Spotted - four door Aston V8 ?

[danielw]

Maybe I was a bit tired walking along Oxford Street this morning, but I saw what looked like a slightly stretched four door Aston V8.

Numberplate ANON, dark glass etc. Very strange, admitedly from a distance and with a squint it looked slightly like a Mark-III Cortina, Was I imagining it, or is this a well known car?

On a completely different note, I am a 928GT owner and just a little curious whether any Aston owners have come from 928's? Any interesting comparison's?

[Andrew Noakes]

A four-door Lagonda was launched in 1974, but only seven were built. Looked like a stretched Aston V8, with a different grille (though strictly speaking it was the other way round - the Aston V8 was a shortened Lagonda).

There was also a prototype four-door DBS, MP230, which David Brown ran in 1969.

See page 99 of my book!

[williamp]

Aston also produced a 4 door Virage based Lagonda in the early/ mnid 90s.

For more details, see here:

www.astonmartins.com/virage/virage_4_door.htm

Hope this helps

Will

[rico]

Ahhh 4NON

I've seen that a lot in central london. It's owned by a big CEO who doesn't want fame... nice plate eh

There was a feature in Octane about it. It's had a full restoration with a different V8... its very reliable apparantly.

Not sure on more specific details, haven't got the mag to hand. Worth doing a search in archives though

[Andrew Noakes]

rico said:

There was a feature in Octane about it. It's had a full restoration with a different V8...

I'll have to find that. Three of the seven cars are thought to have 7.0-litre Richard Williams engines, is it one of those?

There was also an eighth shell which Stratstone found a few years ago and were going to build up.

[rico]

Andrew Noakes said:

I'll have to find that. Three of the seven cars are thought to have 7.0-litre Richard Williams engines, is it one of those? There was also an eighth shell which Stratstone found a few years ago and were going to build up.

I can't remember which engine but it definitely had a modern engine and suspension. The interior was custom made with lots of 7in tv monitors etc.

Basically, the owner was wasting £50k a year in depreciation on Bentley Arnages so wanted a custom classic that he could drive daily. It cost in the region of £200k.