Aston Vulcan road car kit!
RML will make your Vulcan road legal if desired (plus Aston has made another video of it)
Anyway, a sufficient number of Vulcan owners have expressed interest in using their cars on the public highway that Aston has announced a collaboration with RML to make them road legal. The conversion process will be carried out entirely by RML, and will take three months.
Obviously it will need the usual road accoutrements - we can't see any indicators here for example - but there will be other tweaks too. These include "checking the emissions of the engine" and crash test simulation, plus a focus on making the cars more usable with different gear ratios and ride height. Because what's the point in a hugely expensive supercar if you can't cruise around at low speed?
According to Autocar, RML will also accommodate "any other bespoke changes requested by the customer." Place your bets as to just how silly those will be...
Andy Palmer has said there was "hesitation" from a few prospective Vulcan customers when it was announced without a road pack; this RML conversion is expected to be taken up by four or five owners. Lucky people!
As for a price, given the work takes three months on a £1.8m car it will surely be many, many thousands. Still, imagine going for a pint of milk - or any other track car for the road cliche you can think of - in an Aston Vulcan...
Watch the video here.
[Source: Autocar]
Buy an epic track specific and track only track car designed only for the track. Track.
Track.
Then.... completely ruin it and make it a horrible road car that will likely be horrendous to drive and unreliable.
Anyway, I'm sure it will be fun.
Especially with the extremely limited steering lock in a car park!
Until I saw & more importantly heard the Vulcan, I never got Aston Martins - good looking, yes, the Bond connection, yes but they always seemed to be old technology, behind the times & just trade on the 2 above (which is enough for some people).
If you want a track car, go by an old DBR9 or 550 GTS. Probably more reliable!
Ducks as he goes up in flames...........
For less than the price of the Vulcan you could have not only a DBR9 but one that had actually won races, at a push the one that won at Le-mans.
The DBR-9 is likely to be at least as fast certainly more highly developed and tested, plus you can run it at all sorts of evens and race series and if you bin it there are plenty of parts and people who can fix it.
http://www.jamesedition.com/stories/cars/le-mans-w... $1.5million for the Le-mans winning DB9R, back in 2011 it may be worth more now.
Or for $170,000 a DBRS9 600bhp, 1280kg
http://www.rmsothebys.com/am15/amelia-island/lots/...
I'd be more concerned by what this thing will look like when it's raised up 6" or without the splitter etc to get over a speed bump. Or how to overcome the huge turning circle....
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