the moment where I knew it was going to
be my car was about ten steps towards to
double glass doors seeing the car parked
outside in the driveway under a deck
with lamps in it
that looked at that car I loved the
lines I said yes that's my car
my wife and I bought it 34 years ago I
was looking for a nice exotic car
because we came from South America where
we had left and I didn't have a car down
there and the one that I found that I
liked was the Maserati Ghibli just at
that time the price was a little too
high the guy I bought it from he took it
to a Cayuga Raceway and actually did
racing with it on the straight line and
he didn't really know how to look after
a car like that either so I think he
abused her a bit so one day I was
driving on Eglinton in Toronto and I saw
a rover drive by and I saw the color and
I said that's the color we want so I
made a u-turn and I went after the guy
finally got him to stop and I asked him
what color his Rover was and he said it
was a recently reread so we started out
with this color recently red we added
more blue and we ended up with the color
that we have now so it's a homemade
color
it's a 5.4 liter engine all aluminum it
has four twin carburetors wiper and the
power is somewhere above 300 horsepower
but Aston Martin always says that it's
enough
at that time Aston Martin had the policy
that one engine was built by one man and
the man that built the engine on this
one here was actually a gentleman by the
name of Fred waters when my wife and I
actually went to Newport Pagnell in
England we met Fred waters who came out
for a beer so he actually remembered the
car
it's a big car on the inside it's got
brutal power it's a heavy car it is
heavy to steer but it's just it's just
perfect for me and they pulled that like
you step into them they move
yeah we Christians this Aston Martin
rest Lee who rest Lee who means little
horse gold
it's a children's story that I read when
I was a little boy in Europe it goes out
in the world and it loses a wheel and it
breaks the tail off and it needs repairs
and I figured that was just about the
right thing for an Aston Martin that's
40 years old so one thing that people
need to know about Aston Martin's
especially vintage Aston Martin's you
never really own them
you're just a custodian for the next
generation these cars our cars for life