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    Nestling beneath the North York mosque is the  village of Thornton the Dale and for over 30   years it’s been the home of the mathewsons a  dynasty of dealers with a love of Classics they   just have a personality there’s just something  about them in all shapes and sizes well it is the  

    Best job ever really isn’t it a passion that  can be turned into brass they auction over 4   000 rare Vehicles every year start me on it  we’re gonna be with it most people will go to   a cell with something in mind but Come Away  with something different some things either  

    Got it or it hasn’t it’s what they fall in love  with on that day there’s head of the family Derek   will a runner smoother silk this car trusted  lieutenants Sons Paul working with your family  

    As it’s ups and its Downs or blimey and Dave I  bet you’re a pound it doesn’t start the fun is   the chase you just don’t know what’s on the  end of the phone what you’re gonna find when  

    You open them doors spots on that’s the find of  the century it’s the real deal just never really   two days exactly the same this is a family’s  love affair with motors that have lived a life   there’s a story behind every car in this building  testing testing most people will buy a car because  

    They can relate to it maybe a car that Dad had  we’re selling dreams right here we go [Music] foreign [Music] this week 1967 Aston Martin db6   you do feel great when you’re driving well  you put like a millionaire you think you’re  

    James Bond I think it’s worth 220 000 quid  of anyone’s money Joe you’re a 69e type   it’s a slice of Britain isn’t it it is in the  60s if I’d been able to afford one it would have  

    Been the card and my dreams right Mandy we are  cracking little lost in j40 speed owner clock oil   gauge lovely condition Isn’t it nice motor all  right this is a beauty these if you break down [Music] here

    At the garage Derek likes to think he leads from  the front if you’ve got tea and chocolate biscuits   I’ll be there for a little while he claims to  work the longest hours direct bright and early   I’ve been here since 10 past five endure the  worst weather Monsoon I’ll tell you it’s not  

    Raining it’s Monsoon out there and do the most  driving I mean I just went further last week to   Aberdeen didn’t I mile wise none of the above  have been confirmed by Dave Paul and Jack the  

    One thing’s for sure nobody here would mind  any of it for the chance to sell one of the   world’s finest classic cars today Paul will  be doing a 12-hour round trip to Somerset   very early and it looks dark out there we’re going  to pick up an Aston Martin db6 nice looking cow on  

    The face of it it’s gonna be a couple of hundred  I thought 200 220 somewhere there 230 somewhere   there yeah a lot of money out there it could  become the highest value sale they’ve ever had   here yes it’s a valuable thing but you know  I’ve driven away with with people’s cars you  

    Know to the tuna 1500 or 2 000 pound before  now when they’ve been in tears uh and um you   know we look after a 2 000 pound car the same as  I should look after those 200 000 pound car um you  

    Know they all mean the same really uh they’re  just an extra digit or two aren’t they [Music] Ken Wilson has worked hard over the years [Music]   armed with his City and guilt  certificate he set up a building company [Music]  

    It’s my little work he did well and paid himself  in accidents I’ve had Aston Martin since I was 19.   at one time I had three Aston Martin’s I’ve had  dbs6 font each other DBS V8 one of the first  

    Ones that come out Ken bought this one in 2001.  I keep her in the air because it saves the tires uh it was a bit of a basket case at the time  it was all in bits when I got it like in need  

    Of total renovation I was right down the  bare metal I actually finished it about   five years ago I think it took me a very  long time to put it back together again [Applause] there you’ve got stainless steel exhaust all the  way through even though it has only done about 25  

    000 miles it’s uh it was in a pretty poor State  because it was left in a little lock up for a   very long time it’s a lot better than it was  Ken’s estimate of the value of this car is  

    Similar to paused around 200 000 pounds perfect  examples can sell for over a hundred grand more   somebody wants one that they’re gonna drive not  worry too much about it’s an ideal vehicle it’s   just a lovely beautiful car if you want one  there’s not many around basically [Music]  

