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Went to Basingstoke last weekend to visit my sister. Parked my DB9 on her driveway and the next morning found the bonnet badge missing. Reported it to the police and had a nice officer come to take a statement within a couple of hours (was told it was a priority as there were many vehicle thefts in the area). Anyway, the next day I got a call from the officer to inform me that I wasn't the only one that had my badge stolen that night. Ended up replacing it with a black badge that I find looks much nicer with the tungsten grey.
Your thoughts?
Your thoughts?
Edited by bloodfire on Sunday 17th November 23:02
RichB said:
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h getting the badge stolen. Isn't the current Aston Martin badge British Racing Green?
I think it depends on which engine you have. I remember being told on the factory tour that the V8's and lower output (DB9) engines had the green badge and 510 bhp V12's have the black one. Zagato have a red one. h getting the badge stolen. Isn't the current Aston Martin badge British Racing Green?I didn't realise that. I assumed the badge you see on their materials was the only one but now you mention it I do recollect seeing a black one on the One-77. My one is black and cream with David Brown written across the top.
Amusingly I was at the NEC Classic Car Show on Friday and some people were looking at a DBR1 copy. I overheard one of the chaps say, "Why does the badge say David Brown?"
The other chap replied, "Because it's a copy and they can't use a real Aston Martin badge on it, David Brown probably makes them."
I thought it was funny anyway!
But it did surprise me that at a classic car show you had two people who had never heard of David Brown.
Amusingly I was at the NEC Classic Car Show on Friday and some people were looking at a DBR1 copy. I overheard one of the chaps say, "Why does the badge say David Brown?"
The other chap replied, "Because it's a copy and they can't use a real Aston Martin badge on it, David Brown probably makes them."
I thought it was funny anyway!
But it did surprise me that at a classic car show you had two people who had never heard of David Brown. RichB said:
... But it did surprise me that at a classic car show you had two people who had never heard of David Brown.
Might they have been a couple of 30 year olds?Born about 1983, a quarter of a century after David Brown built your own car.
Time certainly flies.
They could have read more history of course.
Jon39 said:
Might they have been a couple of 30 year olds?
Born about 1983, a quarter of a century after David Brown built your own car.
Time certainly flies. They could have read more history of course.
Maybe, I think most people remotely interested in cars wonder what the DB stands for in DB5 ... Don't they? Born about 1983, a quarter of a century after David Brown built your own car.
Time certainly flies. They could have read more history of course.
RichB said:
Jon39 said:
Might they have been a couple of 30 year olds?
Born about 1983, a quarter of a century after David Brown built your own car.
Time certainly flies. They could have read more history of course.
Maybe, I think most people remotely interested in cars wonder what the DB stands for in DB5 ... Don't they? Born about 1983, a quarter of a century after David Brown built your own car.
Time certainly flies. They could have read more history of course.
But I bet there are plenty of Ferrari fans who don't know why the Enzo is named as it is and how many 458 owners know of the history of the first two of the 3 digits relating to capacity (or capacity per cylinder in the instance of their V12s IIRC) ?
As I say, sad but not particularly surprising
jonby said:
Sadly I suspect not. In fairness, lots of model numbers have no meaning behind them - why 'S' class, '3' series, etc ? So people have a reason to assume it's not necessarily relating to anything
But I bet there are plenty of Ferrari fans who don't know why the Enzo is named as it is and how many 458 owners know of the history of the first two of the 3 digits relating to capacity (or capacity per cylinder in the instance of their V12s IIRC) ?
As I say, sad but not particularly surprising
In some of the v12 Ferraris it is one digit for displacement followed by twelve (512, 612). In the v8 cars it is mainly a 2-digit displacement followed by an eight (308, 328, 348, 458) but went weird with the 355 where the last three refers to the number of valves per cylinder. They went wonky with some cars such as 360, 430, and 599 where all 3 digits refer to the displacement. But I bet there are plenty of Ferrari fans who don't know why the Enzo is named as it is and how many 458 owners know of the history of the first two of the 3 digits relating to capacity (or capacity per cylinder in the instance of their V12s IIRC) ?
As I say, sad but not particularly surprising
Then of course there is the meaning of the suffixes: GTB, GTS, GTO, etc.
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