Collecting Community | Ep.1 Alex Dainty - Redefining the drive.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ก.ย. 2022
- Community is very important to us at Collecting Cars, we love meeting new people and hearing their stories, it’s why we love our Coffee Run events so much.
James recently met Alex Dainty through a shared love for the Alpine A110. Alex discusses what driving means to him and tells us how his relationship with cars has evolved since he was forced into using hand controls.
Thank you Alex for sharing your story. If you have an interesting car or story to tell please get in touch.
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what an extraordinary individual..... great attitude and great car!
Indeed
Absolute dude. Your Alpine looks fantastic! Props.
Grand Seiko GMT (a very special one at that) and a beauty of a car. This man is officially my most favourite person ever.
Yeah, beautiful watch. Even more so in the context of the car. Excellent taste indeed.
Cool to see the nice guy behind this great (and famous) Alpine. 👌🏽
This video surprised me. Thanks for sharing Alex.
Been following Alex on Instagram for a while, man's an icon. Huge inspiration 👏👏❤️
Would really love to see more of this owner content. Love seeing fellow car enthusiasts enjoying their machines. Very special stuff
Great video. Nice number plate
Beautiful car and great guy, pure petrolhead, met him briefly at PP once before. Hope to bump into him again sometime.
Just an awesome peace of documenting nice job lads 🤝🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾💯💯💯💯💯
What a brilliant lad. Really relaxed on camera and come across as a top chap. Great to see the car.
Inspirational chasing his enjoyment of driving even through adversity. Proper enthusiasts⌚️ too the GS 👌🏻
Love the number plate :) Love the car too. Good on you.
Enjoy the drive . It’s a journey not the destination that’s most important. Great mix of colour green and gold wheels
Amazing, what a great attitude. I love the colour combination of the car and wheels
That green with gold wheels. Yeah, my mouth is watering
Lovely car, great outlook and top marks for the numberplate 😄
Lovely video 👍
Top, top man. What an inspiration. Loving his mods on the Alpine.
It stands to reason the man who owns an atelier specced A110, would also own a GS👌
Just saw this car at Dunstable Downs visitor centre.
It looks amazing, I have always liked the Alpine shape and with the extras and this colour schemes it's perfect. The green even on a dull day Sat 4th March 23, looks fantastic. Apparently more intelligent people drive green cars, I have had two, but currently Tanzanite blue!
I must admit, for a moment I thought what AH has parked their flash car in a disabled space......then saw the reg, the window sticker and finally the blue badge.
Googled the car when home and watched this video. It's difficult to make a positive after such a horrible accident but I can see how a car like this gives you freedom and enjoyment and absolute equality on the road.
I hope to see you and the car out and about on the roads.
I wish I had taken some photos.
Happy motoring.
Many thanks MJS, I really appreciate the kind words.
Love this, your A110 looks stunning! 👍
Such a beautiful colour ! Love it !!
Kudos to a true enthusiast! When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. Alex, may the road rise up to meet you.
Beautiful spec, clearly a big fan of green, t shirt, car, watch ⌚ is epic, very impressed mate, Rj in Oz
I like the GS too :)
I'm never selling it, that's for sure! Managed to get the last one in the UK a while back.
Wow. What an amazing story 🤯💪🏼
Yep....This is a great story about a badass car loving guy with an awesome green A110s..simple as that
Love the Alpine
The Alpine A110 GT is a fantastic car but your perseverance is inspirational. Well done!
Love the stance on that car. Awesome story and driver
Legend..both of them!
What an awesome video! Please keep them coming!
That’s the nicest looking alpine I’ve seen.
I am also an amputee and am considering the A110 (among other sports cars -- FINALLY). Man, I would love to talk to Alex about his car journey, and amp driving life, in general. I'm moving from a full-size Dodge Ram with twist-grip/push style controls that I've been using for the better part of 20 years, and am considering steering wheel ring controls for the next vehicle in order to keep both hands on the wheel. I'm wondering how Alex's push/pull setup does with the paddle shifters and other stalk usage. My biggest issue right now with my current setup is activating the turn signals whilst still needing to throttle and/or brake (it's a left-hand drive vehicle with left side controls). This was an awesome video to come across. Thanks for covering Alex and his story!
Thanks for sharing your story and your passion. Lovely cars and tasteful upgrades. Enjoy!
what a beautiful car. Alpine, take note
Wow inspirational story. ❤
Beautiful car, hope he enjoys it for many years.
Awesome. Well done
Lovely to see an unusual colour, we only seem to get white ones here in Australia, my dream car. Wonderful that Alex can enjoy this car
Great episode!
kudos
hope you have many more happy memories with this and future cars 👍🏿
Top man and top car! I am speechless and humbled...!
Amazing car and Amazing owner.😎
beautiful spec!
Great looking car, gorgeous colour.
Re: hand controls, has anyone ever adapted motorcycle type controls instead of a round steering wheel?
You'd have gas, clutch and brake on the bars, only gear shift left to modify...
Cheers!
That’s my dream car. Thanks for sharing
Car looks amazing
Great choice of car, and colour. Glad you're still motivated to want to drive, and a fast sports car at that
👏
Your a fn legend. Just watched your vlog and have to say your A110 looks the biz. Would love to know where you got the side skirts & front splitter. I've been salivating at the lifeA110 parts & only wished we could get the same tune in Oz. I bought an Australian premier edition sight unseen & absolutely love the car. Hats off to you
Great guy, great car!
Always wondered how hand controls work! Do you still use the paddles or is that an input too many?
For these hand controls it’s one input too many. However, there’s a different style with what’s called a ring accelerator, and that allows you to have two hands on the wheel and use the paddles. It’s what a lot of disabled racing drivers use. I’ve been thinking about switching, but it would be expensive and pretty much learning to drive all over again!
i love a110
Cool car, cool bloke.
That looks lovely! You moved on from Lotus? Any reasons why? You must miss the noise!
There were loads of reasons for it, but it came down to the fact that in my eyes, the Evora wasn't a 'special' car, and this is. It did make a fantastic noise that's true, but it was heavy (1,400kg), the gearbox wasn't amazing, the seating position wasn't great and it needed at least 100bhp more. I drove it 32,000 miles in two years and haven't missed it at all since I sold it. these are also all the same reasons I'm not going to bother to get an Emira, although that will undoubtedly be a good car.
Cars are cool and all but I’d rather ride Alex 🥵
It's my impeccable passionate french love
That number plate is incredible. What a guy!
Unless his hearing was also affected by that very unfortunate accident, it’s not possible to enjoy the noise this car makes.
im sorry you have too have been forced into joining the challenging world of being an amputee by an impaired individual driving a 2000 lb weapon .....
sir your attitude and personality is more inspirational,endearing and impressive than any machine even this gorgeous machine you share with us here .....
i was blessed and only lost part of one leg so my experience hasnt been half as bad as yours 😂😂😂😂 sorry sir it was jus too easy.... yall haters can jus quit it cuz guess what? i still win i dont hafta match socks anymore bahahahaa takes me twice as long to wear out a pack of walmart socks roflol
sir thank you for your inspirational attitude and outlook on life and thank you for sharing have a great day from Arkansas...