    Uh here’s your engine it’s in power plant it’s  a four liter straight six with triple su’s on   it the head’s been totally done by a engineering  company so that it now runs on unleaded without   any problems it’s been a work of Love really  I suppose unfortunately I haven’t been able to  

    Drive it much so that’s why I’m now selling it and  hope somebody else will put some more work into it   to me as long as it runs well and it  dries well that’s all it really needs astons are also in Paul’s blood

    Children here and Dave used to ride in the  back of Derek’s db6 which he still owns   it’s wet down here in it are you here Ken yeah he’s here hello all right  all right yeah pleased to meet you good man I’ll  

    Take me out off yes there is a yep that’s  the old girl yeah looks a nice car Ken yeah   yeah nice car five speed yeah it’s a proper  ZF yeah being a manual they obviously worth   more because that’s all romantic boxes yeah  fans is auto yeah that’s that’s what threw me  

    There to be fair yeah tell him to leave that  box in there wouldn’t you yeah he’s got a Zs   box I know we’ve got one don’t worry he always  did plan on converting it yeah oh yeah no he’s  

    Got a gearbox like he got one back in 1978 or  whatever you know you try and buy one now yeah   I know I know yeah you’ll be talking like 20 grand  are they as dear as that are they as soon as you  

    Sort of like uh say it’s an estimating the zeros  go on there’s another thing I must show you as   well see that if people open the boot need that  stuff that’s not going to stick it back yet right  

    There’s the original air filter and some leather  I left it in there because it’s part of it it’s   part of it if somebody wants to put it back on be  original they can that’s right yeah I say there’s  

    Original carpet I did put more sound proofing  in there yes which you’ve got a noisy diff no no   absolutely quite as amazing soundproofed over  there to try and hide the diff I don’t know I’ve  

    Done all that I stripped it right down did you  nothing wrong with it but I had it right down good   job you’ll back out I’ll shoot them Gates Again  yeah lovely I’m gonna try and screws get in here boots stuck yeah no don’t be doing  that all right [Music] she’s a wife

    They just love the cars you know they’re  hand built you just can’t get anything like   them [Music] I do you Ken there are currently  about 160 Aston sixes driving around the UK   most owners don’t go off-roading in  them now I’ve got to miss the puddles  

    Yeah yeah yeah ah don’t worry we’ll get  it pumped up when we get back [Music]   you do feel great when driving while on the road   I feel like a millionaire if  you think you’re James Bond I’d like to see it driven I mean even  if they’re going to completely redo it  

    Some stays take it out and drive it enjoy  it don’t just sit in the garage [Music]   right okay yep as you are I don’t see why we can’t  achieve you know the sort of money you want yeah  

    Yeah it can it’s a db6 Aston Martin so very  special car so fingers crossed through let’s   hope so ideal you’ll get some looks  on the road on the way back yeah [Music] anything else you need  Paul no that’s it from you Ken  

    Yeah [Music] nice to meet you okay yeah all right  I hope to hear from you soon good Joe thank you   how you feeling all right thanks a bit sad  but that’s the way it goes isn’t it yeah Paul [Music] shamely [Music] say let’s see  what happens not come back yet [Music]

    In Fontana Dale Derek’s preparing himself to  collect his own clutch of Classics from the   1960s well today we’re hoping to get what we  will get a Vespa scooter and a Vespa Scooter   combination in other words Vesper scooter and  a sidecar but that’s not all there’s a Jaguar  

    E-Type too but the details are sketchy thanks  to Derek’s unique admin methods I don’t know   what model I think it’s a roadster a series one  Roadster but we wait we get there it’d be a series   three fixed it but when it comes to e-types  there ain’t no wrong model any type will do

    Ross Calcutt from Bones they runs  a successful shipping firm but his   other passion has been collected so over his  all-time motoring heroes in the past 60 years the first to be deroged a series 2 E-Type Jag  4.2 why they eat out for you because in the  

    60s the E-Type was the car to have if I’d been  able to afford one it would have been the car   and my dreams [Music] it’s a slice of Britain  isn’t it it is you had people who put their   love and everything into manufacturing and  doing it and making sure everything was okay  

