Questions for Vantage owners from a new Vantage owner

[stompboxx]

So today I picked up my 2008 Vantage Roadster (Black on black with anthracite wheels), and I have a few questions:

1) How have you not lost your licenses yet?
2) Can my Borough take out a restraining order on the car based on noise?
3) Do you - like me - take every opportunity to slow down just to get a bit of space to hoon it again?
4) Is it possible to get bored of the noise (as I'm not sure it is)?

[GlynMo]

stompboxx said:

So today I picked up my 2008 Vantage Roadster (Black on black with anthracite wheels), and I have a few questions:

1) How have you not lost your licenses yet?
2) Can my Borough take out a restraining order on the car based on noise?
3) Do you - like me - take every opportunity to slow down just to get a bit of space to hoon it again?
4) Is it possible to get bored of the noise (as I'm not sure it is)?

1) By carefully choosing where and when to give it some - being in France a lot helps!
2) No, but your neighbours might object (which reminds me - when I bought a Griffith many years ago, I found one just a few months old and, after agreeing to buy it, I asked why the previous owner had sold. Turned out he was a GP and his neighbours complained about the noise at all times of the night when he was on call! His loss, my gain!)
3) Of course not
4) Erm...... no

[don4l]

stompboxx said:

So today I picked up my 2008 Vantage Roadster (Black on black with anthracite wheels), and I have a few questions:

1) How have you not lost your licenses yet?
2) Can my Borough take out a restraining order on the car based on noise?
3) Do you - like me - take every opportunity to slow down just to get a bit of space to hoon it again?
4) Is it possible to get bored of the noise (as I'm not sure it is)?

I've had the DB9 for 20 months. Wonderful questions.

1) Luck.
2) Most people LOVE the noise
3) Yes.
4) No... and I am much better at making noise than I was 20 months ago.


I've been out on a few local PH hoons. I would highly recommend the experience.

Don
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[Stuart Dickinson]

stompboxx said:

So today I picked up my 2008 Vantage Roadster (Black on black with anthracite wheels), and I have a few questions:

1) How have you not lost your licenses yet?
2) Can my Borough take out a restraining order on the car based on noise?
3) Do you - like me - take every opportunity to slow down just to get a bit of space to hoon it again?
4) Is it possible to get bored of the noise (as I'm not sure it is)?

1) Friendly and understanding Police officers.
2) Take the Borough noise complaints person out for a spin
3) Yes. Repeatedly.
4) No.

[lady topaz]

stompboxx said:

So today I picked up my 2008 Vantage Roadster (Black on black with anthracite wheels), and I have a few questions:

1) How have you not lost your licenses yet?
2) Can my Borough take out a restraining order on the car based on noise?
3) Do you - like me - take every opportunity to slow down just to get a bit of space to hoon it again?
4) Is it possible to get bored of the noise (as I'm not sure it is)?

1) Sometimes helps being female and fluttering your eyes.

2) Not unless they have no taste for sublime music to the ears.

3) Glad its not only me

4) Nooooooo, but I still prefer to call it music or "sound".

Glad to see you are enjoying the car as much as the rest of us.

Di

[Neil1300R]

stompboxx said:

So today I picked up my 2008 Vantage Roadster (Black on black with anthracite wheels), and I have a few questions:

1) How have you not lost your licenses yet?
2) Can my Borough take out a restraining order on the car based on noise?
3) Do you - like me - take every opportunity to slow down just to get a bit of space to hoon it again?
4) Is it possible to get bored of the noise (as I'm not sure it is)?

1) Easy (NOT) - drive it in a lower car (higher revs) around towns / speed limits - lets everyone else enjoy the sound and makes you think a bit more about the speed. NSL roads are difficult though- must practice restraint, must practice restraint...
2) Everyone loves an Aston - especially the sound!
3) Is it childish to do this EVERY time there is a bridge / tunnel
4) Noise - any unwanted sound or signal - its NOT unwanted However, after a few months of ownership you'll find yourself thinking about exhaust changes to 'enhance' the sound

[michael gould]

stompboxx said:

So today I picked up my 2008 Vantage Roadster (Black on black with anthracite wheels), and I have a few questions:

1) How have you not lost your licenses yet?
2) Can my Borough take out a restraining order on the car based on noise?
3) Do you - like me - take every opportunity to slow down just to get a bit of space to hoon it again?
4) Is it possible to get bored of the noise (as I'm not sure it is)?

1. bribary
2. only if you live in a Labour controlled borough
3. yes
4. no

Enjoy enjoy enjoy

[tuscaneer]

stompboxx said:

So today I picked up my 2008 Vantage Roadster (Black on black with anthracite wheels), and I have a few questions:

1) How have you not lost your licenses yet?
2) Can my Borough take out a restraining order on the car based on noise?
3) Do you - like me - take every opportunity to slow down just to get a bit of space to hoon it again?
4) Is it possible to get bored of the noise (as I'm not sure it is)?

1)pleading my case in court
2)if they can then that's me stuffed!
3)always
4)not yet in 4 1/2 years of aston ownership

i'm starting to like you,impeccable taste in music and now it appears in horseless carriages as well!!

[GlynMo]

tuscaneer said:

i'm starting to like you,impeccable taste in music and now it appears in horseless carriages as well!!

Time for a new thread - I'm interested in what, for you, constitutes 'impeccable taste in music'??

[tuscaneer]

GlynMo said:

tuscaneer said:

i'm starting to like you,impeccable taste in music and now it appears in horseless carriages as well!!

Time for a new thread - I'm interested in what, for you, constitutes 'impeccable taste in music'??

if you shoot over to the music thread our friend here has uploaded some of his own music.i personally was very impressed and we both seem to have a common interest in very off beat obscure(to most at least)music.

[stompboxx]

tuscaneer said:

i'm starting to like you,impeccable taste in music and now it appears in horseless carriages as well!!

If you tell me you support Liverpool we'll probably have to start going out!! ;-)

[tuscaneer]

stompboxx said:

tuscaneer said:

i'm starting to like you,impeccable taste in music and now it appears in horseless carriages as well!!

If you tell me you support Liverpool we'll probably have to start going out!! ;-)

LIVERPOOL!!!!!!! that's a dirty word in our house!!