Open at your own risk, distressing pics inside

[paddy328]

I hope the owner is ok and hope it was nobody on here.

[Impasse]

Oh dear. That's quite sad to see.

[williamp]

As long as nobody was hurt, no problem. It will be repaired..er... restored. I hear silver birch is out of fashion. Maybe fiesta red this time??

[IanV12VR]

Agree, provided no one injured then it will be better than new pretty soon provided they have not skimped on insurance cover. They are now so valuable little likelihood of it being written off. Sad to see though

[vankypanky]

more distressing though is to have only 14% battery left on your phone

[Quinny]

I've seen that car a number of times travelling the A483

[divetheworld]

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greate...

Glad the occupants weren't too badly injured. I'm sure 3DC will be back on its wire wheels soon enough, contrary to the opinion of Manchester's police spokesman.

[Quinny]

Blimey.....according to the article, it appears it's a DB5 as driven by "Bond" in the "Bond" films:rolletyes:

[gowmonster]

passenger compartment looks surprisingly intact, in fact it looks to have crumpled like a modern car DB ahead of it's time?

complete write off for a million pound car according to the article, really? i doubt it would cost that much to repair!

[IanV12VR]

Y100 said:

Too subtle for me vankypanky.

I will leave Russell to come back on that but of more concern to me was how quickly the battery life was dropping - 2% in three minute. He would have been out of battery by 5:00pm

[ds2000]

I'm more upset it was involved with an Astra, hardly a blaze of glory for the old girl

[hman]

looks like a lot of damage - but certainly repairable in my amateur opinion.

was it out on hire or was the owner driving it?

[woolders]

gowmonster said:

passenger compartment looks surprisingly intact, in fact it looks to have crumpled like a modern car DB ahead of it's time?

complete write off for a million pound car according to the article, really? i doubt it would cost that much to repair!

Have you checked iin at Works Service recently?!

[RobDown]

I think Works are currently charging GBP375k (+VAT) as the standard price for a full restoration job.

The car isn't worth a million, that's just lazy journalism, with a Works restoration done on it you would probably be looking at more like £700k in today's money - unless its got some special history that I'm not aware of.

So it will certainly get restored, albeit it will potentially lose a lot of originality in the process, which is a shame.

I know it sounds trite, but the main thing is that it sounds like the occupants are ok. The car can be restored, people can't.