    You look at them and you think God they’re like  50 60 years old and they’re still running today   Russ wants to do more traveling  hence the sale of the E-Type   but also in his collection a two rare 1960s  vespers renovated to order in Vietnam one of them  

    Has a surprising attachment describe the appeal  of riding in a sidecar to me confused of things   it’s like being on the fairground in a Dodge on  car someone with a a young kid ideal ideal yeah  

    Super you know put them in there a young lady  be over the moon he might be over something when Russ rode around on bikes like these  in his 20s he was making a statement   it was everything to own a scooter  and be a mod if you like in those days  

    It’s all parts are growing up I think I’ve  still got a Parker yeah pair of Doc Martens Derek’s tipped up they’ve met before when  Russ was having a nose around the garage it’s a while since I saw you yeah  

    Vespers both 150s Yep this one’s a 1962 and that’s  a 1960 value’s in what’s he got to do somewhere   between five and six about that one and that one  probably somewhere around about three six yeah

    And not only had this this one about 13 years  but I’ve tried and kept it as original as   possible yeah it’s nice inside yeah she’s  tidy inside aren’t she it’s an attractive   old car I’d like to get at least 44 which I  think won’t do it yeah I’ll be wasting your  

    Time yeah I think it could get 35. yeah but if  you can live with that then I mean I’ll ever go got it that’s it oh yeah it’s okay that’s  it yeah that’s it yeah yeah you’re right  

    Russ has taken Derek’s valuation of the E-Type on  the chin but there’s still a bit of wiggle room   it looks a very straight old car to be fair so  tell you what it just might really surprise you  

    Up you come yeah come on mate yep yep I’m hoping  that whoever does get it will have as much joy as   I found out of this in the last 13 years I’ve only  done 4 000 miles but every one of those miles is  

    Being enjoyable well done still an icon it it’s  still sought after and you still get the looks   to me that’s everything in a car good [Music] back at Thornton the  Dale there’s been a rare tidy up   and Prime showroom spot number one has been  cleared something very special is arriving

    Rachel there’s a there’s a space in the front  of the garage and you’ve got a smile on your   face yeah why the master Martin db6 come  in I’ve got all the paperwork but no car   are you excited about the car a little bit  yeah why because it’s like worth a lot of  

    Money driver’s girder they’re more expensive  Rachel seems a little bit excited about a db6   yeah she is but she’s not actually  even watched for James Bond film I think it’s a little fillet it’s a beauty that   so how much is your house on there for the  market for probably about the same price

    Yeah I’ll just ring the estate agent now get it on lovely love the color I love the color  that is the color for Aston Martin full   stop that is you could not get a better  color absolutely bang on [Music] a car  

    Like this won’t be rushed through the auction  after the bus Derek needs time to do a PR job [Music] the number of people who can afford  200 grand for a classic Aston will be small but amongst them there’s  likely to be fierce competition [Applause]   yeah there’s some old car out there really

    Very special very special old car in it yeah  it drives nice that is exactly the car that   should be bought by a guy who wants to buy an  Aston mine forget the three and a half 500 000  

    Pound ass and you can’t use them can you no that  is just beautiful it’s just perfect for the job   use it as much as you can fantastic   I’m so privileged to have driven stuff like  that aren’t I really am what better job can  

    You have then yeah nice sunny day in Yorkshire  Thornton down and driving an Aston Martin db6   what more do you want that’s it in it I’ve cracked  it Happy Days can’t ask for anymore [Music] it’s auction day there are over 400 high quality  Lots [Music] as is the way at the moment they’ll  

    Be sold through online and phone bidding only  some prospective buyers have pre-booked a viewing   when I was a teenager I used to wash cars on the  weekend and I had a customer who had a TR6 I just  

    Fell in love with the car and I thought one day  I’ll have one of those for me owning a classic car   is just recapturing a bit of my youth others have  traveled just to pay homage at the mathewson’s   temple I’m from Lancaster but I’m an absolute  Heaven it’s absolutely beautiful I’ve worked  

