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GransportFan1
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Yeah i would want a manual, and the wood would have to go as well.
Pibbow
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Hope you have the two and a half grand for the cardon trim pannels then Adam! If you can get a full set.
GransportFan1
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i would not have carbon, could you not get the wood panels wrapped in a leather trim?? that would be less expensive.
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Would imagine you could do that Adam...The only thing is people who buy a Ghible from that time expect wood as that was part of every Maserati back then.....Wood, gold clock and puffy leather was almost a signature......It was all about prestige and thats what Maserati believe prestige was.....Me I think it looks OK and works on that type of car..
GransportFan1
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Hhhmmmm yeah see where your coming from, i would without a doubt keep the gold clock though. Didn't Cartier produce them for Maserati?
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No Adam, they didn't actually...
They are usually referred to as the Lasalle clock.
I will now, at the risk of copyright infringement, quote from John Price William's excellent book; "Maserati, the Road Cars 1981-1997"
The Maserati clocks were named after a master watchmaker, Jean Lasalle of Geneva, who, in 1976, created the thinnest movement ever made for a wristwatch. The early clocks were marked Lasalle and made in Switzerland, not by watchmaker Jean hunched over a bench but by the giant Japanese Seiko group, to whom he sold out in the 1980s. Early clocks were powered by a small 1.55-volt silver oxide battery and the clock had to be taken out of the facia to replace it, with the risk of damaging the veneer. Later versions were powered directly from the electrical system.
there you go!
JimP
They are usually referred to as the Lasalle clock.
I will now, at the risk of copyright infringement, quote from John Price William's excellent book; "Maserati, the Road Cars 1981-1997"
The Maserati clocks were named after a master watchmaker, Jean Lasalle of Geneva, who, in 1976, created the thinnest movement ever made for a wristwatch. The early clocks were marked Lasalle and made in Switzerland, not by watchmaker Jean hunched over a bench but by the giant Japanese Seiko group, to whom he sold out in the 1980s. Early clocks were powered by a small 1.55-volt silver oxide battery and the clock had to be taken out of the facia to replace it, with the risk of damaging the veneer. Later versions were powered directly from the electrical system.
there you go!
JimP
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Thanks Jim, great knowledge again.