Someone made the comment that the Aston didn’t appear until Goldfinger. They are absolutely right, my mistake. That’s what happens when you just wing it and your old a feeble. Thanks for the catch. I am right about the DB 4 being made over because a finished 5 wasn’t ready. I had a coach builder work for me who had apprenticed at Aston and remembered it all well. Something I should have mentioned was that I had the great pleasure of doing a complete restoration on Lady Brown’s personal DB 5. It was deep purple with a red interior, Lady Brown’s colours and it was stunning when we got it finished.
Something I've learned over the years, is that dealership mechanics ONLY know the current models. Most often, they only stay a few years, and some of them start their own independent shop later. Saying Aston Martin couldn't fix your car is inaccurate, it's that the local mechanics didn't know what to do with it, and didn't want to do late night conference calls with the UK. The gearbox is Tremec to begin with, so it should be somewhat reliable mechanically. Aston Martin Works in the UK charges something like 40,000GBP for the conversion to full manual, and I believe there's a shop in the US that can do the same for you (for more $$). Another great source is Bamford Rose in the UK. I seem to remember they have an upgrade kit to use the "stuff" from the Vanquish S as a bolt-on fix for the non-S Vanquish, essentially removing most of the known issues of the 1st generation gearbox gizmos. Please don't cut up the car to put a Viper engine in it.
Chris from Australia. Finally the next stage of the A.M. clean slate approachand i can a lot of ideas absoultely bursting out trying to get on paper! Many points you made are valid. It seems you're heading down the path of a Cabrio 2+2 configuration. The rear parcel tray area - what a waste. The lowered roof line (chopped) good. In the ealry 70's designed by Italians , where the vehicle had the option of either hard top / soft top with a "T" roof bar / roll cage . This offered both open car feel with added propection with extra body stiffening features. The vehicle, I hate to say it was the Jaguar Cabrio and the Triumph Stag. Some of the side roof metal would be reshapped retained with windows, but the centre section would be the vinyl roof top , electrically operated gluiding inside tracks. Good luck 🤞
Sorry about your Vanquish. My 2009 DB9 Volante has not had any major problems. The engine and transmission work great and we have driven it to Lime Rock from Houston and around the mountains of Colorado. If you asked in the AMOC forum I know you could get a referral to get your transmission fixed but that would not make as interesting of a series. Good Luck
David - loved your earlier shows, glad to see you back on YT. However whatever the "effect" is your team is editing into the videos with the seeming effort to make it look like vintage/old film reels is just awful. In this video it was random, on some of the others it looks like they are trying to add that on the loopback/history pieces of film. The transition in and out, and the use of it in so much of the videos, makes them virtually unwatchable. Your content is great and stands on its own without any goofy effect that distract from the film, current and vintage. Just reign in your overly-artsy team and you will be good to go!
Thanks for watching, we're glad you enjoyed the episode! No decisions have been made yet in the way of colour, but we are open to hearing your suggestions!
@@guildsgarage David has peculiar and often unusual choices in fashion, so I expect to be surprised with his color choice. I'm thinking a silvery green.
I have watched your show and everything you have put to social. I have even driven by slowly and stared creepily , lol, and I live in Brockville. Just subscribed today. ...also I think you are onto a profitable side gig. I would buy that coffee table for $1999.99, taxes in and strapped to a skid ready for pic up only. Oh and with the glass etched in the center with the guild logo. Thank you Sir for your life long commitment to controlled insanity
Dave, I'm thinking there are a couple of Stateside outfits that will have an LS 12 figured out before the end of this year. What ever you put in it will be running pretty much a stand alone for the engine/transmission, so what you want is easily doable, even with electronic FI, distributor and VVT included. Now I understand what an old friend of mine meant after divorcing the same woman twice- he said the "buying that car twice was the most expensive mistake of his life". The message got a little lost not to long later when he divorced his second, second wife, though. The build sounds like fun; save me a seat, I'll bring my own pop corn!
You had the same problems trying to swap the third gen hemi's when they first came out with all the interdependent systems plugged into the same computer. The engine wouldn't start if it couldn't see the power windows or the HVAC system. It made it easier for the engineers to piggyback everything but it made it almost impossible for everyone else. At least until companies like Holly came out with stand alone engine controllers for them.
