Wine
14th December 2008 - Christmas Lunch
On each occasion, a welcome kit containing a special gift from the official Maserati Store will be given to participating members.
Meetings in collaboration with other clubs are under discussion.
2. to retrieve information from the Maserati historic archive and download User’s and Maintenance Manuals
for all Maserati cars which are no longer in production, registering with the site for Maserati clients:
www.owners.maserati.com
3. to a 10% discount on:
- Maserati and Maserati Club merchandising on sale at Maserati in Modena
and
at Maserati Club events in Italy
- wheel rims for classic cars from "Borrani". Members should contact Mr Politi
"Ruote Milano”:
tel: +39 02 8240151; fax; +39 02 8259320.
Members may also benefit from a number of special offers (to be announced) and take part in events organised by supporting clubs.
Eleonora Tassinari
Segreteria Maserati Club
Viale Ciro Menotti, 322
I-41100 Modena (MO)
Tel: +39 059.590 786
Fax: +39 059.866 3823
E-mail: etassinari@maserati.it
Web site: www.maseraticlub.com
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