Aston Martin V8 - The Quintessential Gentleman's Express | Tyrrell's Classic Workshop
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- Опубліковано 16 чер 2024
- Welcome back to Tyrrell's Classic Workshop! This episode brings us an exquisite 1988 Aston Martin V8 Coupe, a remarkable blend of luxury and performance. While it bears similarities to the Aston Martin DBS V8 supercar, which we featured last year, this Aston Martin V8 stands out for being both unrestored and in concours condition.
Having covered 68,000 miles, this Aston's engine remains pristine, as Iain demonstrates. He also delves into the Weber Marelli fuel injection system, which was also used in the Ford Sierra RS Cosworth and Ferrari F40, and talks about the Chrysler Torqueflite automatic transmission. Despite not being a Vantage or a DBS, this "common or garden" V8 remains special, as Iain illustrates with the luxuriously appointed interior swathed in the finest Connolly Leather.
Join Iain as he takes the Aston for a road test, enjoying the burble of the powerful V8 engine. Watch as he "opens the taps" on this classic gentleman's express, a prime example of classic British cars.
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00:00 Aston Martin V8
02:01 The engine: 5340cc and gleaming
02:57 Concours condition interior and stunning burr walnut
05:26 The craftsmanship of a coachbuilt body
08:45 Additional features
10:03 Iain's first experience of an Aston Martin V8
12:04 Aston Martin V8 roadtest
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Gentleman of a certain age, The opening sequences to the TV series the "Persuaders with the DBS & Dino. Life forming. And here we are getting another reminder of things we never acheived as adults, beamed to our Ipads & laptops courtesy of Mr Tyrrell. Heavenly used for the second time today.
Beautiful Newport Pagnell built Aston Martin …. A proper Aston Martin 👊🏻
Back seats seem perfectly fine to fit a couple of French lingerie models to me, but saloon is indeed exaggerated.
Uh Saturday evening with family in front of the TV watching Lord Brett and Danny go down the bendy roads in Southern France.
Yes and the show had a great theme tune, along with the opening scenes that set the characters 👍
I'm also a gentleman of a certain age and I know EXACTLY what you mean! 😄
It was a warm April day in 1982 when this Canadian, on a high school trip to the UK, crossed a road near Savile Row directly in front of a V8 (a Vantage, I think), and the particular gentlemen honoured my teenage ogling of his car with a blip of the throttle. My friends weren't quite so aware of such British automotive anachronisms, but for me it was the cherry on top of a trip that had already been filled with all manner of European automotive unobtanium.
Grown up me realizes dreams are best left as such. Thanks for taking me back a bit.
Blip the throttle on an Aston Martin V8 in London today and you would be tarred and feathered.
Dreams are for doing. Otherwise no point in dreaming
'Unobtanium' is a fantastic word, and that's a fantastic memory.
I come here for the cars, the stories, the craftsmanship, the enthusiasm, and words like "sybaritic". Thank you Ian.
If I could only ever own one car (and I had the money!), this would be it. Thank you to yourself and the person who owns this masterpiece, for keeping it in concours condition, for us all to enjoy seeing. Splendid.
"That's how memories are made.." Got to love it! 😁
I recall meeting the great Victor Gauntlett at NPP in 1980 after the motor show in London on a Sunday early afternoon and seeing his Aston outside the office. He came out of his office to see what was happening and engaged us in conversation. What a lovely man. It was a wonderful meeting with a warm and pleasant gentleman. RIP Victor Gauntlett.
I've heard similar stories about Mr. Gauntlett. Classy guy.
"I'm half overgrown schoolboy, half hard-nosed businessman" - " Often wrong, never in doubt!"
We raced Victor Gauntlet from Silverstone to Buckingham. He was in the Aston Martin test car AML1, us in our 1300 Marina. We were flat out, he couldn't pass us until we got to a very long straight, where we didn't have the top speed to stop him passing. As he passed he took off his flat cap and dipped his head in respect. He also blew his horn after straightening up.
The next day we met and had a laugh about it. He was a really nice guy.
Because we used to live near Huddersfield we saw David Brown many times driving his DB5 or 6 shouting brake.
