That'd be this, then.

Post #222,590 by pwhysall 9/3/05 12:11:03 PM Reply	That'd be this, then. [link\|http://www.astonmartin.com/thecars/db9-3\|http://www.astonmartin.com/thecars/db9-3] Just about the most beautiful car ever built. Peter [link\|http://www.ubuntulinux.org\|Ubuntu Linux] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
Post #222,592 by hnick 9/3/05 12:19:43 PM Reply	Fastest lorry on the road is how a Brit friend of mine described the DBs. This would have been a quarter of a century ago, so it might have changed.
Post #222,593 by pwhysall 9/3/05 12:23:06 PM Reply	Dunno about that They're regarded over here as quite the classic veehickul. Your friend's opinion is not widely shared (though that may not make it any the less valid). Peter [link\|http://www.ubuntulinux.org\|Ubuntu Linux] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
Post #222,603 by hnick 9/3/05 1:27:01 PM Reply	Oh, he liked them well enough At the time, I believe they had a rather loud cast iron straight 6, and a suspension that handled rather well, but shook up the passangers like a truck would. He had a lot of stories about zooming around England in one. Apparently, at the time, there were places where one could really make a car fly, without too much intrest from the police.
Post #222,605 by pwhysall 9/3/05 1:33:01 PM 9/3/05 1:37:48 PM Reply	Before 1965... ...motorways in the UK had no speed limit. And then there were a couple of high-profile crashes, plus the famed Jaguar 190MPH road test, and the Powers That Be took a Ford Anglia, decided it went a bit wobbly and scary at 70MPH, and said "Behold! The Speed Limit!". And so I get to drive on the motorway in my 1999 car (that's made by Germans for the Autobahn, and is somewhat better than a 1965 Ford Anglia) at a frankly ludicrous 70MPH. Well, that's the official line, anyway. Repeat after me: "I always drive to the posted speed limit, oh yes indeed". Peter [link\|http://www.ubuntulinux.org\|Ubuntu Linux] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes! Edited by pwhysall Sept. 3, 2005, 01:37:48 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #222,606 by hnick 9/3/05 1:35:44 PM Reply	Could have been from that time period. I was in my mid 20's and he had a good 15-20 years on me.
Post #222,876 by CRConrad 9/5/05 8:01:20 AM Reply	You didn't? Well, FYI that opinion WAS widely shared back... ...in the day, when David Brown -- originally a tractor manufacturer, you know -- owned the company. Quite the classic very fast lorry. (And a classic quip, too, actually. I'm surprised you hadn't heard it.) [link\|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode\|Christian R. Conrad] (I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.) Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575\|Ashton Brown]
Post #222,877 by pwhysall 9/5/05 8:02:22 AM Reply	I'm a good chunk younger than thee. Peter [link\|http://www.ubuntulinux.org\|Ubuntu Linux] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
Post #222,878 by CRConrad 9/5/05 8:05:12 AM Reply	Not THAT much-I, too, only heard (read) it long afterwards.
Post #222,653 by Ashton 9/3/05 6:31:32 PM Reply	I still have a piece of that - That would be my Linn-Sondek LP-12 bitchin turntable (there used to be things called 'records', without numbers, but with music.) My DB was great for ferrying around little packages with white powder in them :-\ufffd Trouble with these fantasy objects is: only crooks could own one - the amateur kind or the polished Professionals, CIEIOs, Preachers et al. The former might have had time, occasionally.. to momentarily appreciate the massive artisanry and design efforts entailed, if.. these were amateur-crooks with a bit of cuth, that is. The Pros, of course - rarely had/have the time for Noticing anything - except that there is still room in the air-conditioned garage for.. a few more Trophy cars they'd rarely visit. Parked next to the Hispano-Suiza as is trucked to exhibitions / never started. What a waste.. Catch $22$, I guess. Gorgeous, though. (As for moi -- before, during and since ownership of several Vincents: I appreciated every nut&bolt, and even details like, the subtle/sane choice of Cadmium over {ugh} Chrome-plating of the functional fastener bits -- as well as every aspect of performance.) Jay Leno has a mint Shadow - I have a calendar featuring it.. it's just a couple S/Ns away from one of mine. Wonder if he's ever ridden it; hey I even have a signed B/W photo of him astride it! - via happenstance. I was (fortunate enough..) to Realize During.. that I had lucked into 'temporarily owning' a work of Art. I consider that, while these were the most expensive machines then; the entire experience was a Bargain! (Brough Superior being long gone - and no competition for handling, etc. - more of a museum-grade snapshot of a techno less-developed era, than a daily rider. Famous Owner notwithstanding.) Besides, {sour grapes} were I to win one of these in the Universal lottery - I'd be pissed that my rx-time would not permit me to explore all its capabilities / or omissions... bloody Annoying Car! :(

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