Moderators PB260Z Posted June 18, 2015 Moderators Posted June 18, 2015 OK so it is not Z, but surely this can't be real. Quote
Administrators gav240z Posted June 18, 2015 Administrators Posted June 18, 2015 Interesting I recall something about that mirror positioning on these being unique to a specific year. Personally I think it looks whack, but also kinda cool. I don't see why it couldn't be real, perhaps it had an issue 10-15 years ago and the owner couldn't afford to fix it, stored it up and it's deteriorated since. Is it meant to be in Australia? Quote
Administrators gav240z Posted June 18, 2015 Administrators Posted June 18, 2015 Ahh yeah Harry's Garage. Worth watching his videos, I hate him and his money haha. Quote
44014 Posted June 18, 2015 Posted June 18, 2015 The funny thing is I have driven one that had both mirrors fitted. You literally can not see them from inside the car the pillar is directly in the line of sight for the mirror. Absolutely horrible to try and reverse park. Quote
74zzz Posted June 19, 2015 Posted June 19, 2015 there is heaps of things like this though watch something on youtube ages ago and this old guy had a miura sitting in a shed under 2 inches of dust........it does happen. One that breaks my heart is I have this friend who was saying a few years ago that she and her brothers were going to 'do up' her fathers car that had been sitting for 30 years and present it to him for his 60th birthday. Me being an old car nut I asked what type of car it was.......she said confused and knowing nothing about cars "i think its an aston?" assuming she got it wrong I said "do you mean austin, austin healy maybe?" which she stated "hang on, I'll call dad" Speaking with her soon to be 60 year old father " she confirms "no i was right, it is an Aston Martin" with eyes wide open and sweating i ask "what year and model?" I hear him say through the phone in a thick greek accent "its a DB6". Which I then yell in my drunk state "bullshit!" He then goes out to the back yard takes a photo of a red DB6 sitting under a shitty tattered blue tarp sitting out in the open.........on grass!!!!!! I nearly started crying....... I shudder to think what state it is in and with these things now reaching $600,000 a family funded resto is out of the question........ So I now know there is a red db6 sitting out in the weather on the sunshine coast qld just rotting away in some old greek guys backyard......... I asked her how he managed to get hold of a aston at the age of thirty........admittedly they were worth no where near what they are today but her family doesn't seem to be flushed with cash......I have a feeling the greek connections are or once were a little sinister back in the late 70s early 80s Quote
luvemfast Posted June 19, 2015 Posted June 19, 2015 Testarossa is my earliest cars of desire! As much as I'd love to own one. I'd be scared to drive it, so what's the point. Then there's the maintenance.......... Quote
44014 Posted June 19, 2015 Posted June 19, 2015 Testarossa is my earliest cars of desire! As much as I'd love to own one. I'd be scared to drive it, so what's the point. Then there's the maintenance.......... Handed over a 25k bill for a major service on a 512M a few months ago.... Quote
dat240z Posted June 19, 2015 Posted June 19, 2015 Yikes!!! Is that yours 44014??? Ive always loved the 512s Quote
74zzz Posted June 19, 2015 Posted June 19, 2015 I was a countach fan...mostly because I was brought up by my older brothers on the cannonball run and smokey and the bandit series' both of which had one in them but my other kid car crush was the 928......i watched weird and risky buisness again and again so i could watch the burnout and car chase scene Quote
gilltech Posted June 19, 2015 Posted June 19, 2015 Is it meant to be in Australia? Looks like a pine forest so it's more likely Europe or Nth America.....& not even a barn.....sad. Well, these weren't barn finds, because there wasn't a building..... In 1990 on holiday in Hawaii I spotted some early Corvette coupes, including a desirable 'split-back-window', sitting uncovered beside a modest little house on the outskirts of Honolulu. Also spotted several sad old 280 Zeds in the same general neighbourhood, just parked up in the open, no protection from the elements. Same situation with some old Mustangs on the island of Maui. All going green with verdigris in a damp marine environment. In 2004 I was there again & all of them were still where I'd first spotted them, none had moved, except maybe downwards into the ground. Quote
bluerat Posted June 19, 2015 Posted June 19, 2015 An old Russian guy who now lives in a Tasmanian West Coast mining town has this in his shed....... Quote
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