This Sunday, the Kroymans dealership held a belated New Year’s party. Special guests: a Vanquish Volante in Apple Tree Green and a Yellow Tang V12 Vantage S! Together with a pre-owned DB9 Volante in Volcano Red, this formed a nice rastafari coloured threesome:
This weekend I visited the 2014 edition of the yearly Interclassics & Topmobiel fair in Maastricht, the Netherlands. Last year’s edition was the best year for Aston Martin fans, because it celebrated AM’s 100 year anniversary. But still, lots of Aston Martin’s to find this year. Here’s some photos I took during the event. A couple of Lagonda’s from the pre-Aston Martin days, several beautiful classic Aston and two modern ones.
In part two of the “Customizing my V12 Vantage” series, we’re going to look at the first de-chroming I did: blackening out the window trim. This was done by wrapping the original chrome window sills with thin black foil, without even removing them first. Before: After:
All Aston Martin cars are close to perfection the way they roll off the production line. But still, I can’t resist customizing them. Either to add factory options that were not available at the time of purchase, to make changes that Gaydon doesn’t offer, or just to give the car a completely new look after owning it for a while. After I purchased my V12 Vantage, now over 3 years ago, I left it “as-is” for 2 years. But then, the customizing began. In this “Customizing my V12 Vantage” series, I will show and tell you about all changes I made to the red monster since then. The above two photos show my “blank canvas”, the way the car looked when it was still at the dealership, at the time of my test drive. Nothing wrong with that right? Now let’s make it even better. Step 1: Carbon fibre mirror caps.
This V12 Vantage Roadster was spotted near the Nürburgring in Germany. But if you know your Astons, you’ll immediately spot something strange.
Cars and watches go well together, so for our new Aston Goodies category we’ll regularly cover typical Aston Martin watches. Today we’ll look at the Christopher Ward C70 DBR1 chronowatch.
The DB5 is probably the most famous Aston Martin ever made. But did you know Aston Martin has also produced 123 copies of a DB5 convertible? One of those 123 cars is now listed for sale at classicdriver.com and it is stunning! Black pearl paint with a deep burgundy leather interior.
If you’re a car nut, you’re sure to know and follow Shmee150’s YouTube channel, blog and/or Facebook page. In the past few weeks, Tim (aka Shmee150) had been dropping hints that could indicate he might be buying a new car, trading in his Audi R8 V10 Spyder. So last Friday, when Shmee150 posted a picture on Facebook of the Aston Martin dealership in Leeds, UK with a shiny white V12 Vantage in the window, everyone immediately concluded that he was going to buy an Aston Martin. But it turned out he wasn’t. His dad was!
Are you a model car collector or just a fan of the Aston Martin V12 Zagato? Or maybe an owner of a real V12 Zagato looking for a mini version of your own car? Then check out this 1/43 scale V12 Zagato in the Lamborghini color “Arancio Borealis”!
If you are looking for a real bond car, then this is your chance! At dupontregistry you can find an 1964 Aston Martin DB5 with chassis number DB5/2008/R, fully implemented with Bond gadgets (evolving license plates, hubcap blades, hidden guns, a bulletproof screen, radar, a smoke machine and some other cool things that are indispensable for 007). The DB5 is one of four DB5’s made for the Bond movie franchise and this particular one was created for promotional use of the movie Thunderball.