    Here for nothing fresh out of Barnsley the pair  of renovated 1960s Vespers that came in with the   E-Type are about to go under the hammer but the  one with the sidecar comes with a note of caution  

    Everyone I’ve been on and and I’ve got myself you  know when you get to that speed you just get a bit   of that and then you’ve got enough bottle you just  keep going and it levels out a bit I like that  

    Light on the front that’s good you look alright on  it yeah I’ll sit on a combo world don’t I I know I   thought that myself I’ll see you and Sue bobbing  down the shops in that I’m not so sure she’d want  

    To get in it you know really I’m not sure she  could get in it now with her leg but uh which   could leave a leg here I suppose I don’t think  it’s really one for me I don’t think so no it’s  

    Um it’s a toy I think to be honest you put it that  way I think it’s a toy but I’m very pleased to   have it I I regard things like this as a feather  in our cap because not everyone has got one

    Miyagio 150 scooter there we are look  at that you can’t miss that in a crowd   can you there look at that little bunny  looking thing where are we going to be   at two thousand two thousand pounds two  thousand two two fifty two thousand two  

    Fifty two five two 750 on the web at two seven  fifty three thousand jump fresh bid there at   three thousand three thousand pounds three  thousand we will at three thousand pound we   will on the internet at three thousand three  thousand pound are we all done three thousand

    500 pounds short but it’s sold  to an enthusiastic Norfolk next up the more valuable and more unorthodox  1960 Vesper complete with side camera every motorcycle collection should have something  like this start me on that where we’re going to  

    Be where four four two four six four six four  thousand six hundred looking for seven bought   a rare bit of Kit 4006 is the seven four  seven four thousand seven four thousand   seven hundred provisional four seven brilliant  fun after a bit of negotiation the so-called  

    Combination goes for five grand to a vital  member of the community Helen is our local   District nurse who has decided she’s gonna do  her rounds in scooter and sidecar how far around   that’s quite far oh really yeah it really  is Pickering covers a real wide area quite  

    Far out yeah yeah and it’s like over  the malls and stuff so it could be it   Bleak and chilly at times couldn’t it but  yeah I could just see you doing it yeah foreign [Music]   the Dale another desirable vehicle has arrived  not the brown Datsun but the thing meticulously  

    Packaged in front of it so I had this uh this car  right I won’t tell you what it is because it’s top   secret until we undo it right about something like  20 odd years or something and and it restored some  

    Years ago yeah for his grandchildren and of course  they are now like you outgrown it slightly uh all   I haven’t said that you might fall in love with  it when you see it never know oh look at her last  

    Night and she’s a lovely eh well it’s a j-40 pedal  car that term they were sold through uh dealer   showrooms for a promotional things yeah got a  handbrake look and uh it’s got you have a battery  

    Is it all right flat you can get every nut  and bolt you can get all this new you know   so you can actually restore one really really  easy well what they were um a nice one will do  

    Three and a half Grand oh really yeah they’re all  numbered in there would that be 1950 then I wonder   might be able to find out a lot  more about it won’t we uh there’s   a little pull in there Jack  oh hold on what we got here

    I can’t see what it goes there we go  we’re away there you go look at that   fantastic isn’t it and uh there you can plug  the old batteries on look I won’t do it now I   don’t know which one goes but that beautiful  look set of plugs in there and everything

    That’s it all back there you are how about that  then love it pint-sized Austin’s engine has just   enough power for some faint headlights and a small  horn the dashboard speed owner clock oil gauge   petrol gauge temperature guide details wonderful  I think it’s absolutely great I do honestly  

    The metal work is from offcuts at the Long  Bridge Factory and they have their own   race series at the Goodwood Festival  lovely condition Isn’t it nice motor   all right this is a beaut it  needs to be breakdown come here inside two full-sized and very explosive cars also  

    Await Derek’s assessment the 1969  Series 2 E-Type and the 1967 Aston   Martin db6 back in the day these were  the epitome of British automotive glamor [Music]   launched in 1961 the E-Type was described by  Enzo Ferrari as the most beautiful car ever made

