As we were exiting the incredibly trippy Schtroumpfs residential development, our eye caught something sleek and silver and slowly floating down the road on a flatbed. This Aston Martin V8 Vantage seems to be in the midst of a restoration and probably becoming a new man's Project Car Hell. We couldn't quite nail down the vintage, but it looks like early 70's for this lithe British beast. The fella with the Touareg seemed happy with the attention the car garnered, but we would have lost our minds driving that big trailer around the cramped streets of Geneva.
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Geneva Project Hell? Aston Martin V8 Vantage
5:30 PM on Fri Mar 7 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
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How cool is that? I want one.
Based on the wheels and height of the hood scoop, I'm going to say '78. Could be wrong, but I'm going to throw that out there.
Anyway, beautiful car. Great color. Good job!
So THATS how Q got the Stinger Missles behind the lights and the lasers in the wheel
Open scoop on hood pegs it @ 75 --76
That's some trailer.
@beercheck: Seems a bit over-spec'ed for an Aston.
Strange to see a Tourag towing anything. Probably the TDi version.
That has to be one of the most beautiful cars I have ever seen.
I've never seen a car trailer that big in Europe.
@biminitwst: Too beautiful for this world, as seen by it's reluctance to take the streets for its own.
Dream on Vantage, dream on.
Doesn't the front of that look like a Chevy Vega?
Bourne tows bond.
@mweaver: more like a mustang
i like the moon eyes decals on the trailer
I like the steelies on the trailer. A couple sets of dog dishes and she's done.
Bestest Aston there ever was.
Get that bitch back into the JFG, now!
Hey guys, don't forget to stop by the awesome car museum next to the Geneva Airport. Lots of Italian and miscellaneous European exotica.
GORGEOUS! I would SO tap that... and if any damn dragons get in the way, they're history.
This is one of my all time favourites... and surely my fav. Aston of all. Been once at a Aston meeting in S. Moritz.... where there were 30 of them.. . heaven!
Why is it that no matter how many totally gorgeous cars I see here, it's always the incomplete ones that get me.
I actually gasped when these pics showed up.
Damn,So that is what they call a trailer queen.
That is so much prettier than the DB9 I saw today, and about as common around here (rural SW NH).
Wow.
What is with the bumps on the roof? Is that just some ice, or is there some sort of body damage?
It's a freakin' Aston Martin Vantage, and almost 20% of these comments discuss the trailer. The heart of Jalopnik is still beatin'. Contented sigh.
I really like the looks of the 70's Aston Martins.
When I was a teenager, the guy across the street from us had a 70's Vantage... When he started that thing up, I could hear it anywhere in the house. It was the most comforting sound ever. I would love to have it on a white noise machine. Sleep like a baby, mm-mmmm.
The big trailer is probably the Toe-Rag's usual ride.
What are those bumps on the roof? It almost looks freshly painted but surely not.
@beercheck: it is oddly proportioned- not only to the car, but look at the balance of it. there's three tiny wheels almost in the dead center of a gigantic, but thin trailer, with crazy graphics. oh, and some silver thing on top.
actually, i do like these AM's, but i wouldn't go so far as to call them the best. too much muscle car influence in the design. and too many awkward memories of Timothy Dalton. i'd go for a 60's or a current one, thank you.
Looks like a Mustang II from the front.
Also, excellent trailer:car ratio.
The Vantage is around 15-16 feet long. To me that trailer looks 28-30 feet based on the car size. I've towed 20-26ft trailers plenty of times in dense areas and it's pretty stressful even without a restored Aston Martin on them. At least with the much smaller Touareg towing it he has some maneuverability. Do it with a lwb
1-ton F350 and the fun just ain't there.
That's a pre-Oscar India V8, not a Vantage. (Or at least, if it IS a Vantage, it's one of the first 43 built (but not one of the first 8) and it's missing its Vantage-specific body parts.) Call it a '76 or so, but it's got '80s wheels on it.
I had one of the early V8 Vantages. There's a BIG difference between a V8 and a V8 Vantage. They're all great cars, though, at least until the rust starts.
Fine, I'll say it because nobody else did.
DATSUN DATSUN DATSUN.
Actually, the most common reaction people had to mine was "What year Mustang is that?" *pause* "Oh, wait... what the hell is that?"
how much time did they have to spend to find that parking spot?
@eVox: That particular spot was easy to find as it was in traffic.
1,033.256 kudos points if he enters it in LeMons.
I cant tell which is more Bruce the trailer or the Aston
the trailer looks to be almost overkill in size but what the hey
project car from hell geneva 2068:
bugatti veyron pur sang or lamborghini reventon???
@MAxichamp
The car Museum in Geneva is closed for two years now...in fact there were two car museum ther and they bouth closed in one year.
the v8 vantage is interesting because it went from fuel injection to carbies, i do not know any other cars that did this.
@GreenVanMan: i dont mean troublesome fuelie like the imp, but from bosch to webers.
@GreenVanMan: Triumph 2500. Originally 2.5Pi, with Lucas injeccy, then carbs as the 2500. (engine fires)
BL didn't even trust Lucas when the cars were new!
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