the charming pencil sketches of Paul Chenard

 

https://automobiliart.blogspot.com

I have featured his work several times https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search?q=paul+chenard

Ringbrothers unveiled its 1971 Aston Martin at The Quail

https://www.facebook.com/RingBrothersOfficial

a 1960 DB 4 with just 37,000 miles, came to auction, out of a collapsed garage, where it had been forgotten for 35 years, and sold for £145,000 (thank you Stephen R!)

“The garage it was in, the roof had gone completely,” Derek explains. “It was quite clear that the owner never went in there, blanked the car out of his mind. The Aston was tucked away, with flat tyres that we pumped up, and a tree blocking its exit that we had to cut down."

New owner Julian Crossley is no stranger to restorations so his plan for the DB4 is to show how much restoration you can do at home, even on an Aston Martin! Using specialists where needed, Julian will be sharing the restoration journey to encourage others into restoring cars. Work will start as soon as the NEC show is over, and you can follow the restoration on Crossley Motorsport’s Instagram channel.

https://www.mathewsons.co.uk/auction/lot/lot-500---1960-aston-martin-db4/?lot=35406&sd=1

Great way to advertise the Aston Martin

wrecked by hurricane Ian in 2022

https://www.instagram.com/slaty/p/C_b3IEtyrzN/?img_index=1

SFX Aston Martin V12 Vanquish Front End, Numberplate and Front Seats from the James Bond movie Die Another Day

 https://propstoreauction.com/lot-details/index/catalog/399/lot/145090

How can you make an Aston Martin look bad? Add this green aero kit to the back

 

trashing the police? Hmm, that is a lot to brag about on a license plate of an Aston Martin

the Swedish Volvo P1800: Designed by Pelle Petterson while working for Pietro Frua in Italy, built by Jensen Motors in West Bromwich England, and this unique one has an engine by Aston Martin chief Sir David Brown (thank you Doug!)

The cars were powered by the Volvo B18 1.8 liter engine with 90hp, that was according to Aston Martin chief Sir David Brown, was inadequate to power a proper sports car and he decided to commence a rather bold experiment. 

In March 1961 he commissioned his engineers to develop a 2.5 liter 4-cylinder engine shortened from an existing DB4 engine by cutting off two cylinders. The crankcase, crankshaft and camshaft had to be designed and built from scratch while the liners, pistons and valves could be taken straight from the six cylinder DB4 engine. 

After the first three engines had been completed, Sir David Brown made an agreement with the then UK Volvo importer Charles Singer to test one of the units in a Volvo P1800

The project was cancelled, the test mule scrapped and the remaining engines used for other projects.

Since 1974 these engines had been considered lost until, in 2003, engine #3 was found, overhauled, and an early Volvo P 1800 originally completed at Jensen's was found.

This result was completed in 2005

Since the two other engines were most probably scrapped many years ago, there remains only this one DP208 P1800, making it one of the rarest items in Aston Martin history.

https://www.classicdriver.com/en/car/volvo/p1800/1963/947778

pure style is using a nice script to advertise proudly that you designed and built your engine in house instead of outsourcing or subbing out the engines (or whatever the equivalent of dumping in a chev 350 was back then)

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10222188453640504&set=a.1617402035143

Some assembly required, but wow, what a cool car to work on! (If you have Whitworth tools, I suspect)

https://rmsothebys.com/en/home/private-sales/r5464-1950-aston-martin-db2

clever advertising

 

https://drivingtodays.com/carads/25/

everything was fine, until the new car got jealous of the much finer old cars, and set out to smash as many as possible, with the lame excuse of "stuck throttle"

 

insurance company is not going to be happy about that

https://www.reddit.com/r/AstonMartin/comments/qprk0g/bad_night_in_our_garage_not_1_not_2_but_3_aston/

Paradise Valley Arizona has this Aston Martin in the Dukes of Hazard Charger paint scheme

 

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=5144650198896560&set=gm.4339224282866200

coolest dad ever award goes to: (coffee and donut video for Friday! )

via https://mahhchmore4.tumblr.com

you picked a fine time to leave me loose wheel... Aston comes in 2nd place to the Boranni

the sight of a wheel from your car heading off, watching it roll away as you feel the undercarraige being ground away by the road your now sliding across... must induce a real horrible gut feeling of depression

https://www.facebook.com/groups/505973489414476/permalink/4076296722382117

Shelby was awarded a Patek Philippe in 1959, for winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans, with co-driver Roy Salvadori, in the Aston Martin DBR1.

Shelby, not being the most materialistic person, rarely if ever wore the watch, and later gifted it to his teenage son Pat. 

 
The family treasured the watch for its sentimental value, how it marked such a memorable day. "I didn't wear it, and it upset him," Pat says. "He said 'You ought to wear it,' and I said no. It was pristine, and I wanted to keep it that way."

Now the watch and the Aston Martin are on display in a watch/jewelry store in Dallas, a reuniting, sort of. 

https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/carroll-shelbys-prize-patek-philippe-from-the-1959-24-hours-of-le-mans

Islay Scotch brand Bowmore and Aston Martin have created a $66,000 bottle of 31 yr old single malt whisky with an Aston Martin piston bottomed bottle

https://www.thespiritsbusiness.com/2020/08/aston-martin-and-bowmore-bottle-db5-1964-whisky/

excerpt from the Nimbus Tidende Sept 2020 issue

My guess is that some divorce revenge is going on... but damn, the full size welding tanks?

That's no amateur rig of tanks there.

https://ampervadasz.tumblr.com/post/622817280115474432

Destined for Aston Martin company owner David Brown to use as his personal transportation, this car ended up wrecked by the mechanic that took it racing, after his wife cheated on him with the owner. He drove it into the sea after winning the Gosport Speed Trials in April 1958

It then starred in the movie "School For Scoundrels"

I am not making that up.

https://supercarnostalgia.com/blog/aston-martin-db3s-school-for-scoundrels-bellini