For The Love of Cars

[anonymous-user]

Did they just say £85K ?? For a Vantage? Surely some mistake no??

[JonRB]

So they visit the Aston Martin Owners Club and every single person interviewed says originality is king, so naturally they ignore all this.

[KTF]

JonRB said:

So they visit the Aston Martin Owners Club and every single person interviewed says originality is king, so naturally they ignore all this.

It's like the apprentice candidates ignoring the focus groups.

"All those people can't be right so let's go off on a crazy tangent instead."

[RichB]

nicanary said:

That film clip of the racer nudging straw bales was a Lagonda. Just saying.

I switched into the program 10 mins late so must have missed that, what was it the 1950s Lagonda V12? Anyway some really nice footage of the Le Mans DBR1s

[snuffy]

Baron Greenback said:

Hi

snuffy said:

Baron Greenback said:

£38k! mmm ouch!

And they said the average prices was around £50k. So no profit to be made at all, but a huge loss to be had then.

And a new gearbox not tweaked engine on top of that!

And £6k for the leather, never mind what it costs to turn them into seats !

And 324 hours for the engine tuning/rebuild so far.

[nicanary]

JonRB said:

So they visit the Aston Martin Owners Club and every single person interviewed says originality is king, so naturally they ignore all this.

My daughter, who's not really a PH, just noticed this and remarked on it. And the red hide sounds ste - why not ivory piped with green?

[JonRB]

I don't understand why they say they can't respray the shell until the engine is in.

[ndtman]

Laurel Green said:

What was that body shell in the background just then?

http://www.evanta.co.uk/EvantaGT.html#all

[snuffy]

"All the acceleration of a 1 litre Corsa" said Mr Philip Glenister.

So nothing has changed in 40 years then.

[Butter Face]

I think it will look ace, but if the head of the Aston owners club said 'originality is key' etc, I'd be thinking 'oh bugger, maybe we should make it as original as possible!'

Brave!

[2.5pi]

I love that colour combo

[KTF]

Hang on, 6k hours in labour and 50k in parts? Have happened to the £85k mentioned earlier?

[SydneyBridge]

Looks stunning..
where is the hanger ?

[RichB]

nicanary said:

JonRB said:

So they visit the Aston Martin Owners Club and every single person interviewed says originality is king, so naturally they ignore all this.

My daughter, who's not really a PH, just noticed this and remarked on it. And the red hide sounds ste - why not ivory piped with green?

Tend to agree, Magnolia leather was very 70s, leave out the green piping though

[FourWheelDrift]

SydneyBridge said:

Looks stunning..
where is the hanger ?

Bruntingthorpe

[stuartmmcfc]

I love the red interior.
Guess I'm one of the smaller group with the most money

[Shaw Tarse]

2.5pi said:

I love that colour combo

I'd have been tempted to order that when new.

[Butter Face]

It does look superb. I'd buy it.

[KTF]

The auctioneer was never going to say "oh st boys, you really ballsed up here" with a camera in his face was he.

[SydneyBridge]

glad the auction is not at end of series