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That's got @MarkMas written all over it! Except I think he already has expensive luggage.
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I typically use grocers bags. Ensuring a matching set is pretty easy.I really don't like these. Seem like the worst of 1970s Italian 'design'.
They were auctioning pairs of Maserati suitcases (not complete sets) at the Maserati Club Xmas lunch. Went for £250.
This is proper luggage:
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low miles GS on collecting cars
£7-8k?? Early car, weak colour combo?Manual 3200 on Trade Classics.
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Be interesting to see what this one does. The last 3200 they put up didn’t do very well at all!
Yes, it’s the same combo as my 3200, which is quite understated. This, I find, has a bit of an advantage when you have to leave the car parked somewhere. It means that youth don’t spit on it or decide to dance on the bonnet (as happened to a Ferrari down the road from me).£7-8k?? Early car, auto, weak colour combo?
I like it in SilverYes, it’s the same combo as my 3200, which is quite understated. This, I find, has a bit of an advantage when you have to leave the car parked somewhere. It means that youth don’t spit on it or decide to dance on the bonnet (as happened to a Ferrari down the road from me).
£7-8k?? Early car, weak colour combo?
The end float problem and the cost of a getting a clutch done put me off going for a manual. But, on the drive video, the owner does say that a cam belt and major service have just been done and that the clutch was changed recently. The underside doesn’t look too bad either, although you can’t see much of the front subframe. And I wouldn’t trust an MOT tester on that (I’ve known them miss issues with the captive nuts in the chassis rails)!Only two services in the last 14 years and no end-float reading. Why would anybody gamble on paying more than the value that could be recouped by breaking it?
I remember that Ducati had three importers (Moto Cinelli, Three Cross and A.N. Other (Carnells?) ) at one stage before Ducati employed a Mr C. Fogarty of Blackburn. They then got serious about selling bikes in the UK. Luckily being simple things bikes Pantahs, 851/888, were pretty much single spec. The only problem were the narrowminded dealers in the 1990's, who didn't like it if you had a euro-spec bike and wanted them to service it. Particularly Jack Machin's of Lincoln (now closed!) , his son was far more approachable and was happy to service my two Kawasakis. Funnily enough, he didn't like his dad either at the time.As a UK car from that period it could be a mixture of anything, to be honest. It’ll upset rivet counters but the UK importers (which had a tendency to go bust fairly often) largely had to finish the cars off themselves with whatever they had to hand, in two cases via sheds either at Elland Road or Southampton docks. Factory support for the UK was never brilliant.
Add in less than great parts supply in the years since and what The Internet says a car should or shouldn’t have doesn’t often tally with a particular year.
When Meridien took over the concessionaire they bought c30 cars that had been sat around for an indeterminate time and had to make the best they could.
and the 2017 720S made 111k plus fees.....
They’re getting cheap, too fast for most people.and the 2017 720S made 111k plus fees.....