The making of my Cobalt Blue V12 Vantage Roadster

[Alwin]

My wife and I got invited to witness the creation of my V12 Vantage Roadster at the factory in Gaydon.
And amazingly, I was allowed to take pictures! (provided that I limited my photos to my own car).

The plan was that we would witness “The Marriage”, but the production got delayed and we missed it. But still, we had an amazing visit. Two visits actually, as we were allowed to come back a day later to see more.



A friendly engineer who was working on my drive train let me tighten some bolts, then my wife and I got to sign the drive train :-)





What an amazing day! My wife and I couldn’t stop smiling all the way back to Amsterdam.
Now we really can’t wait for delivery of our roaring roadster. Shouldn’t take too long now…

The full story and lots of factory floor photos are here:
http://www.aston-martin.com/2012/10/19/the-making-...

[CPBRI]

[outofstepuk]

very very jealous

[ds2000]

This is me to the end of the day

Looks like the over sprayed onto the bin in your first pic

[nw28840]

Heel heel mooi, gefeliciteerd !

I knew all those years of living in Holland would be useful

[Alwin]

ds2000 said:

Looks like the over sprayed onto the bin in your first pic

I noticed that too :-)

[Lunablack]

Alwin said:

I noticed that too :-)

What a day...... Must have been great....

Not quite in the same league, but I was lucky enough to see my Triumph Tiger on the production line, back in 1994, and it was a great feeling

[DB9VolanteDriver]

It's great to have photos of your car being built at the factory. Hopefully the other photos that they will be sending you provide even more memories for your photo album.

Myself, I've got a complete photo record of my car being built, from initial body assembly, painting, dashboard construction, leather stitching, seat & door fitting to car, drivetrain assembly, final inspection, etc. etc. (about 90 photos or so).

These were taken by the factory as a courtesy and provided on a CD. I look at them often; I'm sure you will too.

[Retman]

That's some kit car you're building in your garage there Alwin . Hope the engineer discretely checked those bolts once you left!. Can't wait to see the end result.

[johng39]

Awesome day. Hope you are both well Alwin?

Shame they can't slip some proper exhaust manifolds on for you

[Alwin]

It just rolled off the production line a few minutes ago!

[The Game]

Very nice

[johng39]

So is that the V12V for when it is cold, raining or a track day & the R for when it is warm and sunny OR is it a his an her's V12V thing

[Lunablack]

Great colour.....would you like me to deliver it for you..??

[Alwin]

johng39 said:

So is that the V12V for when it is cold, raining or a track day & the R for when it is warm and sunny OR is it a his an her's V12V thing

Red days, blue days... we'll see.
But this will definitely be our choice on sunny days :-)

[A Good Name]

That is stunning, great choice.

[spice]

my cocks gone hard

[ds2000]

Thats stunning.... and mine is just behind it

[DB9 Ian P]

Wonder where it was hiding yesterday when I was there. Knew you had been there the day before and was keeping a good look out for it. I would have noticed it because it looks fantastic.

[LordBretSinclair]

- 'nuff said