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More on this from Simon Davies at Maserati Club UK. (Edited for brevity, typos and rogue apostrophes.)
To celebrate the model’s production history, and its 60th anniversary, the Maserati Club UK has organised a "Quattroparty", designed to reunite as many Quattroporte owners and their cars around a planned Club event, being the Salon Privé Club Trophy by Lockton Performance Day on August 31st 2024 at Blenheim Palace. The “Quattroparty” is a subset of the Salon Privé Club Trophy by Lockton Performance event, which is open to all Maseratis, whether owned by members of the Maserati Club UK or not!
The beautiful, palatial location and well established annual event will provide an excellent backdrop to our celebration of the Maserati Quattroporte, the location having the flexibility to accommodate a significant number of cars and the audience of the other prestige car clubs that attend being appropriately educated to appreciate the best of Italian automotive engineering.
The Salon Privé Club Trophy by Lockton Performance Day is an event for all Maseratis, and their owners, but in 2024 we want to bring together sixty (60) Quattroportes, of all six series produced, to celebrate each year of the stylish motor car’s production at this suitably beautiful location. The ambition is to bring together sixty cars, and we are already well on our way (mid-May) with over twenty cars having already committed to attend.
We are working on some suitably themed competitions and entertainments to make this event a memorable day for Maserati owners, especially those lucky enough to own a Quattroporte. We will provide more details as we have them.
One thing that has already been organised by the Maserati Club UK is a technical help area (under a club gazebo) where those owners with older cars, who are looking to continue to maintain their charges at reasonable cost, will be able to discuss issues and obtain advice from skilled Quattroporte technicians from McGrath Maserati and Emblem Motors.
Could I ask you to book your tickets as early as possible. Salon Privé like to know how many cars from each car club are attending the event before they decide on which paddock area they allocate: the more of you there are, the better the location you are given! For Maserati to be allocated one of the most prestigious locations, and especially this year when we will have so many QPs attending, Salon Privé need to see good early sales levels from Maserati owners.
To do this we need loads of Maserati owners to sign up as early as possible and the “secret sauce” here is the Quattroporte V. There are currently 1,402 Quattroporte V’s, UK registered and with a valid MOT, making this model one of the most populous Maseratis on our roads and easily the most numerous of the Quattroporte models! Last year’s Salon Privé Club Trophy by Lockton celebrated V12 Lamborghinis, the South Lawn at Blenheim Palace being covered with Murcielagos! For 2024 we are hoping that Club Privé will extend a similar opportunity to the Maserati Club UK and allow them to celebrate sixty years of the Maserati Quattroporte in appropriate style! Quattroporte V owners: we need you at Blenheim Palace on August 31st.
There is no “official” Maserati Club overnight hotel for those travelling a longer distance, and who may wish to arrive in the vicinity of the event the night before, but some Maserati owners have arranged to stay at the Cartwright Arms Hotel in Aynho. It is a family run hotel of moderate cost and means, but has clean rooms, a decent bar and restaurant and a coaching arch entrance to the car park (which nicely amplifies Maserati exhaust tones as you pass through)! It is only a twenty minute drive the next morning to get to Blenheim Palace.
If you choose to stay the night before then please make your own booking but also let me know. If there are enough of us we can try and organise a dinner for all the Maseratistas staying there, and start the “Quattroparty” the night before!
To celebrate the model’s production history, and its 60th anniversary, the Maserati Club UK has organised a "Quattroparty", designed to reunite as many Quattroporte owners and their cars around a planned Club event, being the Salon Privé Club Trophy by Lockton Performance Day on August 31st 2024 at Blenheim Palace. The “Quattroparty” is a subset of the Salon Privé Club Trophy by Lockton Performance event, which is open to all Maseratis, whether owned by members of the Maserati Club UK or not!
The beautiful, palatial location and well established annual event will provide an excellent backdrop to our celebration of the Maserati Quattroporte, the location having the flexibility to accommodate a significant number of cars and the audience of the other prestige car clubs that attend being appropriately educated to appreciate the best of Italian automotive engineering.
The Salon Privé Club Trophy by Lockton Performance Day is an event for all Maseratis, and their owners, but in 2024 we want to bring together sixty (60) Quattroportes, of all six series produced, to celebrate each year of the stylish motor car’s production at this suitably beautiful location. The ambition is to bring together sixty cars, and we are already well on our way (mid-May) with over twenty cars having already committed to attend.
We are working on some suitably themed competitions and entertainments to make this event a memorable day for Maserati owners, especially those lucky enough to own a Quattroporte. We will provide more details as we have them.
One thing that has already been organised by the Maserati Club UK is a technical help area (under a club gazebo) where those owners with older cars, who are looking to continue to maintain their charges at reasonable cost, will be able to discuss issues and obtain advice from skilled Quattroporte technicians from McGrath Maserati and Emblem Motors.
Could I ask you to book your tickets as early as possible. Salon Privé like to know how many cars from each car club are attending the event before they decide on which paddock area they allocate: the more of you there are, the better the location you are given! For Maserati to be allocated one of the most prestigious locations, and especially this year when we will have so many QPs attending, Salon Privé need to see good early sales levels from Maserati owners.
To do this we need loads of Maserati owners to sign up as early as possible and the “secret sauce” here is the Quattroporte V. There are currently 1,402 Quattroporte V’s, UK registered and with a valid MOT, making this model one of the most populous Maseratis on our roads and easily the most numerous of the Quattroporte models! Last year’s Salon Privé Club Trophy by Lockton celebrated V12 Lamborghinis, the South Lawn at Blenheim Palace being covered with Murcielagos! For 2024 we are hoping that Club Privé will extend a similar opportunity to the Maserati Club UK and allow them to celebrate sixty years of the Maserati Quattroporte in appropriate style! Quattroporte V owners: we need you at Blenheim Palace on August 31st.
There is no “official” Maserati Club overnight hotel for those travelling a longer distance, and who may wish to arrive in the vicinity of the event the night before, but some Maserati owners have arranged to stay at the Cartwright Arms Hotel in Aynho. It is a family run hotel of moderate cost and means, but has clean rooms, a decent bar and restaurant and a coaching arch entrance to the car park (which nicely amplifies Maserati exhaust tones as you pass through)! It is only a twenty minute drive the next morning to get to Blenheim Palace.
If you choose to stay the night before then please make your own booking but also let me know. If there are enough of us we can try and organise a dinner for all the Maseratistas staying there, and start the “Quattroparty” the night before!
