The making of my Cobalt Blue V12 Vantage Roadster

[Alwin]

My wife and I got invited to witness the creation of my V12 Vantage Roadster at the factory in Gaydon.
And amazingly, I was allowed to take pictures! (provided that I limited my photos to my own car).

The plan was that we would witness “The Marriage”, but the production got delayed and we missed it. But still, we had an amazing visit. Two visits actually, as we were allowed to come back a day later to see more.



A friendly engineer who was working on my drive train let me tighten some bolts, then my wife and I got to sign the drive train :-)





What an amazing day! My wife and I couldn’t stop smiling all the way back to Amsterdam.
Now we really can’t wait for delivery of our roaring roadster. Shouldn’t take too long now…

The full story and lots of factory floor photos are here:
http://www.aston-martin.com/2012/10/19/the-making-...

[Alwin]

ds2000 said:

Looks like the over sprayed onto the bin in your first pic

I noticed that too :-)

[Alwin]

It just rolled off the production line a few minutes ago!

[Alwin]

johng39 said:

So is that the V12V for when it is cold, raining or a track day & the R for when it is warm and sunny OR is it a his an her's V12V thing

Red days, blue days... we'll see.
But this will definitely be our choice on sunny days :-)

[Alwin]

silverspeed said:

They were using it for demo drives

That must be it then. Was already wondering about the flies on the bonnet...

[Alwin]

ScottBlack said:

What a fantastic car! Any photos of the front with the bonnet down? I'd like to see the carbon fiber vents against the blue paint.

No, no pics of the car with a closed bonnet yet.
I hope to receive more pics of the finished car this week.

[Alwin]

AWV12 said:

Geweldig, stoer kleur ook, gefeliciteerd! Wanneer wordt ie afgeleverd? (Hilverum of Eindhoven?).

Enjoy the last wait and of course the first drive!

It will be delivered in Hilversum, at Kroymans. Shouldn't take too long now, couple of weeks maybe?

[Alwin]

The nice people at AML just sent me more photos of the final stages of production, including The Marriage:
http://www.aston-martin.com/2012/10/26/v12-vantage...

[Alwin]

silverspeed said:

Alwin any news on delivery date yet?

Just received news that it has been loaded in a truck and is now on its way to the Netherlands!

[Alwin]

AWV12 said:

Good news!

BTW, will you be present at the Skyfall black-tie event today in Zeist?

Nope. I don't do black tie :-)