Light As A Feather

Andre The Giant, Aston Martin DB5

A young Andre the Giant holding up the front of an Aston Martin DB5. Not much is known as to when this picture was taken, but at an educated guess, it's at a car dealership or Motor show of some kind. Also, I think the car is RHD, which would tie-in with the fact that he wrestled in the likes of the UK and Australia in the late 1960's; there also another picture of him posing with a 1920's car of unknown identity.
The irony of him posing with a DB5 is not lost on me; Andre could have made quite the Bond baddie.

-Amazosan

Barn-find Aston DB5 - The Anti-Bond Car

From Bromley Pageant last weekend; a 'barn find' Aston DB5 went at auction for £325k and will cost another £200k to restore. I say don't; while the patina was incredible, condition-wise the car really didn't look that bad. As a comparison, it sat alongside an over-restored version, with lustrous paint and chrome wires; I know which one I preferred.
Well to save a couple of bob to spend on y'know, secret agent-type stuff, just do the MOT work and leave as is. Then roll up at the next AMOC meeting in a tweed jacket and leather trousers with an effigy of a certain secret agent hanging from a noose from the rear-view mirror. And wait for the champagne flutes to hit the floor.
The anti-Bond car, if you will.

- Amazosan

'Hello Halfords, do you have a service kit for a W.O. Bentley-designed twin-cam six? Hello? Hello?'