I'm thinking that DG could become an influential person in the history of AM. Although embarrassing for AM, DG is putting them in the spotlight and will be building a wild almost fantasy show car. If AM could get past the initial optics, they would be wise to join with the Guild and somehow get involved with this project and at least be part of putting the finished project on tour. It would have more people talking about AM. Maybe they could even have DG involved in some new product.
7:23 Oh no dont tell me, the Selespeed transmission, the F1 pumps gone out, Aston in all its wisdom shared this transmission with both Alfa, and ferrari and they were notorious for pump failure, its why there's actually a program to send it back to aston to get it switched to a manual six speed archyluxury, this watch addicted snob actually covered it on his alfa 124, he said they had three other Alfa's in on that same day with pump failure and they had it on the early 355's and the 360, also if its anything like the ferrari, dont jump it if the battery's gone, it might kill the computer, and given its a rare exotic, guess what most likely went and guess what they did also go own one, HAHAHAHAHA there was one local to me for 45 grand, I was actually tempted but the spark plugs from ford are drying up and I knew of the transmission issue plus what the hell am I gonna do with a vanquish, also the vipers reliable outside of the early headgasket and thermostat problems, because its actually a 360 V8 bumped up to 10 it was a prototype truck engine, despite what the engineer who is on here and has been in the muscle car mags says that was ment for a truck, but they didnt put it into production, and then when they were looking to make a sports car on the cheap using dodge durango running gear, which is why its rims and tires work for it as an impromptu set of snow tires of all things and they took it out and sent it to lamborghini for casting given its what they do, and do well also I half wonder if that head gasket issue was a result of that, as they use aluminum and steel in the heads and you really have to let them warm up as they expand and contract at different temperatures as the heads aluminum, but the cam on the lambos sits in steel, granted the camshafts in the block, not the head on those but try that stupid FRIGGING PUMP first before ripping it apart, also its got a code reader under the dash, the OB1 reader or something like that plug that in and see what it says, its modern enough to have the very first of those also if your gonna modernize it and go crazy, try the one 77 grill treatment, like have the grill divided into three sections and maybe have it slant inwards with the outer two, and look for some pressure releasers in the fenders, like they have on the AMG's maybe give it abit of DBS, the replacement for the vanquish S with the vents, which honestly kinda seems like the zenith of modern aston also funny little thing about it in the bond film, they tore out the engine on that to fit it with 4 wheel drive from a ford explorer, so engine swaps can and have been done before, even in the films but regardless of what you do, good luck with it, and have fun, heck maybe even give it abit of Z8 in some ways which honestly if they werent so frigging expensive would be my choice of dream bond car, mind you with the dash completely covered in leather so it doesnt reflect like crazy as in colors other than silver, it just doesnt look good, and with the leather, you could try a cheap trick, which I think someone did, maybe aston back in the day, make the top half vinyl, the bit that's exposed to the sun or something that's rated for a 135 degree's plus, which is what the heat is like when it hits it, Leno Mentioned it on his firebird WS6 video of just how hot it gets in the sun, like it may seem like its 80 degree's, but for the leather on a car interior, it gets that frigging hot and shrinks like maybe find out what porsche uses for their race cars so it holds together, hell maybe that's why they started using alcantera for everything also aston back in the day would have the car be two tone in the pre ford martin era as I call it, so you could try that, like the bond aston martin was black and blue grey the original DB5, as the original wasnt silver, which might have been a rolls royce silver, it was red so they made this rather attractive color combo to match also the gauges are where the interior just doesnt look right, if anything I would look at fitting some modern aston martin ones in, modern as in 2006 mind you, maybe with a white backdrop as the gauges in this, are from the XJS, Well XK8, and the Db7 Ian Calliums OTHER car who has made his own super duper fancy version of it that looks like ass, for 330 thousand dollars mind you this is the same guy who took a jaguar mark II, deleted all the chrome off of it, and put an awful momoalita steering wheel on it and then painted it the same red and grey as the rolls royce they put in the pool on top gear so top class marks there lol
Not the same Vanquish. The car we bought at auction was actually a great car but we sold it a few years ago. This one came in to us on consignment and was in superb and well cared for condition, so we bought it. Should have kept the other one.
Get it drivable and drive it for a year before you change the body. You know if you start doing the whole job at once, you may get tired of it before you finish.
