Persuaders' Aston Martin for sale
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Persuaders' Aston Martin for sale http://home.bt.com/lifestyle/motoring/motoringnews/persuaders-aston-martin-for-sale-11363886441921
The Aston Martin used by Roger Moore in the 1970s television series The Persuaders is up for sale and expected to fetch £500,000.
Finished in rare Bahama Yellow, the 1970 DBS was built specifically for use in the popular detective series.
However, Aston Martin had yet to launch its DBS V8 model, so it took a standard DBS with the smaller six-cylinder engine and made it look identical to the newer and more powerful V8 from the outside.
So, the car has the same wheels and badges as a V8 model, but with the smaller engine, and was used in all 24 episodes of the programme.
Moore played English aristocrat Lord Brett Sinclair alongside Tony Curtis' character, Danny Wilde, who drives a Ferrari Dino. Together, they worked as playboy detectives solving crime on the French Riviera.
Moore left the series when he landed the role of James Bond and the car was sold to a private owner in 1971.
It has since covered a total of 70,000 miles and has been fully restored.
This is the first time the car has been offered for sale publicly as every previous sale has been arranged privately.
It will be sold at a unique Aston Martin auction held at the firm's Newport Pagnell factory on May 17.
I wish I could Buy it, I always loved it.
Persuaders' Aston Martin for sale http://home.bt.com/lifestyle/motoring/motoringnews/persuaders-aston-martin-for-sale-11363886441921
The Aston Martin used by Roger Moore in the 1970s television series The Persuaders is up for sale and expected to fetch £500,000.
Finished in rare Bahama Yellow, the 1970 DBS was built specifically for use in the popular detective series.
However, Aston Martin had yet to launch its DBS V8 model, so it took a standard DBS with the smaller six-cylinder engine and made it look identical to the newer and more powerful V8 from the outside.
So, the car has the same wheels and badges as a V8 model, but with the smaller engine, and was used in all 24 episodes of the programme.
Moore played English aristocrat Lord Brett Sinclair alongside Tony Curtis' character, Danny Wilde, who drives a Ferrari Dino. Together, they worked as playboy detectives solving crime on the French Riviera.
Moore left the series when he landed the role of James Bond and the car was sold to a private owner in 1971.
It has since covered a total of 70,000 miles and has been fully restored.
This is the first time the car has been offered for sale publicly as every previous sale has been arranged privately.
It will be sold at a unique Aston Martin auction held at the firm's Newport Pagnell factory on May 17.
I wish I could Buy it, I always loved it.
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Ps can't believe there were only 24 episodes!
Thanks for sharing this with us TP -{
yes nice one TP
He was loved by everyone in the house, my parents, my older teen
brothers and me the kid.
I always loved that Aston, it and the jag xjs from the return of the saint. -{
Should fetch a good price, and lately, Aston DB series cars are outperforming estimates.
Great to see that DBS prices are finally going up to a level that they deserve to be. I remember just 10 years ago, you could buy a driver for GBP 10K. I (stupidly) passed up a DB5 in 1981 for $15K US. Was in College, and drove a Fiat, so I had to say no. Turns out that very car stayed in San Francisco in the very same Union Street Garage that I spotted it in all htose years ago. (My pal Max thought it was a Volvo under the cover...) Went for GBP 395,000 last Newport Pagnell Auction!!! Needed a total resto, and half the fromt bumper was hanging off, just as I remembered it. Car was resprayed white. looked awful, but was a DB5.
My car had been appraised in 2011 and two more significant concours wins, plus the market value escalating should increase the value.
Seems as though a driver DBS is around the GBP 60K mark, but a restoration will cost easily another 100,000 Pounds.
I think the DBS of that era (67-71) looks stunning i the following 3 colours, according to my favourites:
1. Olive (sorry, the OHMSS colour scheme to me is the definitive)
2. Bahama Yellow
3. Caribbean Blue
DBS IMHO does not look very good in Black or White. Hides the lovely William Towns lines.
Saw one in red, but it was later V8. Looked very aggrssive, but dated '80's styling.
Metallic Brown good on later (Series II) V8s, tan interior.
BTW, back to the DB5, I read about the "Bond Colour Scheme" for the car, and it is NOT Black interior! (it is Grey, according to AM build sheets)
My rankings of DB5 stunning colours are:
1. Silver Birch (green tint type) with Grey interior. Also Corgi scheme of Red interior!
2. Dubonnet Rosso with Grey interior (original colours of the GF DB5 effects car)
3. California Sage with Fawn interior (like a DB4GT Zagato)
3. DB Purple...a deep purple that is absolutely gorgeous on that body type. Saw a DB4 in that colour as well, and it is incredibly beautiful.
All the best!
GG
not really worth that kind of money ..... the BS1 number plate is missing
£533K for Persuaders! Aston Martin -{
Roger Moore's signature Aston Martin from hit 1970s action adventure show The Persuaders! has been sold at auction for a world record £533,000.
Of course, we are not all in it for the money, however, it would be nice to recoup the tremendous cost of the restoration. Turns out DB era Astons just keep going up and up.
I'm not selling mine.
Love the car too much.
Will be interesting to see how many of them are "discovered" for next year's auction...
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Earlier cars, like mine, are best in Olive, Caribbean Blue, and some in Silver Birch (which was the most commonly produced colour early on). red interior with the Silv Birch is gorgeous.
I have seen Caribbean Blue cars with red hides, and that is also a stunning combo.
Seen a DBS with red velour interior, and it didn't look all that bad...
Exterior colour white and black on the early cars was not that attractive, IMHO.
Later V8 cars looked great in those colours because of the trim and wheels.
If I had a DB5, it would be Silver Birch with Grey interior, a 4 Speed David Brown gearbox, and I would repro the correct gadgets, right down to the aircraft type switches on the armrest.
DB5 in Dubonnet Rosso is also gorgeous, and the DB Purple, and Ca Sage...
Ah well, a 4 Spd DB5 is now GBP 400++++
Cheers,
Tom