Aston Martin
I remember watching the early films “Golden Finger”, “Lightning Ball” on the screen when I was young; i remember. My mother and her sister will take my cousin and me to the Seaside Theater in the Bronx to see the matinee on Saturday. In addition to the 007 movie, I have all the small things, such as a flat knife, Lugar with a sight glass and a silencer, and a 007 ID card wallet, There is also a toy attendant with other beautiful spy items. I also have a matchbox. Bond DB5 Aston Martin has beautiful spy toys, smoke screens, catapult seats, bulletproof rear glass, oil leakage devices, machine guns, and knockers that can extend to the side of the car chase. James Bond is still the boss. When I have a chance, I still like to watch early films.
In short, this is the story of my Aston Martin. In 1972, my uncle considered saving the red DB4 Aston Martin in 1959 in the body repair shop. The garage began installing the 327 small Chevrolet engine instead of the beautiful two-phase cam tandem 6. I remember going to see it with my dad, dad and uncle. It’s amazing. I’m crazy about Aston Martin. They’ve started reducing the firewall to make room for V8. I’m thinking. Sarah. They want $600.00. The reason why they installed the Chevrolet engine is that the original owner used a stick to pass through the engine block of Aston. In the early 1970s, the DB4 in 1959 was not worth much, but it was expensive to replace the engine, which was difficult to buy. My uncle’s plan was to leave the Aston engine in Aston in the future, and temporarily install the 4.2 straight land. Yes. In those years, I thought the engines of Aston and Jaguar were very similar. Except that he put the engine of a badly damaged 4.2 sedan in the cargo compartment. Remember, My father and his brother did import salvage business. This sounds like a great plan. So after several months of negotiations, Uncle Ed bought it. Some of you know that my uncle died young in the house fire in March 1974. My father was responsible for breaking up the inheritance of his brothers. I asked my father, who was 82 years old and did a good job, why he could not persist. He could no longer remember those details. I remember very clearly that he begged his father to put him and Uncle Ed’s Burp Bunneville motorcycle together. At that time, I was 15 years old. , The boys dream of driving a triumphal motorcycle with Aston Martin. I really think that looking back on his father’s life, he would be very surprised. It must be difficult to lose his brother and business partners. Many things happened when they closed their business and liquidated their assets. Two years after Ed died, ah. Bogie sold our house in New Jersey and started life again in Clearwater, Florida. So for me, Aston Martin was the only car that escaped. On the other hand, for my father, I think he tried to leave everything behind and move on.
Thank you all for sharing this story, Tony.