MediaContent A svelte mid-engined Italian and a brawny front-engined English GT, pitted against each other by equally contrasting TV playboys The Persuaders! Which one convinces you? Pront or mid-engined – which handles better? It was a battle played out each week in the early Seventies in the TV show The Persuaders!, with this very Aston DBS … Read more…
The prototype DB2 road car had a hectic life-, first with David Brown then with Lance Macklin the Targa Florio and Mille Miglia. This is the story of the car that wouldinfluence every subsequent Aston Martin. It is the familiar blended with the unfamiliar. Differences are subtle yet… oh look, it’s no good, I can … Read more…
This Aston Martin DB4 packs competition-derived GT power into standard bodywork. Perfect for shrinking trans-Europe journeys, then I collected DB4 GT chassis numbers’ said Don Rose almost sheepishly as we pawed the flanks of his silver Aston Martin DB4 on a stop in an obscure Belgian back road. It seemed an odd pastime for a … Read more…
Prototypes usually face a grisly fate once they’ve served their propose for testing or publicity. Most have disappeared in a shower of angle grinder sparks or the blaze of a cutting torch because the manufacturer needed the spare parts, or just didn’t want the public to be reminded of an embarrassing development blind alley. Project … Read more…
The car Macca used to record Hey Jude returns to its Liverpool roots Reflections of a tunnel’s overhead lighting stream towards me along the high points of the Aston’s bonnet bulge and wingtops, there’s a distant sound of the twincam straight six’s droning rasp bouncing off the concrete walls, and inside, a Sixties Philips cassette … Read more…