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…
Guns,ejector seat, tyreshredders – we drive the most famous Aston of them all. Aston Martin James Bond of the two Aston Martin DB5s used in Goldfinger and Thunderball one vanished in 1997 and the other broke cover in 2010 after years in hiding. We take it on a mission to explore the reality behind the … Read more…
In a homage to the 1963 Alfred Hitchcock thriller The Birds, we take an Aston Martin DB2 drophead on a haunting coastline drive There’s a seagull looking at me. Now, you might not think that significant, but I’m driving an Aston Martin DB2 drophead up on the Northumbrian coast and I have two concerns. One … Read more…
THERE ARE 426 CUBIC INCHES BENEATH THE HOOD OF THIS 1964 PLYMOUTH – BUT IT’S NOT WHAT YOU THINK OUT ON THE STRIP FROM 1962 TO 1964, the Mopars were damned near unbeatable. The Melrose Missile. California Flash. Color Me Gone. The Lawman. The Ramchargers. Legendary names. Weekend after weekend, setting record after record at … Read more…