Tell us something really trivial about your life (Vol 29)
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There is insufficient time. I wouldn't know whether to write about his entrepreneurial, engineering, financial, sales or motor racing sides. All equally fascinating. Can't we just leave him as the mystery underlying the myth?
I don't know if you knew, but their other firm, Battert and Martin, still exists making Pelican Scarers and publishing Drawbridge Owners Self Help books.
I don't know if you knew, but their other firm, Battert and Martin, still exists making Pelican Scarers and publishing Drawbridge Owners Self Help books.
Bobberoo99 said:
I neither own nor have ever been in an Aston Martin, but it's the only sports car Mrs Bobbers would own if we were to win the lottery!!
I took a drive to see Mrs Jim AK in Dads before she was the aforementioned......... She hated it!!!Said it gave her backache & was too noisy.
Even my insiting she would be the coolest teacher in school couldn`t convince her otherwise
Vantage Volante it was. Cream leather, soft top. I wonder where it ended up. Caravans International was run by one Sam Alper who ended up running Chilford Hall Vineyard and Venue near to me. Had some cracking nights there I tell you!
Sadly it’s burnt down, he’s died and it’s all just memories memories.
Now where was I ??
Aha! At home. That’s it.
Sadly it’s burnt down, he’s died and it’s all just memories memories.
Now where was I ??
Aha! At home. That’s it.
"Let's take the Aston," has to be one of the finest phrases in English.
I once owned a matching numbers DB4 that I drove up the drive once and on to a trailer once. Other than that, for the decade I owned it, it was in pieces in the garage and the big loft and the small loft and the shed I bought specially. Blimey there was a lot of it. Other than that, as an enthusiastic young member of the AMOC submitting articles to their magazine and news sheet, I was invited on to the publications committee and drove quite a few. It was a real privilege that I loved, relished and appreciated both at the time and afterwards.
The DB4 that I bought complete in 1981 I sold in bits in 1991 during my divorce. After 20 years in the club I baled out around 2001 so I didn't drive the original Vanquish or anything later. Good memories though.
Most memorable was ten days with a works Vantage in 1995 over a very cold Christmas and New Year. It behaved so well in bloody awful conditions. One of the last of the hand built Astons. What a car. What a privilege.
I once owned a matching numbers DB4 that I drove up the drive once and on to a trailer once. Other than that, for the decade I owned it, it was in pieces in the garage and the big loft and the small loft and the shed I bought specially. Blimey there was a lot of it. Other than that, as an enthusiastic young member of the AMOC submitting articles to their magazine and news sheet, I was invited on to the publications committee and drove quite a few. It was a real privilege that I loved, relished and appreciated both at the time and afterwards.
The DB4 that I bought complete in 1981 I sold in bits in 1991 during my divorce. After 20 years in the club I baled out around 2001 so I didn't drive the original Vanquish or anything later. Good memories though.
Most memorable was ten days with a works Vantage in 1995 over a very cold Christmas and New Year. It behaved so well in bloody awful conditions. One of the last of the hand built Astons. What a car. What a privilege.
My foreman at the SAAB garage had a DBS 6 Vantage ,I think it was called but an automatic.
It was kept at the garage ,so needed to be driven in and out of the workshop start and finish of the day.
Obviously I never got it up to much speed but I thought it was rubbish.
At a later job ,both the bosses had Cosworths ,a 380BHP Sapphire owned by one of them got broken into and so was left
at the units for a bit and also needed to be driven in and out the same.
Everybody had a go in that and well ,what can I say......
One of the bosses is on PH ,now owns a fleet of Pork ,all the good ones with GT in the title.
It was kept at the garage ,so needed to be driven in and out of the workshop start and finish of the day.
Obviously I never got it up to much speed but I thought it was rubbish.
At a later job ,both the bosses had Cosworths ,a 380BHP Sapphire owned by one of them got broken into and so was left
at the units for a bit and also needed to be driven in and out the same.
Everybody had a go in that and well ,what can I say......
One of the bosses is on PH ,now owns a fleet of Pork ,all the good ones with GT in the title.
Pericoloso said:
My foreman at the SAAB garage had a DBS 6 Vantage ,I think it was called but an automatic.
It was kept at the garage ,so needed to be driven in and out of the workshop start and finish of the day.
Obviously I never got it up to much speed but I thought it was rubbish.
An acquired taste did you say?It was kept at the garage ,so needed to be driven in and out of the workshop start and finish of the day.
Obviously I never got it up to much speed but I thought it was rubbish.
They are that. Folks, particularly young motoring journalists, would get into an Aston and expect it to behave like a very fast version of their favourite small car. Bizarre. Er, two tonnes, very powerful, might behave differently. Might seem a bit agricultural. The DB7 felt so modern compared to its big brothers. This despite being based on the fairly ancient XJS.
DBS 6 is a name that grew out of its successor being called the DBS V8. Its correct name is DBS. The V8 was how the car was intended but the engine wasn't ready so the early DBS had the straight six from the DB6. The DBS Vantage was a DBS with single headlights and I think that was about it. The one in The Persuaders was a DBS disguised as a DBS V8.
Cor, don't you go on?
Yes.
V6Pushfit said:
I’ve never been in one either, although back in the day a chauffeur acquaintance drove the Caravans International directors around in one. Beautiful metallic light blue soft top it was, circa 1979. Don’t know what model though.
When they went bust he bought it for £250.
You’re welcome too V6. And DickyCWhen they went bust he bought it for £250.
Storm Marmalade is still brewing in a kitchen in Berkshire.
It's only once a year.
Experience has taught me it doesn't behave like they say in the recipes, which is to check it after fifteen minutes. My method is to leave it for three hours to sweat down. You get less marmalade but it is jolly good. Time consuming but good.
It's only once a year.
Experience has taught me it doesn't behave like they say in the recipes, which is to check it after fifteen minutes. My method is to leave it for three hours to sweat down. You get less marmalade but it is jolly good. Time consuming but good.
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