The Aston Martin was not in Dr. No (which was the first of the franchise). It didn't show up until the third film, 1964's Goldfinger. I'm no expert, but, here's my advice. Do whatever has to be done to make it run reliably and well. If that means Viper driveline? So be it. Don't mess with the body etc. When done, give me a call. I'll hop a plane out east, take it off your hands and drive it back to my house in BC. Problem solved.
Someone made the comment that the Aston didn’t appear until Goldfinger. They are absolutely right, my mistake. That’s what happens when you just wing it and your old a feeble. Thanks for the catch. I am right about the DB 4 being made over because a finished 5 wasn’t ready.
I had a coach builder work for me who had apprenticed at Aston and remembered it all well.
Something I should have mentioned was that I had the great pleasure of doing a complete restoration on Lady Brown’s personal DB 5.
It was deep purple with a red interior, Lady Brown’s colours and it was stunning when we got it finished.
Something I've learned over the years, is that dealership mechanics ONLY know the current models. Most often, they only stay a few years, and some of them start their own independent shop later. Saying Aston Martin couldn't fix your car is inaccurate, it's that the local mechanics didn't know what to do with it, and didn't want to do late night conference calls with the UK. The gearbox is Tremec to begin with, so it should be somewhat reliable mechanically. Aston Martin Works in the UK charges something like 40,000GBP for the conversion to full manual, and I believe there's a shop in the US that can do the same for you (for more $$). Another great source is Bamford Rose in the UK. I seem to remember they have an upgrade kit to use the "stuff" from the Vanquish S as a bolt-on fix for the non-S Vanquish, essentially removing most of the known issues of the 1st generation gearbox gizmos. Please don't cut up the car to put a Viper engine in it.
I really enjoy your video guys, the history of car, mechanic, Thanks Mr.Grainger! Salut from Quebec;)
Thanks for the A.M. history lesson. I say go for it. You have the ways and the means so why not. Cant wait for the results. Cheers
Our thoughts exactly. Thanks for watching! Stay tuned for the next episode.
I like your ideas, I can Invision the end result. I say go for it.
Would love to see your vision of a Viper V10 engined, Vanquish Speedster!
Wouldn't it be cool?!
Your vision is down right amazing. The knowledge you have is very impressive. It's easy to see how passionate you are with the subject 👍🇨🇦🔧
Thanks for watching, we appreciate the comment! David truly is an expert of this automotive world.
@@guildsgarage exactly. It would be an honor to be able to meet and shake his hand 👍🇨🇦🔧
Great video
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Great video today, look forward to the journey.
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Cut the top definitely 👍
Viper is a good idea
Silver with bright red ♥️ interior 🤔...
Fantastic Idea 😉 👏👏👏
Can't wait to see it 😳✌️
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Dave will never sugar coat anything. He's a straight shooter. Speaks the truth take it or leave.
You've got that right. Straight to the point!
Chris from Australia. Finally the next stage of the A.M. clean slate approachand i can a lot of ideas absoultely bursting out trying to get on paper! Many points you made are valid. It seems you're heading down the path of a Cabrio 2+2 configuration. The rear parcel tray area - what a waste. The lowered roof line (chopped) good. In the ealry 70's designed by Italians , where the vehicle had the option of either hard top / soft top with a "T" roof bar / roll cage . This offered both open car feel with added propection with extra body stiffening features. The vehicle, I hate to say it was the Jaguar Cabrio and the Triumph Stag. Some of the side roof metal would be reshapped retained with windows, but the centre section would be the vinyl roof top , electrically operated gluiding inside tracks. Good luck 🤞
The fake film jitter filter is annoying
Sorry about your Vanquish. My 2009 DB9 Volante has not had any major problems. The engine and transmission work great and we have driven it to Lime Rock from Houston and around the mountains of Colorado. If you asked in the AMOC forum I know you could get a referral to get your transmission fixed but that would not make as interesting of a series. Good Luck
David - loved your earlier shows, glad to see you back on YT.
However whatever the "effect" is your team is editing into the videos with the seeming effort to make it look like vintage/old film reels is just awful. In this video it was random, on some of the others it looks like they are trying to add that on the loopback/history pieces of film. The transition in and out, and the use of it in so much of the videos, makes them virtually unwatchable.
