Jalopnik: db7

Aston Martin DB7 Wheel Cracks Up In Crash

Ben Wojdyla — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:40:00 EST

These images of a sideswiped Aston Martin DB7 have us cringing at the sight of a catastrophic wheel failure that must have really stung at the time. We're still having nightmares over the stud failures on our Lemons Celica which nearly did us in (way to soldier through, Didorosi), but these bring it to another level. The shapely wheels are completely shattered off the hub and the wrinkled haunches don't help us feel better about the situation. People of the Netherlands, please don't crash your DB7's like this anymore; it hurts us.

[Carscoop]

Gold Leaf "Premium Bond" Aston Martin DB7 Tackier Than Roger Moore

Wes Siler — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:00:00 EDT

Gold isn’t known to the be the most durable of materials, which is probably why over-the-top tuning firm Alchemist left it off the bumpers and rockers. The 24-carat gold leaf on this Aston Martin DB7 is actually part platinum for longevity, but we still wouldn’t advise running it through a car wash, especially since we’re not sure how the seven (as in 007) diamonds are attached to the bodywork. Alchemist will be debuting its "Premium Bond" at London’s MPH car show next week at, what we can only assume, will be a champagne and cocaine-fueled five hooker Nazi orgy.

[via MPH]

UK Businessman Decapitates Self With Aston Martin DB7

Ray Wert — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 09:00:00 EDT

An inquest into the death of Welsh gym owner Gerald Mellin has found the businessman decapitated himself in his Aston Martin DB7 after an argument with his estranged wife. According to the court, Mellin tied one end of a rope to a tree, climbed into his DB7 and wrapped the other end around his neck. Mellin then jammed the pedal down on the $173,000 car, driving into a busy main road, forcing other drivers to watch his horrific death. Police found his headless body still in the driving seat and his head on the back seat. But what caused Millen to kill himself with such heinous vehicular methodology?

Well, according to Mrs Mellin:

"We had split up and been to court. He wanted me to walk away from the farmhouse and the business and leave me with nothing...so we met in a pub after a court hearing and he started having a tantrum. As we made our way back to our cars he opened the boot and said: "There's my rope, that's what I'm going to kill myself with." I told him to grow up and give me the rope. But he just laughed."

Apparently, the court also ruled the day before his death that Mrs Mellin would be awarded an extra £100 ($192.00) a week in maintenance from her husband. Umm, talk about a low bar to set for suicide, right? [Daily Mail, Daily Star]

Dirt. Joe Dirt: The DB7 Camino!

Davey G. Johnson — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 17:42:29 EST

Reader David got all engrossed in Top Gear's "Carbage" section after our A4 Camino post this morning and managed to dig up this masterpiece of Aston-meddling. A quad-cab DB7 pick-'em-up. No doubt the spiritual heir to a mantle too frightfully mind-boggling for us to bear thinking about, this may be the cake-takingest ElCo-type vehicle we've ever seen. We're speechless.

Aston Martin DB7 pick-up [Top Gear]

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