COOL CLASSIC CAR SPOTTERS POST!!! Vol 2
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Cliftonite said:
DickyC said:
nicanary said:
. I've checked - it's a London issue, but according to the site I found it was only issued as XX (2 letters) and it was early 1925. Not important in any way. Just didn't realise there were regs with XX in them. I'll get me coat..........
McAndy said:
Lovely. A widebody, but a 6.3 or not? No rear spoiler and on mobile so I can't blow the image up enough to read badges. 
From the DVLA vehicle enquiry website:
Because it wasn't formerly a model in its own right, if you wanted one from new, a perfect 5.3 litre Virage was built in the factory and signed off, and then pushed across Tickford Street into the Service Department on the other side of the road and stripped down to be modified into a wide body 6.3. Certainly all the wide body cars were intended as 6.3, maybe some kept their 5.3 engines for the same reason folk wanted the V8 coupes that looked for all the world like the Vantage but didn't have the superchargers. Appearances, in other words.
Bit of a crib I suppose with these as they're not really 'spots' but I thought I'd put them in here anyway, at Blyton Park in Lincolnshire yesterday...
A pair of genuine '60s cut down Minisprints...
Very nice early 1275GT still on 10" wheels, I thought they were repainted Speedwell alloys but they're Exactons apparently...
Another early GT still on tens...
A pair of genuine '60s cut down Minisprints...
Very nice early 1275GT still on 10" wheels, I thought they were repainted Speedwell alloys but they're Exactons apparently...
Another early GT still on tens...
DickyC said:
From the DVLA vehicle enquiry website:
Because it wasn't formerly a model in its own right, if you wanted one from new, a perfect 5.3 litre Virage was built in the factory and signed off, and then pushed across Tickford Street into the Service Department on the other side of the road and stripped down to be modified into a wide body 6.3. Certainly all the wide body cars were intended as 6.3, maybe some kept their 5.3 engines for the same reason folk wanted the V8 coupes that looked for all the world like the Vantage but didn't have the superchargers. Appearances, in other words.
Excellent, thanks. I know that some had been kept as widebody 5.3s but I can't remember how many ("Cosmetic"s, mainly Volatnes). To confuse things, they also did some 6.3 narrow bodies (e.g. for Prince Charles).Because it wasn't formerly a model in its own right, if you wanted one from new, a perfect 5.3 litre Virage was built in the factory and signed off, and then pushed across Tickford Street into the Service Department on the other side of the road and stripped down to be modified into a wide body 6.3. Certainly all the wide body cars were intended as 6.3, maybe some kept their 5.3 engines for the same reason folk wanted the V8 coupes that looked for all the world like the Vantage but didn't have the superchargers. Appearances, in other words.
On a side note, I bloomin' love '90s Astons.
McAndy said:
Excellent, thanks. I know that some had been kept as widebody 5.3s but I can't remember how many ("Cosmetic"s, mainly Volatnes). To confuse things, they also did some 6.3 narrow bodies (e.g. for Prince Charles).
On a side note, I bloomin' love '90s Astons.
It's still showing as SORN.On a side note, I bloomin' love '90s Astons.
McAndy said:
On a side note, I bloomin' love '90s Astons.
The Virage and its variants were the last of the coachbuilt Astons. AML carefully worded the blurb for the DB7 to distract attention away from their long standing boast of the cars being hand built and using a unique engine by using phrases like 'hand assembled' and an engine 'unique to the car.'Aston Martin's record of having their own engine up to the DB7's Jaguar-based engine is a real achievement but could use a bit of explanation:
The Bamford & Martin era cars used their own 1.5 litre 4-cylinder engine based, it's believed, on a contemporary Peugeot straight 8.
The Bertelli era cars used the 1.5 litre 4-cylinder engine designed by Renwick & Bertelli who had a car and bought the smouldering ruins of AM to give their car a name.
The Sutherland era cars started with the R&B engine and moved to the 2-litre 4-cylinder engine designed in-house by Claude Hill.
The David Brown era cars started with the 2-litre engine and then DB bought Lagonda and with it the 6-cylinder 2.6 litre engine that was used and developed for all variations of the DB2 up to the DB2/4 MkIII. For the DB4, DB5, DB6 and DBS the 6-cylinder engine designed in-house by Tadek Marek was used in 3.7 and 4.0 litre form. Marek's in-house 5.3 litre V8 was the last uniquely Aston engine and used through several changes of company up to Ford ownership with the Virage and its 6.3 and Vantage incarnations.
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