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Nice period photos, presume you are touch with first owner or his family (just as I am with the first owner of mine after AML). Member of the Lagonda Club I see
The new bushes have been received from the manufacturer and very good they look too. Made to a new drawing and using the original AML specification but with slightly firmer rubber for greater resilience.
If you are interested in buying a set of 4 bushes (a car-set) please PM me soon – thanksSimon, I have a 10×8 wetfilm copy of the image with number 52 in the magazine, also one from Snetterton track testing wearing 118, but am not sure who owns copyright. As far as I know the car is in USA. It’s (never?) been in either LC or AMOC, and I think last changed hands publicly in 1980 through the Robin Hamilton auction, Lot 76. It had a 4-speed DB gearbox and special series cylinder head with triple SU carbs from new, also oil cooler in the valence, and must have had a modified exhaust because it was once described as “fast and very noisy” on the track at BDC Silverstone in August 1964, its first competition outing. I’d suppose it was tuned to 290 bhp or thereabouts, and at Ghent speed trials achieved 140 mph, not bad for such a bus. It’s now LHD
Simon, thanks for posting the link. For interest, the picture of LR118 on Madeira Drive was taken on 12 September 1964, when the car (number 52) came first in Class 4 for 4-seater saloons over 2000cc in 29.5 seconds. Although the terminal speed was not recorded for this run, the car ran in another class that day (number 17) coming first (on handicap) as well, in a time of 29.74 seconds with a speed over the final 44 yards of 109 mph. It is also interesting to see the picture from Silverstone (number 50) when driven by Ian Mason (not Jon as per the article) as it is clearly the same car but with Swiss registration plates, however I think the article is wrong in saying it was 1965 as the original Bentley Drivers Club archive of which I have copy is clearly listed as either Class 8 or Class 11 in 1967. In Class 8, the car achieved a fastest lap of 1’19” for an average speed of 73.28 mph
Saw a nice pair of chrome GB letters yesterday, separate with no oval surround, on a Rover 110
Peter, I think the child boards (“technical forums”) are accessible only to AMOC members, as this quote suggests
“The Members areas include:
?Members Only Forums: Technical Forums and Idling
?The AMOC Online Shop
?AMOC Reports
?Spares Directory
?The AMOCrypha, an Aston Martin Wiki: For sharing a wealth of technical information (under construction)
?My Aston Martin Log: For keeping a web log (a pictorial and maintenance/restoration/racing record of your Aston Martin(s)). (under construction)”Interesting to see your car has the heater vents in the rear footwells, again not all cars have them
That’s the third design of that casting I’ve seen! No wonder they lost money
Rapidelover, many thanks for finding a possible solution to this “problem”
This car was seen at the DBR2 day, apparently being given a run out by Chicane Classics on behalf of its new owner in Hampshire. If the owner is here, perhaps you’d share some more info with us, thanks
Reading the last 2 posts, the Brooklands records are broadly consistent with the build sheets; sadly my record does not show the date when Brooklands received 126 (or 129) from AML. It is also conceivable (50 years on) that there is scope for ambiguity between delivery say, and change of title
I wonder therefore if Mr Thomas was an employee or director of Beaconsfield Films, e.g. Company Secretary, Finance Director, Chairman’s chauffeur etc?
Your evidence about 1962 being the year does seem strong.
So I wonder if the car in the film was painted for the show and later changed to another colour? E.g Black pearl. But we found no evidence in 117 when we did the bare metal respray that it had ever had a blue coat under the black, for example
The DB4 dashboard is different in many ways not least its look and construction; it has more of some things (it has ammeter for example) and generally fewer electrical functions (e.g no electric switch for fuel filler cap). Also the instrumentation changes with “Series” of DB4. Many components are the same, for example head/side lights and wipers switches. Some appear the same but are differently calibrated, e.g. speedo
According to my records, 126 was delivered by Brooklands of Bond Street to a Mr Thomas under order number BS12819 on 8 Mar 1963. 129 was delivered to Eton Garages on 21 May 1963 under BS12851. There is definite evidence that 148 was a London Motor Show car, most likely in 1964 (in my view)
Sorry I did not mean to imply there were 2 lighters in one car. I need one for each of 2 cars
What puzzles me is the date. For example 117 was first registered in Nov 1962, but there were 2 Aegean Blue cars with white interior, 126 and 129, neither of which had been built by 1962. Could the film be wrongly 1962 but really 1963? There were no Aegean Blue with white before 117. Can Guy shed any more light I wonder?