    But it was the Aston DB5 that was  picked out for bond in Goldfinger   both the db6 and the jaggered approximately four  liter engines both did around 150 miles an hour   celebrities bought both because they couldn’t  decide which one they preferred but the biggest  

    Differences were price and production runs 13 000  e-types sold for a couple of grand whereas only   about 3 000 DB fives and sixes were made with  a whopping 5 000 pound price tag [Music] too it’s about really our knee type should be  

    The problem with e-types and this type of  car that I’ve found on on condition and   presentation is that most of them are very second  rate you know they they honestly are they you know   they’re very very I mean it’s lovely interior  look nice interior you know it’s been done at  

    Some stage but it’s nice nice straight car panels  are pretty level it’s obviously had a big paint   job glass out by the looks of it so a very older  restoration which I don’t mind of course because  

    Now what you see is what you get so I think  it’s a nice car I like I like the nice bright   paintwork and I think most people buying an  E-Type or certainly their first E-Type would be  

    Quite happy with this color guys that are a bit  more into e-types and Jags and stuff and sports   cars would probably not be all that Keen on it  really it’s a little bit of an old man’s color  

    Uh Joe you’re a 69e type sold a good few jigs  just lately as you know they’re doing okay get   one now start me on it where we’re gonna be we’re  30 30 we’re off 30 30 31 32 32 33 33 33 looking  

    For 33.5 33 000 can’t do it thirty three thousand  need a little bit more I can’t do that one sorry   you’ll have to come and never work with this 33.  more post auction chatting results in phone better  

    David Hopkins from Cambridgeshire upping his offer  to 35 000. exactly what Derek said it was worth   table and his wife now intend to take the  E-Type on a tour of the Yorkshire Dales [Music]   let’s go top the E-Type as the main  event but there’s no denying that’s  

    What the sale of the 1967 Aston Martin  db6 has become today your cup of tea   yeah I like it you should do 200 shouldn’t  it I think it’ll do 216 just to be precise   you could buy some distance be the most  expensive vehicle matthewson’s have ever sold  

    The stocks and shares Aston mines they really are  stocks and shares but I think the db6 is worth 220   000 quid of anyone’s money it’s very much the  established shape of uh Aston Martin led by the   James Bond connection really four fives and six  DBS are they are really iconic they really are  

    Um there is something very special about Derek is the proud owner of this baby beauties for  Paul it wasn’t an entirely comfortable experience   traveling in them to just sit there like that in  the back like naughty kids really well and this  

    Was last week this was last year actually yeah it  was a special car yeah so and let’s be fair they   are a special car aren’t they I hope it’s going  to be bought by someone who’s always wanted one  

    Doesn’t want to win a concourse show but wants  to get out and use one and that’s his car that’s   a driver’s car that’s not a joker it’s a driver’s  car uh and and I hope it goes to that man [Music]  

    Yeah we go then Lot number 200 1967 Aston Martin  db6 absolutely superb it’s a well-sorted car it’s   lovely and straight it sounds nice it feels nice  it pulls nice I couldn’t knock the car very very  

    Impressed with it we’ll submit the best bid  today I’ve got 150 150 150 a bit 160 170 180   190. put it up 190. we all know what they’re  worth come on 190. we under we all know that  

    They make 200.95 190 190 I’ve got 195. 195. 200  200 200. 200 000 200 000 2005 205 000 I’ve got   I know it’s worth more anyway I’m not going to  influence anybody 205 for the first submitting  

    For the second third and last time we’re going  to submit 205 000. there we go well done bill   the very lucky buyer is Bill kitchen from  Devon in the world of Aston Martin’s 205  

    000 for a db6 like this is considered a bargain he  clearly knew what it was and he knew what the car   was worth he seemed really calm on the phone and  every time his bid was outbidded it was straight  

    On the phone yep yep yep I’ve done a quick check  with the vendor there’s a confirmation of the   sale price hello is that Bill Hi it’s Jill here  from Matthew Sims yeah he’s accepted it yeah yeah   the record-breaking deal is done

