A&Q about 350Z
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An Artic pulled up on the weighbridge next to me this morning with an Interesting load of Scrap metal....
Apparently from the Factory but no other details were given... White one was all caged up inside. Sorry about the standard of Pics were taken on the phone.
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Id have been out bribing the driver for one to "fall off the back of the lorry"......
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Even a set of rims! Imagine the bragging rights saying you've got aston martin rims on your mk2?!?
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oh my god!!! what a waste of some perfectly formed cars!
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Some of them don't even look that badley damaged ffs!
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One scrap yard owner will be spending this evening peicing together a complete goodun, I know I would, even if I just stuck an old diesel in it, bolted an A frame and winch to the back and used it as mule in the yard.... Imagine the body of one of them bolted to the chassis of a landrover!
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I think they have to dispose of the cars used for testing due to some government law as someone once filed a lawsuit after buying an ex test car and something went seriously wrong with it which left them in a bad way or something. Cant remember what exactly it was or what manufacturer it was though.
It could of been a load of rubbish but i have read somewhere else before about scrapping the test cars after they have been finsihed with
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It could of been a load of rubbish but i have read somewhere else before about scrapping the test cars after they have been finsihed with
Yeh I've read that too.
Whats the bets the scrappie owner ends up driving around in an aston martin cut n shut, if he already doesn'y.
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should have chucked him a few quid and asked for the brakes off of those! each caliper is worth around 500 quid as far as i can remember!
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scrap metal my @rse...
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I cant believe that, Thats crazy!!
will all of that be turned into scrap metal then? Is that what he was weighing it up for?
A friend in work is good mates with the bloke who signs his name on every plaque that goes on every car saying it passed quality control.
You wouldnt believe the amount of work that goes into them...
Checking panel meetings with a feeler gauge!!!
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thats unusual for aston, mate of mine used to work in newport pagnell and said they weren`t the best made cars in the world by far....
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thats unusual for aston, mate of mine used to work in newport pagnell and said they weren`t the best made cars in the world by far....
They're sh*t - or at least the DB7s at Bloxham were..
Regarding the litigation thing, tis true - when I used to work there all the scrap rims used to get a sledgehammer put through them before they got weighed in. The law apparently states that if someone gets injured through their use (even if the rims were robbed) the company is responsible. F*cking nanny state
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down with the government i say.....what say ye?
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yep tis true about anything tested in the automotive trade.
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thats unusual for aston, mate of mine used to work in newport pagnell and said they weren`t the best made cars in the world by far....
They're sh*t - or at least the DB7s at Bloxham were..
Regarding the litigation thing, tis true - when I used to work there all the scrap rims used to get a sledgehammer put through them before they got weighed in. The law apparently states that if someone gets injured through their use (even if the rims were robbed) the company is responsible. F*cking nanny state
When I was recycling tyres I once came across 600 18"-20" Hardly if any Partworn Bridgestone and Continental Tyres apparently from Jaguar. I shot my load at the thought of a little £6k bonus for selling them to my Part worn guys......
But each one Had been drilled through the sidewall at least 4 times......
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I cant believe that, Thats crazy!!
will all of that be turned into scrap metal then? Is that what he was weighing it up for?
The truck carrying them was the Scrap Recyclers own truck.... Its a huge company and Im guessing they must have some very nice contracts for disposing stuff such as this....
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I cant believe that, Thats crazy!!
will all of that be turned into scrap metal then? Is that what he was weighing it up for?
A friend in work is good mates with the bloke who signs his name on every plaque that goes on every car saying it passed quality control.
You wouldnt believe the amount of work that goes into them...
Checking panel meetings with a feeler gauge!!!
sounds like my job in pastry
thats unusual for aston, mate of mine used to work in newport pagnell and said they weren`t the best made cars in the world by far....
They're sh*t - or at least the DB7s at Bloxham were..
Regarding the litigation thing, tis true - when I used to work there all the scrap rims used to get a sledgehammer put through them before they got weighed in. The law apparently states that if someone gets injured through their use (even if the rims were robbed) the company is responsible. F*cking nanny state
my neighbour owned the land that factory is built on when i lived in that village
at school one of my mates dad worked at the newport factory, the amount of "spares" he had kicking around made yourself a nice little motor!
