Friday 13th May 2011

Aston's Annual Auction Rolls Around Again

Newport Pagnell 'Works Service' facility opens its doors for Bonhams bash

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If you thought our royal newly-weds looked good in Prince Charles' DB6 Volante (and you have over £200k to spare), you might want to get yourself down to the Bonhams 12th annual auction of Aston Martin Lagonda cars and related automobilia at Newport Pagnell on May 21st.

As well as a number of old and modern Astons there will be two 1968 DB6 Volantes on the block - both near-identical to the car given to Prince Charles on his 21st birthday. Each could go for £250,000 or even more given the current worldwide focus on the Royal wedding - and to think all I got for my 21st was £200 towards the crippling insurance of my 1.9 GTI...

If James Bond is your bag then there are a couple of 'identical' replicas of famous 007 cars. A replica DBS from Her Majesty's Secret Service (in which the gorgeous Diana Rigg met her fate right after getting married to George Lazenby's Bond) is expected to make between £50,000 - 70,000, and a clone of the V8 Volante used by Timothy Dalton's Bond in Living Daylights should go for £70,000 - 100,000 the auctioneers reckon. For a far more attainable £2,500 - 3,500 you'll be in with a shout for the actual DB5 steering wheel that was used in Goldfinger, as well as a host of other Bond memorabilia.

As for us, we can't afford any of that stuff (although the stunt knife used by Halle Berry in Die Another Day might just be do-able at an estimated £600). We'll content ourselves with getting giddy over the new One-77 which Aston has promised to put on display instead.

[Turbobanana]

Can't even remember my 21st...

(ETA: due to it being a long time ago, not alcoholic excess).

[P4ROT]

Both those zagato volantes are stunning...want

[louiebaby]

Dibs.

[11110111]

B15 TUP looks like the bd child of a porsche / tvr wedge / MK1 MR2 / F355 orgy

[louiebaby]

Or for a more reasonable wedge, although you've have to plough A LOT into it:



If I had the time I'd love to have a go...

[Muncle Trogg]

I wish I wasn't so poor, right not I can't even afford this one

[ewenm]

Lot 304 caught my eye...

[JohnoVR6]

Hmm...yes please!

[58tangohotel]

Have to say if I were to buy something from the auction it would be Lot 189, I think it's quite cool!

[mxspyder]

I can't afford the £30 for a catalogue!

It won't stop be dreaming about Lot 304

http://images1.bonhams.com/erez4/erez?src=Images/l...

[glazbagun]

JohnoVR6 said:

Hmm...yes please!

Lovely. This is what Aston's should look like, IMO. The DB9 is loveley, but clearly more E-Type than Aston in styling.

[soad]

Far too many to choose from - that's a good thing though.
Shame i'm broke...

[A Scotsman]

P4ROT said:

Both those zagato volantes are stunning...want

Ditto

[Vipers]

Two I spotted the other week, absolutely immaculate, of course.

First one a DB6



Second one a DB5, although askmid saysDB4



What the difference is I have absolutely no idea.

[estoril]

Can the public just turn up to "have a look", can't see anything on the web site........and will there actually be anything there to look at?

[Shmee]

estoril said:

Can the public just turn up to "have a look", can't see anything on the web site........and will there actually be anything there to look at?

It's pretty closed off and you need to buy a catalogue to get further than the car park.

That said in the car park last year there were over 100 customer Astons so that was quite fun in it's own sense!

ETA: If the One-77 shows up, it will be outside in a public area, but the only place I've heard mention of that is in this post, my friend at Bonhams said it was news to him.

[estoril]

Thanks Shmee, I live in Newport so will drop by, it would be rude not too!

[M666 EVO]

Turbobanana said:

Can't even remember my 21st...

(ETA: due to it being a long time ago, not alcoholic excess).

I can't remember my twenties, totally due to alcoholic excess

Back to topic, the DB6 is a thing of beauty. Must. Win. Euromillions. Tonight.

[dowahdiddyman]

Lot 303 would do me, an Aston for app 15k or a Mondeo type euro box.

[Ali2202]

Vipers said:

What the difference is I have absolutely no idea.

Pretty sure that's a DB5. DB4 (GT) had one-piece tail-lamps as opposed to the 3 seperates on the DB5.

I could be talking ste mind you....