Good things come to those who wait
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HBradley said:
Chuffed to bits that you were all able to mark the culmination of such a fabulous project in fine style & that AML made the day so special!
Not sure this would have been possible with any other luxury car brand; for me it just confirms why I love it so much!
Thanks. Agreed on all counts. I mentioned it earlier, but to think, after all the customers and tours he's been involved in since, for Steve Waddingham to walk past a samples board and remember completely unsolicited (I wouldn't have noticed if it wasn't for him) that a sample piece of stitching on the board related to a car I had built more than 5 years ago was incredible. Not sure this would have been possible with any other luxury car brand; for me it just confirms why I love it so much!
It was also great to finally meet Ahmed Munir, who signed off my last roadster. I'm not sure who signed off this car as with the Halo scheme, the plaques have David King & Marek signatures. However I will probably be able to tell when I study the full build records we were presented with yesterday - a quick glance suggests they are pretty comprehensive !!
Going off at a tangent, but when I visit Gaydon, I'm often reminded that to anyone other than those with a marketing/branding type role, they don't see the cars with the same eyes that we customers do. They see the core products upon which editions & variations are based and beyond that, they simply see one customers version of that car or another. So what they don't see is if it's a customer, dealer or factory spec car. They don't see whether someone gets a discount or not, whether there has been a production delay or not, whether the car is kept for 1 week or 20 years, etc. It's very easy (especially for me !) to get caught up in those issues but it isn't what most at the factory are involved in - most at the factory just want to engineer, then make the best cars they can for their customers who they go out of their way to look after and please. Perhaps I should try more to look at things the same way - issues about how many editions there are of the same car, marketing & pricing strategies, etc don't change what those core cars are, how they are made and how good they are
This could get very repetitive with these photos !
here are some of the samples boxes - there is an engine style plaque on the inner cover with chassis number, name, edition number, 'good things come...', then the paint sample moulds have edition number on the front and 'good things come....' on the rear. There are also leather samples, an AMR treadplate plaque, build sheets, leather pouches with thread & painted rotary sample and in my instance, a test run of the Hamsa embroidery and one or two other bits
And on the subject of 'accessories', one of my XL holdall (I actually had 5 pieces made up) with my three colour fob. Some of the other photos show my single colour lime fob
This is the sample board in the factory with the lords red leather diamond stitch I mentioned in a previous post
here are some of the samples boxes - there is an engine style plaque on the inner cover with chassis number, name, edition number, 'good things come...', then the paint sample moulds have edition number on the front and 'good things come....' on the rear. There are also leather samples, an AMR treadplate plaque, build sheets, leather pouches with thread & painted rotary sample and in my instance, a test run of the Hamsa embroidery and one or two other bits
And on the subject of 'accessories', one of my XL holdall (I actually had 5 pieces made up) with my three colour fob. Some of the other photos show my single colour lime fob
This is the sample board in the factory with the lords red leather diamond stitch I mentioned in a previous post
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