Very good point Dicky, to be honest i have a list of approx 30 jobs that need doing, most are very minor and are for my own personal gratification and luckily i have the ability and the workshop to handle most jobs however complicated, at the moment i have a large box of parts sitting in my office waiting to be fitted including all the service items.
I am very lucky to have a very old friend who runs a porsche specialist local to me who carries out some sub-contract work for Migliore cars, so any specialist work requiring Maserati test equipment gets done as a favour.
I was very lucky to get the car at the price i did, the chap who was selling it is a trader and the car was his own personal transport, but due to medical problems it had sat on his drive unused for over 6 months, and un-loved, it took over an hour to clean all the green muck from around the window rubbers !
If the 4.7 is that good i may be interested in trading up in about 18 months time, so make a note in your diary Dicky.