Good things come to those who wait
Discussion
silverspeed said:
Well been to see the car at Nottingham today . Although I say it myself absolutely delighted with the finished car - to see it almost finished after all this time is incredible . Still can’t believe it’s actually arrived . Can’t pick up until 28th May now because I’m away in a couple of weeks and there’s PPF and a few other bits to do . A couple of pictures - more to follow on collection . Good things did actually come to those that wait !
![](https://thumbsnap.com/sc/OPFICL4x.jpg[/img]</a> <a href="https://thumbsnap.com/4e8hsIZh" Target="_blank" rel="nofollow">[img]https://thumbsnap.com/sc/4e8hsIZh.jpg)
Very beautiful. The black instrument panel is very classy. Rappa said:
Ian,
Do tell!!
Congrats. Great story and spec.
Sean
There are three cars in our series and the final one has yet to be delivered. It won’t be too much of a surprise in that there are pictures of it on this page! but it will be a relief for Silverspeed once it has final been delivered Do tell!!
Congrats. Great story and spec.
Sean
IanV12VR said:
Rappa said:
Ian,
Do tell!!
Congrats. Great story and spec.
Sean
There are three cars in our series and the final one has yet to be delivered. It won’t be too much of a surprise in that there are pictures of it on this page! but it will be a relief for Silverspeed once it has final been delivered Do tell!!
Congrats. Great story and spec.
Sean
avinalarf said:
A stunning looking car Ian...all the best.
I've enjoyed reading the journey that you and the other proud owners have taken us on.
All of your dedication to the AM brand and the attention to detail in achieving your dream cars has been astonishing.
Completely agree with avinalarf - it has been a pleasure to follow your journey from idea to realisation. Now go and drive the nuts off the cars. Enjoy !I've enjoyed reading the journey that you and the other proud owners have taken us on.
All of your dedication to the AM brand and the attention to detail in achieving your dream cars has been astonishing.
Well now that Ian has his car and Graham's is not far behind, you'll have noticed from some of the photos that whilst we have a number of Q Bespoke common items across all three cars, they are also very different to each other, both in the obvious (one is based on Halo and two on Zaffre but one with yellow and one with orange, instead of the red standard contrast on AMR Zaffre cars) and in some of the bespoke items
Those who have the patience of a saint may have read all the pages on the spec - to recap in brief, all are manual V12 roadsters with lightweight seats & satin black AMR wheels plus a few 'standard Aston option's' eg metal fuel cap, then via Q:
Foil AMR side strake inlays
GT8/12 CF doorcards
zip up bags to the front of the seats
ONE77 steering wheels (in two of the cars only)
'good things come to those who wait'/edition number/AP signature around the gearstick
CF plates to the area between the armrests and the bottom of the waterfall
Q badges on the front wings
additional glass switches
Q logo to utility (ashtray) lid
Vanquish/GT8 DIM
We also have a couple of 'extras' that aren't quite ready yet
We all have custom painted mirror caps - in my instance, the caps were painted jet black, then a very deep lime stripe was painted on.
Beyond that, we then each added are own unique touches. For mine:
jet black painted windscreen surround
lime hand painted accents to the fins on the CF rear blade that comes with the Ti exhaust
painted lime rotaries
lime gaiter
lime lining to glovebox
lime inserts to ONE 77 steering wheel
custom fobs (one in tan/black/lime, the other in all lime - the standard AMR fobs are black & lime)
custom luggage, in all three colours, with AML, AMR and Q branding - one 4 pc set and one XL holdall
pure black arm pad (believe it or not, the now optional highline console has no arm pad as standard despite it's price)
and that bit I'm most pleased with, the bit most personal to me, which is an embroidered Hamsa you can see on some of the early pages of this thread
The interesting thing is that the bits other people spot (and this car certainly attracts attention) are effectively the big wodges of lime which mean the car turns heads 10x more than my previous Astons. However the custom bits I'm most pleased with, which most people won't even spot, are the black windscreen surround, the additional glass switches, the embroidered hamsa - the small but personal things
However I haven't posted much about my car recently because I've been busy enjoying driving it, which is when the custom elements become pretty meaningless :-)
I've done about 700 or so really fun miles so far but I'm ultra excited with my upcoming Summer, starting tomorrow ! This car is for driving - that's why you buy a 600bhp manual n/a V12 version of an outgoing model - more than anything else, to have fun in it !!!
So....deep breath !
Tomorrow night head down to Folkstone, then on to Germany for the N24 weekend where I'll be meeting up with one of the other 2 owners in their car (fancy joining us Graham ? :-) ) in AMR hospitality
On Sunday, leaving the car in Germany and flying home
2 weeks later, fly back to Germany, pick up the car, drive to Champagne, meet a mate in his DBS who's driving over from Manchester, then spend a couple of days driving down to Valbonne in South of France, staying the night in Reims & Lyon on the way
4 nights in Valbonne at a mate's holiday home, with a few other friends who are flying out to join us
Leave the car in South of France, fly home
Ten days later, fly back to the South of France, pick up the car, spend two days starting on Route Napoleon driving to Le Mans
Meet up with the usual crowd I go to LM24 with and have 4 nights there, following which I drive the car home to Mcr
Then a couple of weeks later, for the first time, all three cars will be getting together for a really special day out !
As I say, can't wait and will be using the car for what it's really meant for - special miles on special roads with good friends !
