I remember watching that scene in the movie--I was marveling at the sheer coolness of the stunt and deeply cringing at the loss of such a beautiful car.
Off Colfax, that car is a hell of a deal. You couldn’t build that thing yourself for $50,000. What you’d probably end up doing if you attempted would be to spend $40k and 500 hours of your own time, then give up and sell your “partially completed, lost interest” project for $15k ... lol. Me personally, I’m about $8000 and a few hundred hours into a ‘69 Cutlass (pics here). Not even close to done.
As for the Aston, I can’t help but see “pimped out Jaguar, with better materials, for 3x the price.” Harsh, I know. Just my opinion.
tw: cars99 Ask 99 people about cars, get 99 different answers.
Hey, Bob, cool car. I can’t wait to see it when it’s done (even if it does take a few more years).
About Astons, that would have been a fair cop with the DB7, but the new cars are very much custom, very high tech, and more beautiful than just about anything else on the road (blatant personal opinion). And let me tell you, having driven a couple of the DB7s around the time they first hit the market, even those were wonderfully quick, gorgeous as hell, and attracted more attention on highways than you’d imagine.
If we’re going in more of a classic direction, though, my dream car is more along these lines.
Thanks ... at the rate I’m going, it will take a while. Although I misspoke on my previous comment when I wrote “not even close to done,” ... guys like me know that this thing will never really be “done.” It’s one of the maddening yet fantastic things about the car hobby. I’ve been working on it at the shop my dad manages with the ol’ man. The shop’s owner is a great guy who is usually there with us Saturdays (they’re closed weekends) working on his own stuff. He’s a dyed in the wool car guy, and he’s truly generous ... happy to see us there working week in, week out at his place. I’ll be down there tomorrow plugging away some more. I usually update the pics after each work day, if I can remember to bring my thumb drive to offload the pics from the shop’s camera I use.
I hear ya’ on the affordability. Now that I’ve got a kid, I’m a lot more careful with the spending. I bought the car for $4k, and I figure I’ll have $10k in it total by the time I’m, uh, “done.” The car had sat in my friend’s parents garage for about 20 years ... it was his older brother’s car that he bought in ‘87 and parked after failing inspection with it for worn front end components. I always liked the car, so when I found out he was selling it for that price, I p-ssed off the wife and bought it on the spot! But back to the point, if my dad was not in the business, there’s no way I could be doing this. The paint alone for this car, just the base color, no clear coat, was $475 for a gallon at cost.
I know the Aston and the Jag-you-are are dynamically night and day, but you can’t tell me some of the DNA for that DBS didn’t seep down to the new XK (or up from the XK to the DBS?) ... considering the design timeline for things of this nature, they were definitely on Ford/PAG’s design boards at the same time, even though PAG sold Aston earlier this year. If I was mega rich, I honestly don’t know what I’d buy. I’d probably own a bunch of quirky/freaky stuff like that Leno guy. I mean, who wouldn’t want a 1070HP ‘66 Toronado?
I thought Eva Green’s yabos were pretty hot in “Casino Royale.”
I also liked the floor-to-ceiling glass shower in that one hotel scene, and would like to build something similar (yet smaller, natch) in my master bath, but to admit such a thing would be all gay and stuff.
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Interesting story about how stable a car it is and how hard it was to flip for Casino Royale here.
I remember watching that scene in the movie--I was marveling at the sheer coolness of the stunt and deeply cringing at the loss of such a beautiful car.
Must find that DVD.
Dude. You and I have very different tastes in cars…
This is my pin-up model.
Off Colfax, that car is a hell of a deal. You couldn’t build that thing yourself for $50,000. What you’d probably end up doing if you attempted would be to spend $40k and 500 hours of your own time, then give up and sell your “partially completed, lost interest” project for $15k ... lol. Me personally, I’m about $8000 and a few hundred hours into a ‘69 Cutlass (pics here). Not even close to done.
As for the Aston, I can’t help but see “pimped out Jaguar, with better materials, for 3x the price.” Harsh, I know. Just my opinion.
tw: cars99 Ask 99 people about cars, get 99 different answers.
Hey, Bob, cool car. I can’t wait to see it when it’s done (even if it does take a few more years).
About Astons, that would have been a fair cop with the DB7, but the new cars are very much custom, very high tech, and more beautiful than just about anything else on the road (blatant personal opinion). And let me tell you, having driven a couple of the DB7s around the time they first hit the market, even those were wonderfully quick, gorgeous as hell, and attracted more attention on highways than you’d imagine.
If we’re going in more of a classic direction, though, my dream car is more along these lines.
Not that I can afford any of these things…
Thanks ... at the rate I’m going, it will take a while. Although I misspoke on my previous comment when I wrote “not even close to done,” ... guys like me know that this thing will never really be “done.” It’s one of the maddening yet fantastic things about the car hobby. I’ve been working on it at the shop my dad manages with the ol’ man. The shop’s owner is a great guy who is usually there with us Saturdays (they’re closed weekends) working on his own stuff. He’s a dyed in the wool car guy, and he’s truly generous ... happy to see us there working week in, week out at his place. I’ll be down there tomorrow plugging away some more. I usually update the pics after each work day, if I can remember to bring my thumb drive to offload the pics from the shop’s camera I use.
I hear ya’ on the affordability. Now that I’ve got a kid, I’m a lot more careful with the spending. I bought the car for $4k, and I figure I’ll have $10k in it total by the time I’m, uh, “done.” The car had sat in my friend’s parents garage for about 20 years ... it was his older brother’s car that he bought in ‘87 and parked after failing inspection with it for worn front end components. I always liked the car, so when I found out he was selling it for that price, I p-ssed off the wife and bought it on the spot! But back to the point, if my dad was not in the business, there’s no way I could be doing this. The paint alone for this car, just the base color, no clear coat, was $475 for a gallon at cost.
I know the Aston and the Jag-you-are are dynamically night and day, but you can’t tell me some of the DNA for that DBS didn’t seep down to the new XK (or up from the XK to the DBS?) ... considering the design timeline for things of this nature, they were definitely on Ford/PAG’s design boards at the same time, even though PAG sold Aston earlier this year. If I was mega rich, I honestly don’t know what I’d buy. I’d probably own a bunch of quirky/freaky stuff like that Leno guy. I mean, who wouldn’t want a 1070HP ‘66 Toronado?
And if sex were a bottle of wine, it would look like this:
http://www.cellartracker.com/wine.asp?iWine=19551
Seriously, it makes stuff tingle.
Girls are all about the car. And that is a damn fine sexy ride. Lucky man who owns that A-M!
And if he looks like Daniel Craig...rowrrr!
I think Aston Martin just got sold to a consortium.
By the way, David, do you have a spare $1300 ?. Unfortunately, Jackson Hole this weekend is sold out ...
Dunno about you guys.
The Talbot t150ss is sexier, IMHO. And check out the 1938 Phantom Corsair while you’re there.
Of course, as Richard Pryor said, this is “pure pussy”.
I thought Eva Green’s yabos were pretty hot in “Casino Royale.”
I also liked the floor-to-ceiling glass shower in that one hotel scene, and would like to build something similar (yet smaller, natch) in my master bath, but to admit such a thing would be all gay and stuff.
And I like yabos.
Damnit.
If it can’t be driven on a trail where what passes for “road maintenance” is, well, driving your truck on it, well…
Sports cars? NTTAWWT.
I just saw this, a Mercedes SLR McLaren, this morning on Motor Week. It sent shivers.