Excited....Found my DB6
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I had forgotten the number plate of my DB6 that I owned in the mid 1970's.
Looking through some old photos this evening that my wife had unearthed, and I found a couple of photos with the number plate clearly visible.
Pumped it onto Google and there it was.
Advertised as a "barn find",and in a garage/ restorers, not too far from me.
In the photos it didn't look that poorly.
The colour had been changed from Caribbean Pearl to Oyster Grey.
So I'm very excited as I would love to be reunited with her.
Unfortunately the info was about 9 months old and the garage is closed until Monday.
I'm hoping they haven't restored it and sold it on.
Will phone them first thing Monday morning.
Looking through some old photos this evening that my wife had unearthed, and I found a couple of photos with the number plate clearly visible.
Pumped it onto Google and there it was.
Advertised as a "barn find",and in a garage/ restorers, not too far from me.
In the photos it didn't look that poorly.
The colour had been changed from Caribbean Pearl to Oyster Grey.
So I'm very excited as I would love to be reunited with her.
Unfortunately the info was about 9 months old and the garage is closed until Monday.
I'm hoping they haven't restored it and sold it on.
Will phone them first thing Monday morning.
avinalarf said:
I had forgotten the number plate of my DB6 that I owned in the mid 1970's.
Looking through some old photos this evening that my wife had unearthed, and I found a couple of photos with the number plate clearly visible.
Pumped it onto Google and there it was.
Advertised as a "barn find",and in a garage/ restorers, not too far from me.
In the photos it didn't look that poorly.
The colour had been changed from Caribbean Pearl to Oyster Grey.
So I'm very excited as I would love to be reunited with her.
Unfortunately the info was about 9 months old and the garage is closed until Monday.
I'm hoping they haven't restored it and sold it on.
Will phone them first thing Monday morning.
Fantastic - they are beautiful cars but I would say that ! If it's for sale would you be tempted ? Looking through some old photos this evening that my wife had unearthed, and I found a couple of photos with the number plate clearly visible.
Pumped it onto Google and there it was.
Advertised as a "barn find",and in a garage/ restorers, not too far from me.
In the photos it didn't look that poorly.
The colour had been changed from Caribbean Pearl to Oyster Grey.
So I'm very excited as I would love to be reunited with her.
Unfortunately the info was about 9 months old and the garage is closed until Monday.
I'm hoping they haven't restored it and sold it on.
Will phone them first thing Monday morning.
silverspeed said:
Fantastic - they are beautiful cars but I would say that ! If it's for sale would you be tempted ?
Very much so,but I would prefer to buy it as a "barn find" and have the pleasure of having it restored myself to its original colour etc.I remember getting a phone call from a pal of mine who was friendly with a salesman from HR Owens,a Julien Cutts, saying that they had a couple of Astons I should look at.
In the showroom there was a DB5 in the sought after Mettalic grey and the DB6 MK2 in Caribbean Pearl.
The DB5 was £3000 and the DB6 was £3200.
Now remember that this was mid 1970's and that the car market was very different to what it has become.
I was torn to choose between the two,but thought I'd get the DB6 as it was the newer model,Ho Ho ,if only I'd had a crystal ball.
I kept it for 4 years,during which time a drunken nutter came out of a side turning when I was in Brighton for the day and hit the passenger side of the car.
My girlfriend,now wife,was lucky to be alive.
Her door swung open due to the impact and she fell out into the road,just missing being run over by the rear wheels of my Aston.
Police arrived and geezer was done.
Although we were shaken up I managed to secure the passenger door and we drove back to London.
Insurance company wanted to write it off but I insisted I wanted it repaired.
Kept it for another year after that and then changed it in for a bloody Corvette, of all things.
Quite a few cars followed Jags,Rolls and mundane family cars and workhorses,then more recently a 1991Virage and now my DB9V, but that DB6 has a special place in my heart.
So there you have it chaps...story of my life.
avinalarf said:
Very much so,but I would prefer to buy it as a "barn find" and have the pleasure of having it restored myself to its original colour etc.
I remember getting a phone call from a pal of mine who was friendly with a salesman from HR Owens,a Julien Cutts, saying that they had a couple of Astons I should look at.