Those who have the patience of a saint may have read all the pages on the spec - to recap in brief, all are manual V12 roadsters with lightweight seats & satin black AMR wheels plus a few 'standard Aston option's' eg metal fuel cap, then via Q:
Foil AMR side strake inlays
GT8/12 CF doorcards
zip up bags to the front of the seats
ONE77 steering wheels (in two of the cars only)
'good things come to those who wait'/edition number/AP signature around the gearstick
CF plates to the area between the armrests and the bottom of the waterfall
Q badges on the front wings
additional glass switches
Q logo to utility (ashtray) lid
Vanquish/GT8 DIM
We also have a couple of 'extras' that aren't quite ready yet
We all have custom painted mirror caps - in my instance, the caps were painted jet black, then a very deep lime stripe was painted on.
Beyond that, we then each added are own unique touches. For mine:
jet black painted windscreen surround
lime hand painted accents to the fins on the CF rear blade that comes with the Ti exhaust
painted lime rotaries
lime gaiter
lime lining to glovebox
lime inserts to ONE 77 steering wheel
custom fobs (one in tan/black/lime, the other in all lime - the standard AMR fobs are black & lime)
custom luggage, in all three colours, with AML, AMR and Q branding - one 4 pc set and one XL holdall
pure black arm pad (believe it or not, the now optional highline console has no arm pad as standard despite it's price)
and that bit I'm most pleased with, the bit most personal to me, which is an embroidered Hamsa you can see on some of the early pages of this thread
The interesting thing is that the bits other people spot (and this car certainly attracts attention) are effectively the big wodges of lime which mean the car turns heads 10x more than my previous Astons. However the custom bits I'm most pleased with, which most people won't even spot, are the black windscreen surround, the additional glass switches, the embroidered hamsa - the small but personal things
However I haven't posted much about my car recently because I've been busy enjoying driving it, which is when the custom elements become pretty meaningless :-)
I've done about 700 or so really fun miles so far but I'm ultra excited with my upcoming Summer, starting tomorrow ! This car is for driving - that's why you buy a 600bhp manual n/a V12 version of an outgoing model - more than anything else, to have fun in it !!!
So....deep breath !
Tomorrow night head down to Folkstone, then on to Germany for the N24 weekend where I'll be meeting up with one of the other 2 owners in their car (fancy joining us Graham ? :-) ) in AMR hospitality
On Sunday, leaving the car in Germany and flying home
2 weeks later, fly back to Germany, pick up the car, drive to Champagne, meet a mate in his DBS who's driving over from Manchester, then spend a couple of days driving down to Valbonne in South of France, staying the night in Reims & Lyon on the way
4 nights in Valbonne at a mate's holiday home, with a few other friends who are flying out to join us
Leave the car in South of France, fly home
Ten days later, fly back to the South of France, pick up the car, spend two days starting on Route Napoleon driving to Le Mans
Meet up with the usual crowd I go to LM24 with and have 4 nights there, following which I drive the car home to Mcr
Then a couple of weeks later, for the first time, all three cars will be getting together for a really special day out !
As I say, can't wait and will be using the car for what it's really meant for - special miles on special roads with good friends !
avinalarf said:
Tough couple of months Jonby....but as the saying goes .....someone's got to do it ! 
I keep telling myself it's sensible and not that extravagent because I'm only away for 9 or 10 working days, I'm saving miles & time by not driving it to and from Europe for each trip, etc.......but just thinking about the next two months gives me goosebumps ! What a brilliant write up and I'm jealous of those cars and your planned trip.
I couldn't think of anything better than travelling through Europe in an Aston.
Something I will probably do next year, but just in my 4.3 and not country hopping so much.
Congratulations and I thoroughly hope you have a fabulous time.
Dont forget the holiday snaps (Or else we will think you just made it all up.......
)
I couldn't think of anything better than travelling through Europe in an Aston.
Something I will probably do next year, but just in my 4.3 and not country hopping so much.
Congratulations and I thoroughly hope you have a fabulous time.
Dont forget the holiday snaps (Or else we will think you just made it all up.......
)jonby said:
avinalarf said:
Tough couple of months Jonby....but as the saying goes .....someone's got to do it !
I keep telling myself it's sensible and not that extravagent because I'm only away for 9 or 10 working days, I'm saving miles & time by not driving it to and from Europe for each trip, etc.......but just thinking about the next two months gives me goosebumps ! Extravagant doesn't come into it...you've got a great car and you're entitled to enjoy it....life's to short.
I only wish I would take the advise that I've offered you.
Edited by avinalarf on Wednesday 9th May 12:43
Ours is the cheap spec car of the three 
because we didn't go to town quite as much as Graham and Jonby 
I keep on saying less is more 
We also have a few trips lined up in ours and will see Jonby down at the N24 but taking a bit longer to get down there
Graham obviously didn't get the memo 
and then off to Le Mans where will will run across Jonby again, then doing the AMOC Spring Concours (not entering) where we should get to see Graham's car in the flesh for the first time. Then in July the first time we get our three cars together 
So, hopefully some great memories and pictures over the summer.
So our Flugplatz car doesn't feel left out we have a 10 day tour in Spain in September which should round off a fantastic 2018!
because we didn't go to town quite as much as Graham and Jonby I keep on saying less is more We also have a few trips lined up in ours and will see Jonby down at the N24 but taking a bit longer to get down there
Graham obviously didn't get the memo and then off to Le Mans where will will run across Jonby again, then doing the AMOC Spring Concours (not entering) where we should get to see Graham's car in the flesh for the first time. Then in July the first time we get our three cars together So, hopefully some great memories and pictures over the summer.So our Flugplatz car doesn't feel left out we have a 10 day tour in Spain in September which should round off a fantastic 2018!
Gassing Station | Aston Martin | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff