Surrey* Rolling Road - Sat 28th April - from about 10am

[JonMad]

Nice shots!

[duncs500]

Bloody pissed it down all the way home. The half hood did a pretty good job but I did seem to get a very fine spray on the back of my neck. Spray was a nightmare, especially going past lorries.

Good to see some old faces and meet some new ones. I must say I was smitten with that Aston. Stunning.

[duncs500]

Oh yeah, nice shots GG. Took me a while to finish my reply so I hadn't seen them.

[Sundayjumper]

The redline looks to be 7,250 from that picture.

OK, you do have a point there. Smarty pants. But that's not my car, it's a pic off the internet that I posted from my phone and didn't notice it was slightly different to mine. Here's an actual picture from my car:

[JLv3.0]

Does yours do the "Scrotum. Penis. Testicles" greeting thing, has it made you self-harm and is there a way to disengage it?

[Sundayjumper]

Yes, a little bit, AFAIK no.

[JLv3.0]

Asked and answered.

[Sundayjumper]

I must say I was smitten with that Aston. Stunning.

Shucks. Thanks. You'll have to take it for a spin next time.

I'm obviously massively biased, but I do feel like they're a bit of a bargain at the moment compared to the other obvious candidates whose prices have rocketed in recent years. There's always a few <£30k and right now if you're really brave there's a high miler on AutoTrader for £24k. Build quality is good. These were developed under Ford's ownership and had a decent budget spent on them. They somehow have a "oooh, they're very unreliable" reputation which I think is just a case of all British cars being tarred with the same brush. It's nothing like a TVR in that respect. Although it does have all the good TVR attributes and feels very much like a grown-up and better built TVR. Quite a lot of the grubby parts came from the Ford / Jag parts bin and can be picked up quite cheaply. It needed a new thermostat last year, I picked up the Jag part for £30 and fitted it myself. I've been on the Pistonheads Aston forum for a while now and reliability horror stories are pretty few & far between. The only semi-regular thing is that some cars seem to get through clutches quite quickly and it's (IIRC) about £2k fitted for a new one. Which in the context of a car that was ~£100k new is still not too bad.

They also, somehow, have a knack of being flashy yet classy and a way of charming people. Nobody ever notices my Porsche. It's just a Porsche. They're everywhere. But in the Aston people visibly smile, stare, wave, give you a thumbs up. I've never had a Ferrari/Lamborghini but from what I've heard people wave at those also - it's just a different kind of wave.

They've stopped making this shape of Vantage now. If prices are going to climb it will be the earliest models first as they are the purest design. A design that they absolutely nailed right from the start. Fingers crossed !

[Sundayjumper]

And I keep going back to look at the pic of the rev counter. I frickin' love that instrument panel.

[mik]

What did the Cat deliver Duncs?

[duncs500]

I couldn't get a slot at a time I could get there. Probably could have got on if I was willing to wait around, but I couldn't be arsed... I was getting hungry.

[Coaster1]

Good numbers for the Vantage. I am a fan of these cars.

This one caught my eyes; love the colour.

https://wallisandson.co.uk/stock/CarSal ... iew&id=206

I would love to run one for a year but didn’t Nutty have a hard time selling his and ended up losing money?

[Sundayjumper]

That's an unusual colour. Nice. Someone on Pistonheads was recently lamenting the lack of green Astons what with it being the classic British colour.

Did Nutty come over to the new forum ? IIRC his was one of the less common colours; black or grey is the resale-friendly choice. Even silver like mine is not especially common.

[GG.]

Does yours do the "Scrotum. Penis. Testicles" greeting thing, has it made you self-harm and is there a way to disengage it?

At least (IIRC) the 4.3s have a proper (Volvo ) key and not the stupid emotional control unit that you have to keep in a leather pouch and can't be attached to a keyring. That would properly piss me off.

[GG.]

That's an unusual colour. Nice. Someone on Pistonheads was recently lamenting the lack of green Astons what with it being the classic British colour.

Did Nutty come over to the new forum ? IIRC his was one of the less common colours; black or grey is the resale-friendly choice. Even silver like mine is not especially common.

Haven't seen him so far and his username is not registered looking at the members list.

From recollection, his expectations with regard to how much he was likely to lose (i.e. nothing) after a couple of years and a few thousand more miles was wholly unrealistic.

Unless you've actually seen resale values start to creep upwards across the board then there's always the chance a car hasn't reached the bottom of its depreciation curve and even on something 10 years old you'll lose a few percent when you come to sell on.

[David_Yu]

Does yours do the "Scrotum. Penis. Testicles" greeting thing, has it made you self-harm and is there a way to disengage it?

At least (IIRC) the 4.3s have a proper (Volvo ) key and not the stupid emotional control unit that you have to keep in a leather pouch and can't be attached to a keyring. That would properly piss me off.

Whoever came up with the Emotion Control Unit and the "Power Beauty Soul" start up really ought to be banned from marketing for life.
You don't see BMWs say "Aggression, No Indicating, Self-Importance" on their dash when they start up FFS...

[Mito Man]

But if an Italian marque said ‘energia, bellezza, anima’ on inserting the key the journalists would wet their panties...

[Coaster1]

I love green Astons. Green or some sort of dark metallic red would be my choice.

IIRC Nutty’s one was tungsten silver so a nice colour but common (which might work against reselling).

[Sundayjumper]

Was it ? I had a dark red in mind, but I could be wrong. I can't find anything about it now the old forum's gone.

[Simon]

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