Mad Hatters at The Motorist

[andrew-494ym]

I took my 997 along to The Motorist in Sherburn yesterday lunchtime, just for a drive really.
I was about to leave in time to watch the F1 race when these beauties turned up.
Wow!

[andrew-494ym]

The RS 2.7 is for sale, just a cool £500k! The guy has owned it 20 years.
The Daytona is a 37k mile unrestored example, I had never seen either in the metal before, then they parked back to back.

[cjb44]

andrew-494ym said:

I took my 997 along to The Motorist in Sherburn yesterday lunchtime, just for a drive really.
I was about to leave in time to watch the F1 race when these beauties turned up.
Wow!

That Aceca is proper!

[andrew-494ym]

Yes, the Aceaca was lovely, as was the original Cobra, loads of old Astons, 2 Bentley Blowers, a dino gt4, a Lotus cortina mark 1 etc etc.

[LotusOmega375D]

That “Cobra” is a fibreglass RAM replica with a Chevrolet engine.

[andrew-494ym]

oh, ok. I didnt have a good look at that one.

[aeropilot]

andrew-494ym said:

Yes, the Aceaca was lovely, as was the original Cobra, loads of old Astons, 2 Bentley Blowers, a dino gt4, a Lotus cortina mark 1 etc etc.

I think that Aceaca might be the one that Mathewsons tried to sell a while back, and it never got close to reserve? Owned at the time by a couple in their 80's, who had owned it since the 80's IIRC.

[andrew-494ym]

aeropilot said:

I think that Aceaca might be the one that Mathewsons tried to sell a while back, and it never got close to reserve? Owned at the time by a couple in their 80's, who had owned it since the 80's IIRC.

Is that the one that got restored on CAR SOS?

[TCEvo]

andrew-494ym said:

I took my 997 along to The Motorist in Sherburn yesterday lunchtime, just for a drive really.
I was about to leave in time to watch the F1 race when these beauties turned up.
Wow!

My brother lives in nearby South Milford & I've seen that Aston filling up at the BP in the past. I was with him last weekend & saw a DB2 Volante (Sat pm) that might've been at the same meet/local.

Cool selection of cars. He's mentioned going to The Motorist in the future.

[aeropilot]

andrew-494ym said:

aeropilot said:

I think that Aceaca might be the one that Mathewsons tried to sell a while back, and it never got close to reserve? Owned at the time by a couple in their 80's, who had owned it since the 80's IIRC.

Is that the one that got restored on CAR SOS?

No idea, but I wouldn't have thought so, given the old couple were trying to sell at Mathewsons only about 18 months ago, and it was in need of restoration then. It appeared as a no-sale again a few months later at another auction house, so I guess it dawned on the couple it wasn't going to sell for what they thought it would, and it later did sell for a realistic sum.

[cjb44]

andrew-494ym said:

Is that the one that got restored on CAR SOS?

No, the one on SOS was the only TR engined prototype that AC tried out but discarded, probably because the engine felt a bit rough after the current straight six engines.