Your content is great and stands on its own without any goofy effect that distract from the film, current and vintage. Just reign in your overly-artsy team and you will be good to go!
I came here to say exactly this. Great info and vision, the effect over the top is awful.
As a docent level enthusiast I really enjoyed your AM history - love the Zagato! What color shall your twin pod special become?
Thanks for watching, we're glad you enjoyed the episode! No decisions have been made yet in the way of colour, but we are open to hearing your suggestions!
@@guildsgarage David has peculiar and often unusual choices in fashion, so I expect to be surprised with his color choice. I'm thinking a silvery green.
Cool project
You have some GREAT IDEAS!!!!!!!
That would work 👍👍🇨🇦
how about a manual conversion like Aston Work does but done even better
A very real possibility... how does everyone like this option?
I can tell you really like that AM junk ! Good for you to transform it into a winner.
l like it!
Thanks for watching!
I have watched your show and everything you have put to social. I have even driven by slowly and stared creepily , lol, and I live in Brockville. Just subscribed today. ...also I think you are onto a profitable side gig. I would buy that coffee table for $1999.99, taxes in and strapped to a skid ready for pic up only. Oh and with the glass etched in the center with the guild logo. Thank you Sir for your life long commitment to controlled insanity
It's going to be fantastic !
We think so too.
Dave, I'm thinking there are a couple of Stateside outfits that will have an LS 12 figured out before the end of this year. What ever you put in it will be running pretty much a stand alone for the engine/transmission, so what you want is easily doable, even with electronic FI, distributor and VVT included. Now I understand what an old friend of mine meant after divorcing the same woman twice- he said the "buying that car twice was the most expensive mistake of his life". The message got a little lost not to long later when he divorced his second, second wife, though.
The build sounds like fun; save me a seat, I'll bring my own pop corn!
Will you be following up this build with videos?
Get a roadster shop chassis with a set up for a mid engine LS hp to your liking
10 pm. I would try and keep the engine and put a good transmission in it.
I really like what your saying , don't worry about what anyone thinks . Be creative and go for it .
lol David great ideas hope it works out
Cheers! be sure to follow along for updates.
You had the same problems trying to swap the third gen hemi's when they first came out with all the interdependent systems plugged into the same computer. The engine wouldn't start if it couldn't see the power windows or the HVAC system. It made it easier for the engineers to piggyback everything but it made it almost impossible for everyone else. At least until companies like Holly came out with stand alone engine controllers for them.
I'm thinking that DG could become an influential person in the history of AM. Although embarrassing for AM, DG is putting them in the spotlight and will be building a wild almost fantasy show car. If AM could get past the initial optics, they would be wise to join with the Guild and somehow get involved with this project and at least be part of putting the finished project on tour. It would have more people talking about AM. Maybe they could even have DG involved in some new product.
I would worry about reliability issues if you turned the engine block into a coffee table
But don't you think it would be more successful at holding a coffee than it would be shifting into first gear?
7:23 Oh no dont tell me, the Selespeed transmission, the F1 pumps gone out, Aston in all its wisdom shared this transmission with both Alfa, and ferrari and they were notorious for pump failure, its why there's actually a program to send it back to aston to get it switched to a manual six speed
archyluxury, this watch addicted snob actually covered it on his alfa 124, he said they had three other Alfa's in on that same day with pump failure
and they had it on the early 355's and the 360, also if its anything like the ferrari, dont jump it if the battery's gone, it might kill the computer,
and given its a rare exotic, guess what most likely went and guess what they did
also go own one, HAHAHAHAHA there was one local to me for 45 grand, I was actually tempted but the spark plugs from ford are drying up and I knew of the transmission issue
plus what the hell am I gonna do with a vanquish,
also the vipers reliable outside of the early headgasket and thermostat problems, because its actually a 360 V8 bumped up to 10
it was a prototype truck engine, despite what the engineer who is on here and has been in the muscle car mags says
that was ment for a truck, but they didnt put it into production, and then when they were looking to make a sports car on the cheap using dodge durango running gear, which is why its rims and tires work for it as an impromptu set of snow tires of all things
and they took it out and sent it to lamborghini for casting given its what they do, and do well