In the showroom there was a DB5 in the sought after Mettalic grey and the DB6 MK2 in Caribbean Pearl.
The DB5 was £3000 and the DB6 was £3200.
Now remember that this was mid 1970's and that the car market was very different to what it has become.
I was torn to choose between the two,but thought I'd get the DB6 as it was the newer model,Ho Ho ,if only I'd had a crystal ball.
I kept it for 4 years,during which time a drunken nutter came out of a side turning when I was in Brighton for the day and hit the passenger side of the car.
My girlfriend,now wife,was lucky to be alive.
Her door swung open due to the impact and she fell out into the road,just missing being run over by the rear wheels of my Aston.
Police arrived and geezer was done.
Although we were shaken up I managed to secure the passenger door and we drove back to London.
Insurance company wanted to write it off but I insisted I wanted it repaired.
Kept it for another year after that and then changed it in for a bloody Corvette, of all things.
Quite a few cars followed Jags,Rolls and mundane family cars and workhorses,then more recently a 1991Virage and now my DB9V, but that DB6 has a special place in my heart.
So there you have it chaps...story of my life.
Briliant. I hope you get reunited.I remember getting a phone call from a pal of mine who was friendly with a salesman from HR Owens,a Julien Cutts, saying that they had a couple of Astons I should look at.
In the showroom there was a DB5 in the sought after Mettalic grey and the DB6 MK2 in Caribbean Pearl.
The DB5 was £3000 and the DB6 was £3200.
Now remember that this was mid 1970's and that the car market was very different to what it has become.
I was torn to choose between the two,but thought I'd get the DB6 as it was the newer model,Ho Ho ,if only I'd had a crystal ball.
I kept it for 4 years,during which time a drunken nutter came out of a side turning when I was in Brighton for the day and hit the passenger side of the car.
My girlfriend,now wife,was lucky to be alive.
Her door swung open due to the impact and she fell out into the road,just missing being run over by the rear wheels of my Aston.
Police arrived and geezer was done.
Although we were shaken up I managed to secure the passenger door and we drove back to London.
Insurance company wanted to write it off but I insisted I wanted it repaired.
Kept it for another year after that and then changed it in for a bloody Corvette, of all things.
Quite a few cars followed Jags,Rolls and mundane family cars and workhorses,then more recently a 1991Virage and now my DB9V, but that DB6 has a special place in my heart.
So there you have it chaps...story of my life.
avinalarf said:
silverspeed said:
Fantastic - they are beautiful cars but I would say that ! If it's for sale would you be tempted ?
Very much so,but I would prefer to buy it as a "barn find" and have the pleasure of having it restored myself to its original colour etc.I remember getting a phone call from a pal of mine who was friendly with a salesman from HR Owens,a Julien Cutts, saying that they had a couple of Astons I should look at.
In the showroom there was a DB5 in the sought after Mettalic grey and the DB6 MK2 in Caribbean Pearl.
The DB5 was £3000 and the DB6 was £3200.
Now remember that this was mid 1970's and that the car market was very different to what it has become.
I was torn to choose between the two,but thought I'd get the DB6 as it was the newer model,Ho Ho ,if only I'd had a crystal ball.
I kept it for 4 years,during which time a drunken nutter came out of a side turning when I was in Brighton for the day and hit the passenger side of the car.
My girlfriend,now wife,was lucky to be alive.
Her door swung open due to the impact and she fell out into the road,just missing being run over by the rear wheels of my Aston.
Police arrived and geezer was done.
Although we were shaken up I managed to secure the passenger door and we drove back to London.
Insurance company wanted to write it off but I insisted I wanted it repaired.
Kept it for another year after that and then changed it in for a bloody Corvette, of all things.
Quite a few cars followed Jags,Rolls and mundane family cars and workhorses,then more recently a 1991Virage and now my DB9V, but that DB6 has a special place in my heart.
So there you have it chaps...story of my life.
Thank you - I am very lucky indeed. I do love have the stewardship of 1930s Lagondas, the 1969 DB6 and the V12VSR; it has been a long journey but for me it is the people that you meet along the way. As way of example, St Athan was fabulous with such a wide range of cars but everyone being so positive and enthusiastic. I do hope you are able to have "your" DB6 back, such memories they are the real weft & weave of life. Fingers-crossed for you.
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