Just reading Practical Classics.
At a recent H&H auction an Aston DBS with 5.3 V8 and slushomatic sold for £2600.
OK, so the MOT runs out the end of August, but, it passed last year, how much could it fail on this time.....
Astons for Shite old MR2 money.....
Jul 14, 2005
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Depends if the previous MOT was legit, and / or, the standard of the testers in both cases, really...
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Peter
yes but shote old MR2 would be newer and for £2600 a non turbo MR2 would probably be in pretty good condition if say a 1990 MK2. the aston on the other hand would be asking for trouble! although i bet astons part prices are cheaper than toyota :)
Buy it and let us know.
Tom De Moor
PS How much could it fail? Everything between nothing and a scary, awful lot (or even some more).
Heres a nice site for those who don't know much about the DBS (like me!)
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It's not amazingly good looking imo, and I would rather buy a proper example of a car that old than £2600 on somthing that could potentially cost quite a bit more to put right.
Nope, but it'll do at a push if I can't find a Daewoo I like ;)
Ah but the Aston "Special services" dept makes TTE and TRD seem like=20 greasy back street operations.
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But its just a s**te old MR2 non-turbo. Whereas the Aston is an Aston :)
Nah. It's an Aston shaped thing you shovel money into until your wife leaves you and you go insane.
Fraser
don't like it, cars that old have old suspension, old brakes and old powerplants which = s**te IMO
Well that is a sweeping generalisation, but I havn't driven enough cars older than me to offer a contradictory arguement. Although I would disagree with the suggestion that old powerplants are "s**te", just go and listen to a big block hemi V8 ticket over....
But it has a *huge* V8, and no emissions control stuff to strangle it.
Hopefully next week the Jensen will be back in my hands.. I'll borrow some quality microphones and a mini disc recorder and post the results.
7.2 V8, no emissions s**te, not much in the way of silencing... Ho yuss..
Can you post some pics too pweese!?
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Any 'real' Aston tends to be a money pit. Cheap ones a deep pit. The V-8s, bottomless.
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