    Derek’s getting ready for Bill to pick  the car up another opportunity to hear   the pearl of the db6 engine as it Glides  effortlessly out of the showroom foreign I told you that everyone would know how  to start a car wouldn’t they I’ll give   you a little tip if you haven’t got a Tickler  put one on hang on a minute what’s a tickler you know what cars have a tickler benders

    Bend this if they sell a flying B  on the Bonnet would have a tickling what a mechanic what would you  do without a mechanic like me eh new owner Bill runs a successful business selling  and recycling tires I think we’re lined up let’s  

    Come this way a bit he hasn’t come empty-handed a  bit more that way he’s brought along a very nice   mg media from 1968 that he wants to put through  the auction so you’re getting rid of an mg yeah  

    Growing up in the world well yeah I could put it  that way couldn’t you Phil what are you looking   to get out of that as much as possible 200 000  . it’d be nice wouldn’t it straight swap but  

    Hey what if we can get for it five grand I suppose  something like that hopefully you’ll have an idea   today though is really all about the Aston this  make you smile didn’t it this is the first time  

    You’ve seen it it is yeah you say you should  never buy a car blind well depends isn’t it like   I think you’ve got to take a chance now again no  I don’t think so Derek give me the once over on it

    First DB saint he had one in 1973  for two weeks but then swapped it   for 1200 quid in the Mark II Cortina [Music] it’s been re-trimmed now that’s I’d rather have  the old interior in there than the new stuff  

    Myself with a few cracks in it but uh that’ll  do I’m not complaining I’m not complaining   let’s have a sit in it oh it’s a long  time since I’ve sat on one beautiful   absolutely lovely what’s it like being back  in it though just the smell of it isn’t it hey  

    You know I don’t even know  if it’s got power steering no and the sound of it beautiful in there bill you like a kid in a swan expensive candy  store I’m sorry I’m sorry hey bring on the  

    Electric cars eh so he admits that he’s bought  it unseen yeah but he’s very happy I bet he is   as well he’s over the moon I would think he’s  got himself a very good car a very good buy   and he knows it it is a lot of money yeah for sure  

    But you’re not spending it are you you just  recycling because you can always turn it back   into money can’t you but you’ve not done it for  that no I want to keep that and enjoy it that’s  

    The main event in it to enjoy it Bill gonna be  doing this weekend then well I’ve got a greenhouse   to paint but I think that could be put to one side  and I’m going to do a bit of driving eh thank you The auction Dales and national parks in 1954.  with nearly a thousand square miles of unspoiled   Countryside after buying the beautiful 1969 etype  at the auction David and Jane Hopkins decided that   this would be the perfect destination for  their first holiday in the Jag [Music] it  

    Didn’t quite work out how they wanted welcome to  Yorkshire welcome completely nice to be here you   could have done with a little bit better weather  definitely we’re come up here for a short break   with some fellow classic car enthusiasts doing  a short four-day tour around the Yorkshire Dales  

    Everybody’s doing fine at the moment hopefully  we won’t get lost no no technical equipment no   sat navs anything like that so hopefully I’ve  gone back 50 years yes definitely yes definitely on this exclusive package tour the E-Type is a  popular choice they are quite a good car that  

    You can you know tour in there is a reasonable  amount of room and we’ve got a dog and all our   luggage so you do need quite a lot of space um  and you definitely wouldn’t want an open top car  

    Um like this in Yorkshire in May or we might need  the boat that’s in background but the e-types do   leak a bit ours has actually not been too  bad has it I had a small puddle under my  

    Feet yesterday but the cars next door to us yeah  they’re bailing out literally with a mug [Music]   but looking on the bright side off we  go they’re still having some sort of   holiday in one of the world’s greatest  classic cars on to the next destination  

    A robbery Kettle Bridge today sees David and  Jen embarking on a 100 mile drive to Helmsley this is the first two plus two series two they’ve  owned but they do have two other e-types in the   garage at home it’s got more space in it  because it’s two plus two slightly more  

