RE: The Ogle Aston Martin: Under the Hammer

[Burnham]

jamespink said:

burningdinos said:

"The indicators flow outwards (rather like the current Audi A8)"

Didn't the Mustang had something like that in the mid-sixties?

Burnham said:

'Being the 1970s, nothing could be straightforward so, naturally, this was a single, sideways-facing seat'

Ey?

Something like this. It does looks very odd.

Edited to add the pictures.

Edited by burningdinos on Thursday 8th October 11:06

Rather than make two utterly useless front facing seats, it provides one, but with enough room for legs as well (unlike most Audi coupes). Not so hot in a crash me thinks...

Thanks both, I couldn't get my head round it.

[wessbee]

burningdinos said:

Z28DUNC said:

The Cougar and Thunderbird had flashing sequential lights. Don't think the Mustang ever had them.

Ah, fine. I knew it was some 60's Ford model but wasn't sure which one so the Mustang made sense. Just to show it's nothing new or revolutionary, although Audi marketing still try to make believe it's all the rage

67-68 Shelby Mustangs had the T-Bird sequential lights fitted

[matbat]

Here's the rear seat in slightly better condition....

[RoverP6B]

I might take the gold Aston, as long as its restoration included a respray in Dubonnet Rosso.

The Broadspeed Jag is simply the epitome of cool. A race-bred brute for the road.

[Corranga]

That Jag is, and always was a glorious looking thing. Easily my favourite of the old XJs. I suspect you'll need bigger pockets to buy it than estimates, and even bigger still to make something of it, but oh what a thing

[RoverP6B]

Yeah, I'd be ringing up Knowles-Wilkins at Greenham Common to get their input so one could have at least a rough idea what might need doing to it, then send it their way upon acquisition...

[P4ROT]

I was born in '89 and I still find these hugely desirable - particularly the Avengers car...

[andyps]

I just looked to see if the TR7 from The New Avengers is still around - it doesn't appear to have been scrapped officially but the tax was due in 1990. I used to see it regularly in the late seventies/early eighties.

No record at all of the XJS so that must have been scrapped.

[Andy390]

Re the ogle Aston. TVR tried that style too, and they gave up on it too!
definitely the XJ for me.!

[Chris Rees]

Well Steed's Jag went for £62K in the end.

And the works V8 prototype made £65K

[richardbrown5]

Just seen that the Jag XJ-C V12 sold for £62,000 – some £50,000 over initial estimates. Blimey.

[TA14]

richardbrown5 said:

Just seen that the Jag XJ-C V12 sold for £62,000 – some £50,000 over initial estimates. Blimey.

He had to hand over £71K to get the car.

[alsem]

jamespink said:

Rather than make two utterly useless front facing seats, it provides one, but with enough room for legs as well (unlike most Audi coupes). Not so hot in a crash me thinks...

Well.. once A friend was sitting sideways like that in the back of a Aston Martin DB7 convertible and me in the passenger seat, the outdated suspension setup from a XJS in combination with a modern turbo engine put us somewhere in a ditch.
Counting who got the most bruises and cuts, driver got most, then passenger seat, and sideways facing rear passenger practically unharmed!

[RoverP6B]

Turbo DB7? There was never a factory turbo car... they originally used the supercharged 4-litre AJ-6 from the X300 XJR, then the N/A Duratec V12.

[alsem]

Supercharged indeed, my bad

[TA14]

alsem said:

Supercharged indeed, my bad

Easy mistake. If we're splitting hairs P6B is incorrect as well since Jag kept the 4.0 for themselves, Aston had to make do with the smaller capacity 3.2

[RoverP6B]

Oops, should have remembered that, smallest-engined Aston since the DB MkIII?

[LotusOmega375D]

The comment about the DB7's XJ-S suspension and (supercharged) 6 cylinder engine resulting in an unexpected excursion into a ditch is one I am wholly familiar with. I was a passenger in one (auto FHC) when exactly the same thing happened: we weren't even going all that quickly, but it's the closest I've ever been to meeting my maker so far. It ended up 6ft down the ditch and on it's side: had it caught fire, we'd have been cremated in full view of my brother and girlfriend (now wife), who were following in the car behind.

[RoverP6B]

So what happened? The XJ-S wasn't exactly noted as a widowmaker, even with the V12.