RE: Aston Vanquish 25 by CALLUM revealed

[skwdenyer]

Rogue86 said:

I should probably add that I was working there when the car was designed, built and put into the press - they were my images and I shot all 4 cars that were built at the time (one prototype, one coupe, one blue ragtop and one silver).

I'm not sure what information about the deals is public so I won't say too much on that, but even from his own IG you can see there is a degree of 'smoke and mirrors' with cars being resprayed/colour-changed in PS etc. The only deal I know of to sell a car initially fell through (it was a silver ragtop), though I havent seen the car appear online anywhere since so maybe it has since. The last image I saw of the car did appear to be in his lockup though...I wouldn't take everything you read online as being gospel and certainly financially, the project itself was not profitable to anyone but AML as they were very costly to build. Obviously it did gain some PR for Kahn though, which is difficult to put a price on!

Edit - I'm also not convinced that car is the prototype unless it has had extensive work done since. The prototype only had dual exhausts, a much smaller ducktail spoiler and a different wheel finish. That said it does have the red pin-striping inside which wasn't on the others.

Edited by Rogue86 on Tuesday 3rd September 16:25

Interesting, thanks. I certainly don't believe everything I read online It seemed pretty clear that the reason the car was doing the press rounds a while back was because the sales weren't happening. The "Kahn myth" up to then seemed to be that they had no need to advertise...

[VR6 Eug]

£550,000!....you could be a good car for that money

[swisstoni]

It’s a wonder there are any straight Vanquishes about the number of people screwing around with them.

[aaron_2000]

Rogue86 said:

Cheib said:

But there are probably 30 to 40 Aston collectors who want one of everything....so you are almost guaranteed to be able to sell these.

You say that, but I don't think Kahn sold either of the Vengeance cars that were built...

Kahn is just tacky st built for the top dogs in the heroin game, care has actually gone into this one, and I'd imagine his name also carries some weight with it too.

[Venturist]

swisstoni said:

It’s a wonder there are any straight Vanquishes about the number of people screwing around with them.

Never heard of any other Vanquish tweaks except Works’s manual conversion?

[fernando the frog]

change the colour of the interior
different less dated steering wheel
remove the crappy white writing on the sidewalls
piano black or wood instead of tacky looking carbon fibre
and the stupid writing on the exhausts

then it'd look great imo

[jnoiles]

vtecyo said:

Looks like something from Kahn Designs.

Yes but have you seen current Astons? They all look like the mid 2000's tasteful Astons that have been Khaned or Mansoryd.

[jnoiles]

Filibuster said:

For £100k you can buy this beautiful, manual Vanquish from Aston works: https://www.classicdriver.com/en/car/aston-martin/...

https://www.classicdriver.com/sites/default/files/styles/colorbox/public/cars_images/4r2a9215.jpg?itok=qcB9pyJS

What's going on atop the dash, passenger side in this pic?

[gigglebug]

jnoiles said:

https://www.classicdriver.com/sites/default/files/...

What's going on atop the dash, passenger side in this pic?

Retrofitted lead for either a phone or satnav would be my guess, satnav more likely with the shape of the connector and it's position in the car?

Edited by gigglebug on Wednesday 4th September 17:38

[Rogue86]

aaron_2000 said:

Kahn is just tacky st built for the top dogs in the heroin game, care has actually gone into this one, and I'd imagine his name also carries some weight with it too.

Subjective obviously, but I think most people's distaste with the designs is to do with their opinion of the man himself rather than the actual aesthetics of the car. In that particular market, I'd say certainly the more recent designs are definitely more tasteful than anything made by Overfinch or their other competitors. In fact most of the design lads who were there when I was now hold jobs for OE companies, most of them JLR SVO. They are very, very good at what they do.

As above, its a reflection of the market itself. Most modern AML cars are anything but subtle.

[aaron_2000]

Rogue86 said:

aaron_2000 said:

Kahn is just tacky st built for the top dogs in the heroin game, care has actually gone into this one, and I'd imagine his name also carries some weight with it too.

Subjective obviously, but I think most people's distaste with the designs is to do with their opinion of the man himself rather than the actual aesthetics of the car. In that particular market, I'd say certainly the more recent designs are definitely more tasteful than anything made by Overfinch or their other competitors. In fact most of the design lads who were there when I was now hold jobs for OE companies, most of them JLR SVO. They are very, very good at what they do.

As above, its a reflection of the market itself. Most modern AML cars are anything but subtle.

My distaste of the designs isn't of him, it's of his distasteful designs. I find Overfinch tacky too, the L322's they did were pretty nice though. I find cars on the whole are overstyled and tacky.

[Rogue86]

aaron_2000 said:

My distaste of the designs isn't of him, it's of his distasteful designs. I find Overfinch tacky too, the L322's they did were pretty nice though. I find cars on the whole are overstyled and tacky.

Ill pass thanks!

[skwdenyer]

Rogue86 said:

aaron_2000 said:

My distaste of the designs isn't of him, it's of his distasteful designs. I find Overfinch tacky too, the L322's they did were pretty nice though. I find cars on the whole are overstyled and tacky.

Ill pass thanks!

A 570ci please Anything later is just a bit gauche...

[aaron_2000]

Rogue86 said:

aaron_2000 said:

My distaste of the designs isn't of him, it's of his distasteful designs. I find Overfinch tacky too, the L322's they did were pretty nice though. I find cars on the whole are overstyled and tacky.

Ill pass thanks!

Not the facelift, the earliest L322's they did with the Momo Arrowesque wheels.

[Cheib]

This was at the Bicester Sunday Scramble this morning....love the original Vanquish and really didn’t think this worked. Was standing looking at and discussing it it with a friend (neither of us thought it was anything like what is effectively a £700k car) and then realised Ian Callum was standing next to us!

[mike-v2tmf]

Soon to be seen driven by a footballer..............badly , so there goes any residuals

[e600]

Not for me, it looks like it’s crashed into a posh Halfords.