Your first Aston Martin
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vpr said:
We plucked up the courage to step inside at one point, we were immediately turned around and kicked out. Shocking behaviour.
Shocking behaviour indeed. Maybe central London showroom versus out of town showroom. I have seen the guys at HWM welcome a group of passing schoolkids into the showroom. They are your future customers.pschlute said:
I own a 2005 DB9, bought in 2010. The only Aston I have owned.
When I was 11 I would watch the TV show The Persuaders in which Roger Moore drove a DBS V8. When the show was over I would cycle down the road to my local garage HW Motors in Walton on Thames and press my nose to the windows. I dreamed of driving an Aston one day. So it was quite an event for me when around 40 years later I found myself test driving , buying, and driving away in a DB9 from the very same garage still located in the same spot. My 11 year old self was with me that day, it was quite emotional.
This is brilliant!When I was 11 I would watch the TV show The Persuaders in which Roger Moore drove a DBS V8. When the show was over I would cycle down the road to my local garage HW Motors in Walton on Thames and press my nose to the windows. I dreamed of driving an Aston one day. So it was quite an event for me when around 40 years later I found myself test driving , buying, and driving away in a DB9 from the very same garage still located in the same spot. My 11 year old self was with me that day, it was quite emotional.
pschlute said:
vpr said:
We plucked up the courage to step inside at one point, we were immediately turned around and kicked out. Shocking behaviour.
Shocking behaviour indeed. Maybe central London showroom versus out of town showroom. I have seen the guys at HWM welcome a group of passing schoolkids into the showroom. They are your future customers.
1973 V8 S3 my first, only and current Aston bought in 1982. In that year Aston Martin (via Robin Hamilton and Richard Williams) went back to Le Mans with the Nimrod. This was reported on the TV and that was my first exposure to Aston Martin. Suitably inspired, a few months later my Mk2 Escort was gone and the V8 became my only means of transport.
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Then
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vpr said:
As a nipper in the 70’s I always wanted an Aston. My poster car, the V8’s.
On a school trip up to London me and a friend slipped away and dribbled over the showroom windows of the Dealer at or near Sloane Square. We plucked up the courage to step inside at one point, we were immediately turned around and kicked out. Shocking behaviour.
So 12 years ago I eventually bought my dream car, a V8 X Pack. Still have it and added a DBS V in 2011 and a V12v 2 yrs ago.
Your poster (and actual) car is also my poster car. As a child I would occasionally see a dark blue V8 Volante driving around the Suffolk lanes, or parked up in Ipswich, and I was totally smitten. Then The Living Daylights cemented my desire for one.On a school trip up to London me and a friend slipped away and dribbled over the showroom windows of the Dealer at or near Sloane Square. We plucked up the courage to step inside at one point, we were immediately turned around and kicked out. Shocking behaviour.
So 12 years ago I eventually bought my dream car, a V8 X Pack. Still have it and added a DBS V in 2011 and a V12v 2 yrs ago.
RS Williams had a stand at the 1991 Motorfair at Earls Court, and very kindly let the teenage me sit in one of the very last X Pack V8 Vantages. I absolutely adored it and swore that I would have an Aston some day. V8 prices never quite dropped into my affordability level unfortunately, but three years ago, with the excuse of a honeymoon road trip, I bought a beautiful DB9 Sportspack, a car which I had coveted ever since the Top Gear episode where Clarkson drove one to Monaco, and then drove it to Monaco, the long way round.
Here it is outside Mr White's Lake Como villa.
ClassicV8 said:
1973 V8 S3 my first, only and current Aston bought in 1982. In that year Aston Martin (via Robin Hamilton and Richard Williams) went back to Le Mans with the Nimrod. This was reported on the TV and that was my first exposure to Aston Martin. Suitably inspired, a few months later my Mk2 Escort was gone and the V8 became my only means of transport.
Then
and now
Love it, great minds. Iconic cars for our age group I think. Then
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Coincidentally I’m just ripping a mk2 escort apart. Lol
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Graze01 said:
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d stolen your bonnet badge, or is it carbon and I can't see it ?Long story. Bonnet had to be replaced courtesy of a guy backing into it while it was parked. I have both the carbon and the original but waiting to choose which one (carbon I think) when I replace the side sills with original sills (show the rear arches off way better) then get the sills and whole front PPF covered.
Graze
I feel a bit of a fraud on here , as I don't even have an Aston but I am still working towards getting an Aston Martin. The stories on here give me encouragement to keep saving! I saw the Vantage on Top Gear, the famous one of the V12 in Wales, I believe, and just thought it was stunning. Never thought I might be able to get one, but me and the wife sorted ourselves out financially, and are on the road to be mortgage free in under 2 years, and then its going to be Aston Martin time!
I don't even want the V12, just a V8 will suffice, and then I can get the V12 bonnet put on it.
So they say its all preparation, and so I have 2 years to prepare, sort the garage, read 'The book' on the Vantage and work out what I want and not want, visit the dealerships, etc etc.
Kev
I don't even want the V12, just a V8 will suffice, and then I can get the V12 bonnet put on it.
So they say its all preparation, and so I have 2 years to prepare, sort the garage, read 'The book' on the Vantage and work out what I want and not want, visit the dealerships, etc etc.
Kev
kevin_cambs_uk said:
I feel a bit of a fraud on here , as I don't even have an Aston but I am still working towards getting an Aston Martin. The stories on here give me encouragement to keep saving! I saw the Vantage on Top Gear, the famous one of the V12 in Wales, I believe, and just thought it was stunning. Never thought I might be able to get one, but me and the wife sorted ourselves out financially, and are on the road to be mortgage free in under 2 years, and then its going to be Aston Martin time!
I don't even want the V12, just a V8 will suffice, and then I can get the V12 bonnet put on it.
So they say its all preparation, and so I have 2 years to prepare, sort the garage, read 'The book' on the Vantage and work out what I want and not want, visit the dealerships, etc etc.
Kev
Rule number 1. Keep it honest. I.e. dont put a v12 bonnet on a v8 ever.I don't even want the V12, just a V8 will suffice, and then I can get the V12 bonnet put on it.
So they say its all preparation, and so I have 2 years to prepare, sort the garage, read 'The book' on the Vantage and work out what I want and not want, visit the dealerships, etc etc.
Kev
Rule number 2. Repeat rule 1.
Good luck with your search and look forward to some pics when you take the plunge.
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