also I half wonder if that head gasket issue was a result of that, as they use aluminum and steel in the heads and you really have to let them warm up as they expand and contract at different temperatures
as the heads aluminum, but the cam on the lambos sits in steel, granted the camshafts in the block, not the head on those
but try that stupid FRIGGING PUMP first before ripping it apart, also its got a code reader under the dash, the OB1 reader or something like that
plug that in and see what it says, its modern enough to have the very first of those
also if your gonna modernize it and go crazy, try the one 77 grill treatment, like have the grill divided into three sections and maybe have it slant inwards with the outer two, and look for some pressure releasers in the fenders, like they have on the AMG's
maybe give it abit of DBS, the replacement for the vanquish S with the vents, which honestly kinda seems like the zenith of modern aston
also funny little thing about it in the bond film, they tore out the engine on that to fit it with 4 wheel drive from a ford explorer, so engine swaps can and have been done before, even in the films
but regardless of what you do, good luck with it, and have fun, heck maybe even give it abit of Z8 in some ways
which honestly if they werent so frigging expensive would be my choice of dream bond car, mind you with the dash completely covered in leather so it doesnt reflect like crazy
as in colors other than silver, it just doesnt look good,
and with the leather, you could try a cheap trick, which I think someone did, maybe aston back in the day, make the top half vinyl, the bit that's exposed to the sun or something that's rated for a 135 degree's plus, which is what the heat is like when it hits it, Leno Mentioned it on his firebird WS6 video of just how hot it gets in the sun, like it may seem like its 80 degree's, but for the leather on a car interior, it gets that frigging hot and shrinks
like maybe find out what porsche uses for their race cars so it holds together, hell maybe that's why they started using alcantera for everything
also aston back in the day would have the car be two tone in the pre ford martin era as I call it, so you could try that, like the bond aston martin was black and blue grey
the original DB5, as the original wasnt silver, which might have been a rolls royce silver, it was red
so they made this rather attractive color combo to match
also the gauges are where the interior just doesnt look right, if anything I would look at fitting some modern aston martin ones in, modern as in 2006 mind you, maybe with a white backdrop
as the gauges in this, are from the XJS, Well XK8, and the Db7
Ian Calliums OTHER car
who has made his own super duper fancy version of it
that looks like ass, for 330 thousand dollars
mind you this is the same guy who took a jaguar mark II, deleted all the chrome off of it, and put an awful momoalita steering wheel on it
and then painted it the same red and grey as the rolls royce they put in the pool on top gear
so top class marks there lol
What about that 250 GT California Spyder reproduction you started to built???
Almost done.
Will you post some new videos about it? Thank's.
Updates on the 250 will be coming next month or earlier
I can see it now The new Aston m ,DG1, includes complimentary coffee table with every order
I like your concept. I have a similary designed Jaguar.
Let me know if you need a hand
We would be interested to see what yours looks like! send us a photo to [ theguildsgarage@gmail.com ]
Not the same Vanquish. The car we bought at auction was actually a great car but we sold it a few years ago. This one came in to us on consignment and was in superb and well cared for condition, so we bought it. Should have kept the other one.
David, I would get a good quality AMG engine and gearbox.
Hmmm, we haven't explored this option yet, might be worth looking into?
Get it drivable and drive it for a year before you change the body. You know if you start doing the whole job at once, you may get tired of it before you finish.
That's a good point! But it wouldn't make for a very interesting episode now, would it?
Yep go for it,you’re a creator.
Cheers!
Well thank God I didn't trade my 1976 Aston Martin V8 Vantage for a 2005 Vanquish or a 2014 DBS when I had the chance to??
The Aston Martin was not in Dr. No (which was the first of the franchise). It didn't show up until the third film, 1964's Goldfinger.
I'm no expert, but, here's my advice. Do whatever has to be done to make it run reliably and well. If that means Viper driveline? So be it. Don't mess with the body etc. When done, give me a call. I'll hop a plane out east, take it off your hands and drive it back to my house in BC. Problem solved.
Yes. James drove a Sunbeam Tiger in Dr No. thank goodness the Db5 came along to replace it.
@@gpTeacher And a Bentley in From Russia with Love.
David, you have an Aston- Martin.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
8.1L LS swap it!!!!!!! Tr6060 rear end
How does everyone feel about this option?
man keep the v12 but geta lambo unit.
Where’s poopoo pants? She still a lush ? Tell her I miss her.
Sell the car and go on with a “happy” life 👍🏼