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I drove a (then new) DB7 Volante when I was about 19, flatmate's BF's car - great to drive, a fantastic interior, apart from the parts bin bits you could recognise instantly. But it only had 12k on it, and the doors had already started to drop - not what you expect on a £100k car. Worse still, it had tan leather seats. The flatmate's BF got into it once in wet black jeans (new) after a rainstorm, and they stained the seats for good.
He went to an AM driver's day at Goodwood, pointed it out to one of the top bods before they even went on the track, and before they got to home time a brand new pair of front seats were brought down and put in for him. No charge, no warranty paperwork, nothing....... bad quality, but top service!
thats unusual for aston, mate of mine used to work in newport pagnell and said they weren`t the best made cars in the world by far....
They're sh*t - or at least the DB7s at Bloxham were..
Regarding the litigation thing, tis true - when I used to work there all the scrap rims used to get a sledgehammer put through them before they got weighed in. The law apparently states that if someone gets injured through their use (even if the rims were robbed) the company is responsible. F*cking nanny state
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Oh aye - it was the "Dunhill" edition, with a cigar humidor in it - and he didn't even smoke! Last time I saw him he had a Diablo VT, and that was a scary drive........ and had a new Mini Cooper as his daily, while the wife had some ****ebox MPV thing.... even though she earns even more than he does . I would at least have made her get that Espace with the F1 engine in it..........
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they'll be test mules and can never be sold off, both for safety and because no tax has been payed on them.
Nothing unusual about that all car manufacturers do that.
My pool car when I worked at Rover was a rover 400 series fitted with the high powered honda TVEC engine and around 250BHP
All cars had to be scrapped afterwards
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my neighbour owned the land that factory is built on when i lived in that village
at school one of my mates dad worked at the newport factory, the amount of "spares" he had kicking around made yourself a nice little motor!
Are we talking Bloxham or Newport Pagnell here? I think the Bloxham site used to be owned by an animal feed place or similar before it was sold to Jag, then used by Aston Monkey.. the name escapes me now though, after a night of poker and drinking
"My mate Dave" left with some interesting bits, including a pair of "DB7 Handbuilt in England for the Las Vegas Motorshow 1999" sill plaques
I drove a (then new) DB7 Volante when I was about 19, flatmate's BF's car - great to drive, a fantastic interior, apart from the parts bin bits you could recognise instantly. But it only had 12k on it, and the doors had already started to drop - not what you expect on a £100k car. Worse still, it had tan leather seats. The flatmate's BF got into it once in wet black jeans (new) after a rainstorm, and they stained the seats for good.
He went to an AM driver's day at Goodwood, pointed it out to one of the top bods before they even went on the track, and before they got to home time a brand new pair of front seats were brought down and put in for him. No charge, no warranty paperwork, nothing....... bad quality, but top service!
Yeah, the build quality was sh*te for a £100k car, but then I suppose with such low volume production its cheaper to pay a man to bodge every car on line than to mess about with tooling changes etc..
I used to work on trim, and everything was held together with superglue and double sided tape.. used to get veneer kits in (pressed ally substrait with laquered walnut veneer on top) that had lifting varnish at the edges, the standard procedure was to bleed some permanent marker in to disguise the opacity and re-laquer the edges
To be fair, I think they were reasonable mechanically, although was talking to Geoff Goddard (ex. TWR, Cosworth and others) at uni, and he reckoned the later V12 engine has crap main bearing life due to a misaligment issue..
Had a thoroughly sh*t time working there, although there were a few memorable moments - like fitting the wrong trim to Mr Dell's car, or writing "Mark blows goats" in the suede of Ulrich Bez's (AML Chief executive) car with my finger, then finding it wouldn't come out
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Unbelievable amounts of scrap <drool>
I know the litigation thing, but don't tell me you haven't been down the yard for a hubcap or two!!
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Maybe they're the ones that James Bond wrote off........
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make an offer for the brakes and wheels how cool would they be on a mk2