Special V12S

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cayman-black

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jonby

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Wednesday 13th May 2015
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ds2000

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Wednesday 13th May 2015
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What the hell did I just read. Seems cheap and what an opportunity!

AdamV12V

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176 months

Wednesday 13th May 2015
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The price must be a typo - I would have thought £100k was more like the right price.

That car was for sale at JCT600, Leeds about a year ago and it was one of the cheapest V12VS's on the market at the time. I went to look at it - it is a cracking car, but the mileage was relatively high for the age at the time and I personally didn't see its press history as a positive thing, so I decided to pass.

IanV12VR

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154 months

Wednesday 13th May 2015
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A very special opportunity indeed. Personally I think that he has underpriced it for a car that has been seen around the World and then converted from LHD to RHD or was it the other way around. I wonder if it is even a real car or just a complete work of fiction wobble

ripley500

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210 months

Wednesday 13th May 2015
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AdamV12V said:
The price must be a typo - I would have thought £100k was more like the right price.

That car was for sale at JCT600, Leeds about a year ago and it was one of the cheapest V12VS's on the market at the time. I went to look at it - it is a cracking car, but the mileage was relatively high for the age at the time and I personally didn't see its press history as a positive thing, so I decided to pass.
I also looked at this at JCT600 - to be fair it was in great condition but I had no idea it was converted from LHD to RHD, sounds like a recipe for trouble! - mileage, press car & colour put me off at the time but the colour has since grown on me somewhat!

IanV12VR

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Wednesday 13th May 2015
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ripley500 said:
I also looked at this at JCT600 - to be fair it was in great condition but I had no idea it was converted from LHD to RHD, sounds like a recipe for trouble! - mileage, press car & colour put me off at the time but the colour has since grown on me somewhat!
I really hope that you don't believe it was converted from LHD to RHD because I will bet 50p that it hasn't. The Yellow Tang car was an early demonstrator for AML in RHD and before the model was released in the States. Perhaps it was converted from RHD to LHD and then back to RHD again. There are a number of clips of a Yellow Tang car in the Staes but IIRC these are all from 2014.

AMDBSNick

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161 months

Wednesday 13th May 2015
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There were 3 of them at Silverstone for the pre release customer drives. Two RHD and one LHD. We had to take it steady so as not to ruin them before the press got their hands on them yes

Jon39

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142 months

Wednesday 13th May 2015
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Let me see.

That would be my own Vantage (half the mileage and 0 to jail in 10 secs.) plus £130,000.

Don't need long to consider that.


Little Donkey

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140 months

Thursday 14th May 2015
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AMDBSNick said:
There were 3 of them at Silverstone for the pre release customer drives. Two RHD and one LHD. We had to take it steady so as not to ruin them before the press got their hands on them yes
I was told that all three of those cars were pre-production and destined for the crusher. I reckon anyone financing that would find themselves with a balloon payment of about £4.80.

LordRowley

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120 months

Thursday 14th May 2015
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Do you know WHERE in Essex the car is based ?

Neil1300r

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177 months

Thursday 14th May 2015
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LordRowley said:
Do you know WHERE in Essex the car is based ?
Its been thrashed within an inch of its life
Its dodgy as hell

Cockernee Mansion?
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jonby

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156 months

Thursday 14th May 2015
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I assume it's KX62 FCA - that registration is still registered to a yellow V12 Vantage registered on 18/12/12

If so, that's the car that Aston took on lots of publicity events such as to Hotel de France in la Chartre just before Le Mans, to Supercardriver at media city before going on to CPOP, etc - it was indeed a UK registered car that was LHD

The car was very much a development car, being worked on whilst it was being shown - I remember chatting to the driver who was telling me amongst other things, for example, that they were still calibrating the gearbox software

I like others am struggling to see why they would convert such a car from LHD to RHD



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Zod

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257 months

Thursday 14th May 2015
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Pretty sure I've driven that car twice! I have video of it on a USB stick they gave me. I'm also pretty sure it was LHD both times.

ds2000

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191 months

Thursday 14th May 2015
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I'm willing to bet 50p with Ian that its not been converted to RHD. Why would AM even bother, the insane amount of work to convert it wouldn't make it remotely justifiable.

mikey k

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215 months

Thursday 14th May 2015
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ds2000 said:
I'm willing to bet 50p with Ian that its not been converted to RHD. Why would AM even bother, the insane amount of work to convert it wouldn't make it remotely justifiable.
Not that much work if it was a UK car but LHD.
IIRC all the electronics looms are std LHD or RHD.
A dash and steering rack swap wouldn't be that much work for the factory rework team.

I saw one of the Tang Yellow cars at JCT600 and Shelsley Walsh
Great colour but this seller is "havin' a Giraffe!"

AMDBSNick

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161 months

Thursday 14th May 2015
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Zod said:
Pretty sure I've driven that car twice! I have video of it on a USB stick they gave me. I'm also pretty sure it was LHD both times.
And I have a USB of me in one of the RHD ones at Silverstone yes

bogie

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271 months

Thursday 14th May 2015
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I must be missing something too, the only thing "special" about that car is the price LOL

how can it be worth more than a new one, built to order to your spec, when its had 30K miles on it a rebuild, maybe a change to RHD, and thrashed around the world by journos and joe public ....crazy LOL

AMDBSNick

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Thursday 14th May 2015
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cayman-black

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Thursday 14th May 2015
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AMDBSNick said:
Wow, its a bargain! Car will be featuring in the only way is Essex soon as well, so buy it now.