My first experience with Aston Martin's came when I was about 7 or 8 years old.
My cousin married a man whose father had his brand new Aston Vantage at the wedding, bright red, and at a time when an Aston really was something special, 1977-78ish.
Now, I don't know how true this story was but apparently he had an import/export business in the 70s breaking the sanctions against Rhodesia during the bush war, flying fruit out........and weapons in..!
As I understand it he had a rolling annual order with Aston and kept the previous ones!
He bought my cousin a brand new 308gtb as a wedding present..
Still an exquisitely proportioned bolide, and pretty brutal in Vantage spec.
Yet another superb film for a Sunday evening just to remind me what a failure I've been in life....lol.
Wow- quite the story but utterly believable!
What a stunning beautiful car and a colour combination to die for.
The best cars of all the times, a dream, a mix of a Rolls-Royce and a Ferrari, much better than today's supercar
The older I get the more I love these cars.
I'm old, and I have always loved these cars. I have photos from the mid 80s from Lime Rock Park. Showing one in the car park along with my Austin Healey Sprite.
@@stephenhenion8304 that’s awesome. I live in the US so I never had the opportunity to see them
When I was 7ish ,my Dads friend had an Aston Martin.
He worked in the coal mines with my Dad. I always loved the style and sound of the car.
Memories.
Fantastic, I was at the motor show with my mum and dad, it was 1978 with the stunning blue, my favourite is the V8 Vantage, in my opinion the greatest car ever produced
What a stunningly beautiful machine. THIS is the stuff of dreams. Nobody builds a car today that can hold a candle to the Aston V8, it oozes quality, class and character. The stainless steel and chrome brightwork is to die for, as is the interior- very opulent.
This car is stunning. That it’s not a garage queen makes it even more impressive.
I've already said it on a different video but all this line of V8 Aston Martin cars is insanely cool.
Brutish but still elegant and refined. Perfectly combined.
Dear Ian, I have always said it since it appeared in the late 70's: It looks like a Mustang from every angle
I think even Sir William Towns would agree the Mustang was a big inspiration
@@iain_tyrrell Thank you Ian, you have given me the best response to my Aston Martin appreciation that it looks like a Mustang. Some people have been nasty with me when I have told them this remark
Can you really imagine that beast with an electric motor ? Raw power from petroleum. Lovely.
in My opinion the v8 vantage is one of the greatest cars ever! Probably because of my age but non the less it was a record breaker.
Iain, I'd listen to you reviewing a wheelie bin. Your genuine passion makes anything interesting... 😊
That's the best-looking Aston of all time.
This is one of the cars at the top of my lottery winning bucket list.
V8s AM are such masterpieces, so classy, rare and elegant. There’s a Lagonda Series 2 with same color scheme regularly coming to my local Cars & Coffee here in Orange County, CA….Stunning!!!
Better looking than the Vantage, in my Opinion... Love the lines - the only thing I never understood was this box under the rear bumper. For me, it looks like a diaper and spoils this absolut wonderfull design. But even with this little minus, it is one of the best looking cars ever made.
Thank you for showing this stunning example!
My best subscription by far
I love these cars and visited the Newport Pagnell factory back in 1998 when the last of the “V8s” were made. I got to see the work benches (I think there were 3) where the men built entire engines and talked to “the ladies” across the street where the upholstery was made. A charming tour by a retired factory worked made it a special day.
I used to drive through Newport Pagnell in the 1970s on my way to Wellingborough and often saw two or three Astons parked in the nearby pub car park. It occurred to me that the car park was more expensive than the building!
I too visited Newport Pagnall circa 1994.
This is the Aston that I lusted after as a teen, there was a dealership near my school.
Gorgeous. I regret that I'm not 'gentleman' enough to own such a handsome beast, but as a girlie-girl I'd like to think I wouldn't look too out of place in the passenger seat - floaty summer dress, Hermès headscarf, huge goggly sunglasses - cruising down to Brighton for fish and chips... (Oh dear, what a ghastly common oik I am - I should have said cruising down to Cannes for the film festival🤭.)
