Aston Martin One 77 parked outside my work! Nicest car I have ever seen.

[EJK]

What, there is one in New Zealand? Far out!

[SMOKEU]

In short, I like noise, torque and skids with a proper gearbox.

Fuck yes!

It was great in race car form, was good in road car form, a 165kw SS (from back then) was a slow, sack of shit, still is..

If you think that's bad, the standard V8 VL Commodores only had around 165bhp.

[ducatilover]

Ah dude...he owns a TLS. It's even in his username.

Schematics.

(Too much bourbon sorry OAB)

Fuck yes!



If you think that's bad, the standard V8 VL Commodores only had around 165bhp.

125kw from memory, the injected Walky was 184 or 186?
The old 308 wasn't a huge ball of fire by that stage lol Did a good skid and made pretty noises though, just like the 304...

[EJK]

I believe he is also the owner of this SL65 AMG Black Series

[ducatilover]

Okay, now I'm smitten.

[dangerous]

Semi crappy cellphone pix. I called into Vics cafe today to get some bread after a wee motorbike ride, and this is parked directly outside my office.

FARK. schwiiiiiingg

nom nom nom etc

Heres a wee closeup thing about it too. Seems like a nice guy.

http://tvnz.co.nz/close-up/living-as...-video-4204612

Irioni the photo is taken next to a quake flatened site.
very nice... always loved the David Brown line up, as for you deluded nits compearing the AM's to farking mass produced jap shit skidlines... LOL get real.
check out tardme at the mo few AM,s there including this one

[scumdog]

Schematics.

(Too much bourbon sorry OAB)


125kw from memory, the injected Walky was 184 or 186?
The old 308 wasn't a huge ball of fire by that stage lol Did a good skid and made pretty noises though, just like the 304...

I'll just stick to my old-skool Yank V8s, dunno what my 'strongest' one is in h.p. (Probabbly only about 410-430) but enough torque to tear the skin off a rhino.

And the noise, ah the noise.

And style - it's all about style baby, never likely to pull up at the lights and look at the clone of MY ride.

[SMOKEU]

125kw from memory, the injected Walky was 184 or 186?
The old 308 wasn't a huge ball of fire by that stage lol Did a good skid and made pretty noises though, just like the 304...

Yeah my mate had one of the old VL V8 Commodores, came with an LSD as well. Very fun car to drive as it did some nice burnouts.

[Indiana_Jones]

Would love that Aston V8, just like the one from 'The living daylights'

-Indy

[ducatilover]

I'll just stick to my old-skool Yank V8s, dunno what my 'strongest' one is in h.p. (Probabbly only about 410-430) but enough torque to tear the skin off a rhino.

And the noise, ah the noise.

And style - it's all about style baby, never likely to pull up at the lights and look at the clone of MY ride.

I'll take an older one too, my flatmate had a '76 TransAm, the old 400ci donk, it made brilliant noises (no HP, but I couldn't care less)
Can't beat an old iron block for noise

Yeah my mate had one of the old VL V8 Commodores, came with an LSD as well. Very fun car to drive as it did some nice burnouts.

I think a skid was all you could do in a VL lol

[Flip]

I am also a DB fan myself.

Don't give a fuck about jap or auzzy cars to me they are just vehicles for young spotty yobbo's and old fat yobbo's.

Now if it was a Aerial or Caterum car with an obscene power to weight........

Or even a Morgan or Lotus.....

[Mort]

$1.7m.... Thats a lot of money for a car.

[avgas]

Not without a lot of money in it, and it's still a classless womble car in comparison.
The R32 was a wee tiny bit overrated in standard form, they don't go, handle or stop that well.

Veilside's one did.

Isn't it sad............................................130 0hp in car used to be a massive achievement.

God I love the R35 though. In the same note I also hate it.
It was the first car I sat in, that crushed my dreams of owning an exotic. I used to be a Lambo man through and through. Then I sat in a R35 and I wanted to hate it.......I could not fault it on anything.
At that point the dream changed.

[ducatilover]

Veilside's one did.

That's not a standard GT-R... The R32 wasn't as biblical as people like to say in standard form, hell it could barely hold off a Mitsi GT0 at Tsukuba.

Have to agree with how good the R35 is. But, each to their own eh?

[avgas]

but then, the nissan doesnt look at nice, isnt finished as well, doesnt have the class or the charisma, and isnt.. well.. an aston..

I was happily proven wrong (See my previous post).
I had sat and driven a few lovely cars in my time. And to explain how I felt when I got in an R35 (well technically it was an R37) I am going to give you a scenario.

Imagine you are a master chef. You are the cream of the crop when it comes to fine cuisine.
You have used the best knives known to man - some with handles made of fine ivory. You have used the biggest knives, the sharpest knives. The best of the best.

Someone gives you a set of Ginzu knives for xmas.
At first you humor them and cut some thing simple......to your supprise it does it with ease. And its so comfortable.

At the end of the day your saying things like "Holy shit I can cut timbre with this knife!"
Case and point