So what have you done with your Aston today?

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paddy328 said:

How goes the other project Bob? And no, i don't mean the cygnet lol

Oi,,,I'll have you know Betzie is a very well behaved member of the Aston Martin Car Room Club, makes her contribution to the Room in a small but profoundly unforgetable way, thank you. As to the MO551E project, progress has over the winter/Spring been slow, mainly because a new production method being adopted which creates the aluminium body panels. The detail has now been finalised and production implemented, the promise of significant build progress starts at the end of this month.


I'm hopeful that Septemberish will see her taking her place in the Car Room Club, offering a salute to that most famous era of Aston Martin Heritage, the DBR1 successes of the late 1950's.

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james-witton said:

A nice evening drive around Derwent Reservoir.

Isn't she just gorgeous,,,,congratulations James, beautiful, beautiful car.

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Yesterday, enjoyed an early morning clear/dry roads drive to Snetterton race circuit, a fabulous drive and a great start to the British GT day. Bought 2 VIP tickets at Ed's Burghley Auction, guests of Generation AMR MacMillan Racing,,,even got roped into helping out with a grid marker board,,,got all excited,,,Lewis H never showed though.

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rossyl said:

Y100 said:

Yesterday, enjoyed an early morning clear/dry roads drive to Snetterton race circuit, a fabulous drive and a great start to the British GT day. Bought 2 VIP tickets at Ed's Burghley Auction, guests of Generation AMR MacMillan Racing,,,even got roped into helping out with a grid marker board,,,got all excited,,,Lewis H never showed though.

Please tell us more about the day! I'd love to hear about it.

Sure, its all right here:

http://www.britishgt.com/

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jazzybee said:

Not today, but last night... I was in London, and my daughter wanted a nice pick of the new car

Nice one.

Where in London is that shop please?

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Gulp,,,Skye for skies it is then!

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One stopped to have a sniff at the heat rising from the bonnet vents, a little rev persuaded her to discontinue .

That was a bit mean,,,she just wanted to say hello and check which herd you were from.

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A Christmas bonus; The weather perfect, road dry and quiet, trickle charger unplugged, lets go Vesuvius,,,,oh it felt sooo good.

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Can't think why but I love this thread.

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IanV12VR said:

Neither can Bob . Seems people have really enjoyed contributing. Great idea which people seem to have enjoyed.

Yes Ian, indeed they/we do,,,,long may it continue.

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The old ones were not too shabby but I can see why you changed.

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paddy328 said:

I've lost count of the amount of tartan blankets and slippers in db9's. Not forgetting saga catalogues.

But not in this one eh Francis,,,

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Sean, Rob, thanks,,,,IMO Volcano red, or any dark red does look awesome on an aston. Except that is, on a DBS, black-black-black has to be the colour, strange that.

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At dusk, unplugged the trickle charger and took Vesuvius for a well overdue 25 mile gallop, utterly fabulous.

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At dusk, unplugged the trickle charger and took Vesuvius for a well overdue 25 mile gallop, utterly fabulous.
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Thank you for your interest,,,there has been an unexpected delay at the paint shop, hoping to have an update pic or two quite soon, patience and good humour, I have to keep reminding myself.

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Vesuvius in at Cambridge for service and hopefully they will locate and cure an annoying 'tick-tick-tick sound that occasionally and only briefly eminates from the transmission at low revs/speed as power is reapplied,,,a truly difficult one for them to sort.

PS: unable to post images recently, getting this message when I try: "The client and server don't support a common SSL protocol version or cipher suite".

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MO55IE at Goodwood, the sun shone and a great day we had.

Have to confess this wasn't today, actually earlier this month (computer now fixed).

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justin220 said:

Thans. I'm the same normally but it was surprisingly warm yesterday

I bet you were surprisingly warm yesterday, mega job, superb.

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I offer just a friendly reminder, the trickle charger, much more than 3 weeks being idle without and you'll wish you had,,, I do, cos I've just had the pleasure and the language was colourful.

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Sunny indeed, dry roads, well close enough,,, Vesuvius reminded me what 580 bhp feels like,,, its niiiice.

Then it was the turn of her stable companion, MO55IE. A touch parky it has to be said but as I arrived back home and parked her alongside the red beast I realised I couldn't say which drive I had preferred more,,,, in different ways they both gave copious amounts of adrenaline rush, just wonderful.