Fish and chips sound just fine!
A burl is a deformed growth on the trunk, like a benign cancer, so only some trees get them, and when you slice it you get the swirly cross section which is quite different from regular walnut wood. The panel that houses the instruments is very intricate and hard to make. Back in the day I had a Jag that had wood on dashboard and doortops but the instrument panel was fake wood.
I'd have one of these any day over a modern Aston (desirable as they are).
I had that experience with my uncle Alan. He let me drive his 1973 Corvette. An experience I'll never forget it. The only uncomfortable thing as a 16 year old was I could not see the nose from my seat!... at all! Hahaha
Very few things scream good taste as much as this beauty!
“Gentelmans Sporting Coupé”have to love it
What a stunningly beautiful car. It looks and sounds awesome.
Another great car from my childhood! The classiest muscle car ever made! Thanks for a great video Iain!
I think the smile says it all Iain…👍🏻 fantastic vehicle..
Pressed Steel Fisher! Now there’s a name I haven’t heard in many a year! 😮 Thanks for the memories Ian. 👍👏
Always loved the classy and elegant look of these Aston Martins.
Funny, those air horns you showed at 1:26 are seemingly the exact same as ones I yesterday fitted to my MK1 MX5. 1970s Maserati horns by Harry Moss. They work after all this years, and sound tremendously Italian. Most importantly, they’re loud enough to get my little MX5 noticed in traffic. I love the idea of fitting a quality item used by Ferrari and Maserati in period to my humble Mazda.
That's how memories are made. That's also how Astons are wrecked!
Love the childhood memory flashbacks. Very special when it comes from you.
Thank you
Marvelous narration and storytelling, Iain! Such a pleasure to receive your in depth knowledge and I agree that this blue on the DBS/V8 body is the second best, next to Olive, of course. One slight detail: the ally bodies were made over hammer forms, which were steel, in sections, then welded together on either the buck or the actual chassis. The wooden buck is actually a checking buck, and there were many different hammer forms made for each curve or fold in the ally. I made a buck for my DBS lower front valance, or Sharkmouth, and that was a job indeed! My metal guru then made hammer forms from that, and used the buck to check the pieces. All of it was welded onto the car from 5 pieces, then the fettling began!
I would love to finally complete her and would be honoured to present Her Majesty's Secret DBS to you and have you smile and grin as you did with this V8. Thank you for your great work!
Thanks for your sharing. Love to see the end result
With the ZF gearbox being 10x the cost of the Torqueflite automatic transmission - it is probable that AM set the cost based on all cars coming with manual and if the auto option was selected, then it was offered as a “no cost option” and in turn AM pocketed the discount to themselves for ‘saving’ the cost of putting in the expensive ZF ‘box.
We hope they had the business sense to do that!
Vantage owners may disagree but I'd say the regular V8 is the more 'resolved' of the two. Neither car was built for throwing around corners and the ease of an automatic gearbox just seems so much more suited to the car's character. A 'Rolls-Royce on steroids' is the best description I'd heard. Oh, and that grill; so much prettier than the blanked off Vantage.
A beautiful Aston Martin that displays the DNA of future 'modern' Astons.
Bur, burl, curly all used to describe that grain figure in walnut though not always the same. Burl in the US and bur in the UK is correct for the veneer used on this dash. The shift selector in the console is also book matched. Less common and much more expensive and hard to find is flame walnut. This is a beautiful car with a beautiful interior.
Absolutely gorgeous! It’s been my favourite car ever since first seeing one parked across the road from my house when I was 5 years old in 1977. A beautiful beast.
What a beautiful machine! It might be better looking than a Vantage, which is a longstanding favourite of mine.
It's possible that my car was on that Motor Show stand. It's a '76 V8 originally owned by AM co-director Alan Curtis. The colour is called "Cambridge Blue Cosmic Fire" I believe. - Cosmic fire being a very 1970s way of saying "metallic" 🙂
I seem to remember the light blue metallic being called Tourmaline Blue but I may be very wrong!
This car has passed every MOT since 2007, without even an advisory. I suppose that I shouldn’t be surprised 🤪. Amazing video as usual.
