One For Classic Car Fans.....

[Brandane]

A DB5 at a petrol station in Cheltenham today..... Stunning car.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Sunday 30th

Drove back up the (northbound) A1 earlier between Wentbridge & FerryBridge, after picking daughter & her b/f up from a wedding reception at Wentbridge House

In the queuing traffic, due to the work on the Viaduct, there was;
Ariel Nomad! (driver was overalled up/helmet/goggles)
2 x VW ‘Bay’ campers
FIAT Coupe (towing what looked like a 60s NSU)
River P6
70’s Yank pick-up (not sure what?)

Plus a Highways Agency Tesla! (model 3?, the ‘sit up & beg’??)

 

[Profpointy]

A DB5 at a petrol station in Cheltenham today..... Stunning car.

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Those 50s and 60s Astons are really lovely aren't they. Not particularly keen on the modern ones even if I was willing to spend the money.

 

[presta]

A DB5 at a petrol station in Cheltenham today..... Stunning car.

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Where's the ejector seat & bullet proof shield?

 

[Bonefish Blues]

It would have been better had it been going the other way - lovely car for a jaunt across the Cotswold escarpment.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Those 50s and 60s Astons are really lovely aren't they. Not particularly keen on the modern ones even if I was willing to spend the money.

Lovely, but whisper it quietly that they weren't actually very good - all rather agricultural. That's the reason why (allegedly) Bond only ended up in one by accident, Sir William Lyons being too thrifty to give the producers an E Type for Bond to use.

 

[Profpointy]

Lovely, but whisper it quietly that they weren't actually very good - all rather agricultural. That's the reason why (allegedly) Bond only ended up in one by accident, Sir William Lyons being too thrifty to give the producers an E Type for Bond to use.

Wasn't the company owned by David Brown, the tractor firm, hence DB4 etc?

That said, Lambo was, and still is, a tractor firm too

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Wasn't the company owned by David Brown, the tractor firm, hence DB4 etc?

That said, Lambo was, and still is, a tractor firm too

Yes x 2

 

[Jameshow]

Those 50s and 60s Astons are really lovely aren't they. Not particularly keen on the modern ones even if I was willing to spend the money.

I like the later ford era ones. Vantage db9 etc!!

Reasonably priced but running costs would sink me!!

 

[Drago]

My Dad's Vanquish lasted a few months before he became tired of not being able to park it anywhere without it acquiring door dings and the like. He sold it, bought another Volvo, and used the cash to buy a plane (Socata TB20 Trinidad, reg G-TIBS), as you do.

 

[Profpointy]

I like the later ford era ones. Vantage db9 etc!!

Reasonably priced but running costs would sink me!!

I like the later ford era ones. Vantage db9 etc!!

Reasonably priced but running costs would sink me!!

My old boss bought one of the fairly modern ones; went halves with a friend and colleague, so split the bills and since each have somewhat more sensible cars as well, they each get plenty of chance to use it.

 

[Chislenko]

 

[DRM]

Where's the ejector seat & bullet proof shield?

iirc, when they needed an Aston Martin for the last batch of 007 films, with Daniel Craig, they contacted Aston Martin for a suitably refurbished example, so Aston contacted some customers whose cars were in for refurbishment asking if they would accept a free, or heavily subsidised rebuild in silver (can't remember which), if the owner made it available for some film work, the vehicle that was selected turned out to have a serial number that ended in 007

 

[raleighnut]

Wasn't the company owned by David Brown, the tractor firm, hence DB4 etc?

That said, Lambo was, and still is, a tractor firm too

As was Laverda.

 

[Profpointy]

As was Laverda.

I didn't know that. And I'd very much like a Laverda. My late lamented Triumph was a triple too

I think the Moto Guzzi V twin originated as an agricultural rotavator engine or something along those lines two