    Headroom not because I’m that tall um because  it does give you a little bit more space for   the wife’s luggage and shopping and the dog  even though it’s only a very small dog [Music]   it is one of the prettiest cars out there they’re  fairly straightforward mechanically so you don’t  

    Have to be a lab technician to operate there’s no  gizmos in them I don’t intend bringing it to A1   condition I bought the car to use um this  last two or three days touring around the   Yorkshire Dales in the horrendous wet weather  we’ve had and would proved that it still keeps  

    Going hopefully for what we paid for it it will  hold its value and not cost us a fortune to run thank you as for the 1960 Vesper and sidecar it’s not  strayed far from home new owner Helen Miller  

    He’s known to just about everyone in a 30-mile  radius of the garage so I’m an advanced nurse   practitioner at Pickering Medical Practice  see patients diagnose send for tests it’s a   rural practice so you can be out in the sticks  trying to find some house that’s nowhere Helen  

    Bought the Vesper to do her rounds on her palm and  Neil was not impressed thought it was a bad idea   right didn’t think it looks safe no um scooters  and tank as adult thing mix no but it is a lovely  

    Little thing my dad was always into Vespers and  once a month she’d take me to Maxie’s for Black   Forest gateau and Cake he passed away sadly three  years ago and it’s just one of those memories I’ve  

    Always had we always had our time together and  he used to make that for me and only me yeah yeah   just reminds me of him [Music] there is one small  fly in the ointment though so I can’t ride a bike  

    I’m sorry so I can’t ride a bike but I will do  I mean this will happen this year I’ll pass my   test and I’ll pass my theory and then um I’ll  go do my visits in my blue bell bell for short  

    Might cheer up for patients how are you getting  around in it at the moment though my partner   Neil Parker Parker yeah Thunderbirds yeah so  lady Penelope’s chauffeur was called Parker   and you are Parker up to now I am yes so you’re  hoping that’s your buffer test pretty soon um  

    Immediately I’ll have the bag in the side car I’m  up driving it what have they said at work strange   odd but yeah they’re all for it they’re fine you  know everybody’s been working really really hard  

    Especially with the pandemic and if it brings a  bit of joy and a bit of fun then crack on [Music]   and finally the record-breaking 205 000  pound Aston db6 has been getting used to   his new surroundings in Devon owner bill has  been enjoying the complete sensory experience

    Music like a concerto Beautiful Noise lovely smell [Music] I’ve got it all on it   one would hope for the price but on  this test run there was a small problem uh well the brakes will start to stick  on a little bit so we had to just release  

    The pressure a little bit on the servo that’s  the problem there’s any Servo problems no big   deal it’s got twin servos on this so you only  need front brakes anyway don’t you you know after the unwelcoming tune  glamor was soon reinstated Bill’s thoughts turned to expensive  modifications say if anything ever  

    Happened to the engine would take it up  to a 4.2 to the 390s now to Advantage back   uh but I’d probably send that away to a  specialist and get it done Bill loves the   Aston but being a man who’s made his money out of  tires and something else that’s been bugging him  

    Uh well at the moment it’s got cross ply tires on  it which is a little bit emotional I think that’s   the world we can use emotional so the time we get  some radial tires on it and maybe it could do with  

    Some power steering on it as well because I can’t  uh see my wife being able to drive it if she wants   to have a go in it you’re not letting around it  just yet not just yet I’m sure I’m going around  

    Tesco’s in there let’s put it that way what’s the  long term plan then what do you see yourself doing   with it over the next two three five years  let’s ask my bank manager that I suppose  

    No no really uh realistically it’s a keeper in it  you know something I want it’s something I want   to keep simple as that and maybe uh my grandkids  or my kids are maybe enjoy it or maybe they’ll  

    Sell it and pocket it who knows that that’s the  idea you know we want to drive it I want to go   out in it enjoy it yeah sure that’s the plan  [Music] that said when you own a car like this  

    Doesn’t even have to be moving to  appreciate it when you’re charming It Off   the curves and the shape of it you can feel it  all it’s just absolutely makes you smile [Music]

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