The smile on your face says it all... what a gorgeous car.
Iain your videos just keep getting more sublime and classy.
Thank you for helping us mere mortals catch the essence of what these cars are all about.
Yaw droppingly beautiful and refined vehicle. Absolutely stunning.
I remember going to the motor show and gazing in awe at a V8 Vantage in a very pale green. I still love these cars. Truely beautiful. But with a slightly aggressive presence.
I remember (was it you?), someone did a ground up restoration of a Lambo Muria. They took it on the road & started singing opera. This had to be satisfying work.
Yes, it was me. And it is indeed very satisfying. Thanks for your interest
A beauty.........AM got it spot on. Then, not now.
Love your story of your drive over the hump back bridge. Lol
I was very fortunate to have a friend with the AM V8 that he allowed me to drive for a couple of days. It was glorious and the drive became a memory of a lifetime. The only thing that dated it was the brakes that required a proper push to slow it, but once I had become accustomed to this it was magical. The engine note is fantastic, especially in confined areas like bridges and tunnels.
Btw, the wheels on that Lagonda are awesome.
TF727 is awesome - Grand Wagoneers, Astons, FF, CJs, whatever. Great transmission
During the last months of the '60s through to the early '70s, my dad's friend used to ferry me back and forth from Little Paxton, Cambridgeshire, to Enfield, London, in a blue Aston Martin V8, like the example in this video, and a dark blue XJ12 Coupé. The Aston was my favourite, though, as it was so noisy. Many happy memories back then.
It's very clear that the underlying principle to owning one of these classic cars is: if you have to be concerned about the cost of maintaining them, you can't afford it. They weren't built with logivity in mind, no matter how high the original purchase price or current collector value. Add to that the exponential growth in technical development and complexity over the years, few average owners are capable of doing most of the work themselves. So the last type of car the average wage earner should think of buying, is that Ferrari 456 that's been found in a barn after being parked for the last 20 years.
In many respects, what you say is all true. But I've had my '76 V8 for 20 years, and, aside from normal repairs that are necessary for any vehicle that's almost 50 years old, the annual running costs are not outrageous. The cost to keep my old Jag on the road, on the other hand, was insane!
"Martin. Aston Martin."
I work with aluminium daily and I must say the aluminium work on this is stunning. Aluminium is less formabile than steel so a lot of work has gone into this body
Oh I just can’t stop fawning over your channel! I most often watch it on my big screen TV, which is a different browser, so I often miss hitting the thumbs up.
I think your channel is every bit as good as Jay Leno’s. I hope it gets the attention it deserves, it’s become one of favorites.
I hope some day you get a Lancia Delta Intergrale in your shop!
Thank you indeed! I’d love to do a collaboration with Mr Leno.
You looked very at home in that Iain. Wonderful .
Fabulous. Thanks Iain.
Frankly, a Vantage X-pack or 7.0 RSW on Ronals is as desirable a car as anything else I can think of. ❤
Lovely, lovely film. Thanks Iain.
Thank you!
Super Video Iain!
Who would have thought… a base Aston…. What a world!
But a Proper Aston nevertheless…. 🤓
Right there with you. Comfortable, attractive, fast. GT.
Agreed !
Handsome & Elegant (rare) with an engine that sings like Pavarotti in full flight when asked .. Home James Vrooom
Simply marvellous. Always wanted one. May never do. But love that these cars still exist and are cherished by the lucky few.
Perfect! The expression on your face says it all.
Takes me back to going to see my first James Bond movie in 1987 the Living Daylights👍,
What a car😮👍👍👍
i always look at these AM V8s coupes as Aston's version of an Amercian V8 muscle car from the 60s with proper V8 muscle car sound and looks. What a brute. Stunning.
Young rebellious Terrell stories are the best. Thank you for this channel. It’s a true joy.
Hey Iain, I watch all your posts. Rarely comment but thankyou, you deliver these posts in such a fitting manner. Love the condition and particularly that hue on beige, lovely.
Thank you for your positive comment.
ALMOST part 2 of your "The Persuaders"-series 😉
Mr Tyrrell I could listen to you speak about classic cars for the rest of time. Do you ever do tours of the workshop/can I come and have a look at your workshop?
Thanks. We did do workshop tours at one stage. See what we can do
You and I both attended the same show as youngsters! I remember the stir that Lagonda made, both in shape and the futurist dash! That and a Bristol with beautiful woodwork and a glove box opened by a woven pull cord!
As elegant, understated and refined as a bespoke Savile Row suit. The AM V8 coupe has a presence that instantly commands attention, and turns heads. As much as I love BRG, this example in Winchester Blue is particularly polarizing. And an authoritative bellow under the boot. What a car. Smitten! 😍
High quality and tasteful automotive pornography. Beyond the reach of almost everyone but a car so desirable and beautiful.
That paintwork is amazing. My favourite Aston Martin.
Where were the string-backs, Squire Tyrrell? Surely given your dewy-eyed appraisal of this gorgeous motor and your virginal experience of a short take off and landing, one of these belongs in your Fleet. Thanks for covering this "entry-level" GT. I remember these outside of Reg Vardy's in Houghton-Le-Spring circa 1977-78 and thinking of how out of the world they were compared to my 850 Mini. Regards from Australia.
Sorry- gloves in the post!
Greetings to you too!
I remember when I was about 16 so 1979 cycling through bushy park in SW London . I was passed by a Red one of these with the number plate RF V8 which are my initials. Never made enough money to aspire to one unfortunately.
I adore Hi Profile Tyres on these Old Cars .... Detest Modern Pointless Low Profiles !
So many 1960s designs… they got it right first time. A real pinnacle of car design.
A beautifil car in looks and sound... I want one .... I wish!
Stunning presentation Iain! One of my all time favourite cars!
A piece of motoring art that has obviously been loved and cared for since new… absolutely beautiful 🤩
A very beautiful car Iain, that suits you perfectly and reminds me of Lord Brett Sinclair in The Persuaders TV series back in the early 1970s.
I think you’re thinking of steed in the Avengers??! But I’ll take it anyway!!
@@iain_tyrrell Roger Moore drove a 1970, banana yellow, Aston Martin DBS in The Persuaders, which sold at Bonham's for a record £533,500 in 2014 . . . John Steed mainly drove Bentleys.
That was lovely! I've always liked these cars, though they remind me of the 1968 fast back mustang my mother had. Hers was that shade of blue too.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE this car probably as much as you do. I wish I could own one or drive one. Thanks Mr T!
As much as I like the sound of the IL6 of the DB4/5/6 (makes goose bumps for me), I just love this car. Ok, for me please the earlier one without all these additional lights at the front.
And what is really nice: The tires. Much rubber for comfortably cruising the continent.
14:38 Oh these bad mirrors...
What a wonderful car. Thank you for this video. My CLK320 will have to convince me tomorrow morning that it is a nice car...
I love this channel so much. Iain gives voices to these cars and their stories
Such a fine looking machine, created with absolute class.
Why is one of the most iconic part the handbrake? Just the action of it..
Still very grateful for the neighbour for lending a vintage 73, V8 in this colour for our wedding.... Just asked, and she said is ok!
One of the most beautiful British cars! Thanks Iain!
this car is just one of those cars where its just, everything works, the design is proportionally correctly, the style is dead on, and the concept and the idea is just perfectly executed, and if you got a bad one, you just bought another till you got the right one, as theirs nothing like it
its basically a boss mustang if it went to england, studied at oxford and then joined the special air services and was cast in who dares wins
Thank you so much for your fantastic ability to making me understand everything you describe.
I have bought british classic car magazines here in Denmark since the early eighties, and it's quite wonderful to see some of those interesting and beautiful classics, with your expertise added.
Thank you again.
I wish each show would be longer. I could listen to your knowledge for hours😅
That’s lovely- thank you too!
One of my all-time favorite's
Iain your knowlegde on cars is amazing, the 70s Aston V8 and Alfa GTV are my childhood start to being a petrolhead
I love seeing a car like this that’s been driven. As always, thanks to Iain for his brilliant work.