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Re: Weekend toy £25k
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2026 5:36 pm
by JonMad
Jobbo wrote: Tue Jun 16, 2026 5:04 pm
Matty wrote: Tue Jun 16, 2026 1:28 pm
Did they ever get that low? Sportsfits have hoovered around 60k for a while, but never saw manuals drop below £80.
If you're feeling brave, there's a manual for £60k but it's got 80k on it. It's not in the most appealing colour, either....but you know, V12.
I think we're detailing the £25k budget at this point as well
Manual V12 Aston under £25k you say? Easy - DB9:
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-detail ... 6103179696
I say easy but there aren't very many manuals compared to autos on Auto Trader.
One service in the last 7 years? (otherwise, V12, and an Aston, what's not to like)
Re: Weekend toy £25k
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2026 5:38 pm
by jamcg
I knew someone who had one. A fiesta crashed into it, and got wrote off- back when a write off was a write off and not just a broken headlight. The Yugo had a slightly bent bumper
Re: Weekend toy £25k
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2026 6:29 pm
by IanF
I imagine you’d be lucky taking a Maser GT to a scrap heap.. it’d be a pile of bran flakes on the drive way before!
Aston/911/Maser have too much overlap.. just buy a proper Italian V12 and then at least the misery will be matched by the driving dynamics
Re: Weekend toy £25k
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2026 8:46 pm
by JonMad
there was one of those round my way when I was growing up.
Re: Weekend toy £25k
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2026 10:09 pm
by Rich B
My sister had a white 513 (looked similar at the front - the Pug 309 to that one being the 205!) It was pretty awful, but seemed pretty bullet proof in a soviet steel kind of way.
Re: Weekend toy £25k
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2026 11:29 pm
by speedingfine
Find a few grand and get this. Looks like the bloke's taken it to bed with him
https://www.carandclassic.com/l/C2087079
Re: Weekend toy £25k
Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2026 9:58 am
by Delphi
JonMad wrote: Tue Jun 16, 2026 5:36 pm
One service in the last 7 years? (otherwise, V12, and an Aston, what's not to like)
But it was carried out by the internationally renowned Aston Martin specialist Great Horkesly Garage!
Re: Weekend toy £25k
Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2026 1:07 pm
by Matty
That's lovely...alas, self servicing for 10 years plus no talk of a rebuild means it's be too much of a roll of the dice for me.
I spent far too much of my time the other night looking at LS3 converted TVRs after they were discussed here. That doesn't meet the £25k budget though....
