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Yes, I'm very grateful to AM for taking the time to do this.
FWIW, I put in my request via the customer link on the AM website as suggested by some here. That was 2 days ago and today the sales manager at my dealer forwarded me an email the factory sent him with the attached pictures. Impressive. I half expected that my message would go unanswered.
Now I have to figure out who to bribe for them to "accidentally" put the engine of the V12VS behind mine in the line into my car instead.
BTW When I showed the build pics to a friend, he said: "You should see if they could just ship you the parts and you'll put it together to save some money
".
I think he's right. They should just save themselves the work. After all, as soon as I get it home, I'm just going to take it apart anyway.
FWIW, I put in my request via the customer link on the AM website as suggested by some here. That was 2 days ago and today the sales manager at my dealer forwarded me an email the factory sent him with the attached pictures. Impressive. I half expected that my message would go unanswered.
Now I have to figure out who to bribe for them to "accidentally" put the engine of the V12VS behind mine in the line into my car instead.
BTW When I showed the build pics to a friend, he said: "You should see if they could just ship you the parts and you'll put it together to save some money
". I think he's right. They should just save themselves the work. After all, as soon as I get it home, I'm just going to take it apart anyway.
Edited by KarlFranz on Wednesday 23 July 05:11
The interior is going to have black Alcantara inserts in the seats and door cards with yellow accent stripes and stitching to match some of the exterior yellow accents. You can already see some of the yellow stitching in the pics above. It'll be a little different from your typical silver/grey/black Vantage with obsidian interior that's for sure.
hashluck said:
AdamV12V said:
Huh, why?
FMVSS 214 side impact rules for the USA. Vantage does not pass. AM trying to get an exemption but no joy yet.
Phil74891 said:
Love the wheels. I see it's the older style grille rather than the UK N430 version. Great colour too.
Not sure I know what you mean. The grille is the same as on the N430. My car will be getting the standard grille replaced with the genuine V12VS carbon fiber grille when it goes through "Q" though. 
V8V Pete said:
Is it having anything else done whilst it's at Q? Are you going for the yellow bits or not? Which is the first bit that will get pulled off and wrapped when it gets to the other side of the pond? The suspense would be killing me. I was bad enough waiting the 10 days whilst my pre-owned V8V was being prepped and this is on an entirely different level.
Just to be clear, I am Q. The only reason it wasn't a 10-minute job for William was because he was changing the front bumper from the older style which requires new wheel well liners, undertray, and the new bumper itself. Changing the grille is a trivial task.
That said, taking apart and putting back together the bodywork on these cars does not scare me. It's actually pretty easy.
That said, taking apart and putting back together the bodywork on these cars does not scare me. It's actually pretty easy.
Edited by KarlFranz on Friday 25th July 15:42
W1111AM said:
Has she sailed yet KF 
?
The wait is agonizing. I went to the dealer on Saturday and out front sat a shiny black new GT - the first one they have received. So I had them check the status on mine and it said it was sitting at the distribution center and won't arrive to the dealership until September 22 which means it hasn't even set sail yet even though it was finished a couple of weeks ago. ?Gassing Station | Aston Martin | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff