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    Goodbye; My GS LE sold.

    Greetings after a long absence - and goodbye. For personal reasons I sold my GS LE to Richard Grace. A nice last drive up through the Borders on Thursday (fingers crossed for no camera-generated letters), explored Chester in the afternoon, today walked the Snowdon Horseshoe in glorious weather...
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    Freshwater fish roads

    Road names dreamt up by developers or councillors may reflect the then-current political climate (Trafalgar Square. Victoria Place, Mandela Avenue) or heroes of the time... though they may fall out of favour (Rhodes, Saville etc). At other times they remember people or perhaps the now-vanished...
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    Shoelace knots

    For about half a century I have been tying my shoelaces in a certain way and then retying them as, all too soon they become undone - even with ugly double knotting of the loops Recent press coverage of this paper http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/473/2200/20160770 and...
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    Spanish traffic police

    A few hours ago we returned from Andalusia where I was paying particular attention to the frequency of cameras, traffic police etc as we're planning a road trip in my own car in the autumn to N Spain and I'm only too aware how easy it is to exceed the limit in the GS. Fixed cameras seem rare...
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    Fiery (literally) Italian temperament

    Sorry to bounce the Italian temperament thread with a new one (I couldn't edit the title to reflect this, a new and far worse development).. the audio died with the head unit still working so the slave amp sounded like the culprit, but I didn't get a chance to take out the battery and check its...
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    Italian temperament - selective loss of indicators, aircon...

    Now a fire! Whether it is relevant I'm not sure, but I decided [edit for the first time] to set the seat/mirror preference to my favoured positions and on setting off found I had no aircon or indicators. Clearly not a fuse as several unrelated bits weren't working and while the indicators...
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    Journalistic enthusiasm

    Sorry if this has been posted before, but I enjoyed the "mature" NZ journalist drooling over the haunches of the GS at 1:20... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLOVH0oRB-0 and a German word unknown to me before.... "der uhnderstatement" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s72l0VmuUjw
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    Hello! ... and, how do I change from F to C?

    Hello! ... any one kn0w how I change from F to C?? Greetings from a new member / owner. I've been keen on a Maserati for years and, with the children looking as if they might be off the payroll soon I collected my GS yesterday. Loving the car. Looking at the PDF of the (US) manual...