June 17th, a nice Vanquish, my first one on the road
 

Strange the world isn't it? :D while Ferraris are pretty common around here, Astons are a rare sight, and I mean RARE! Even the DB7 is hard to spot. The only Vanquish I saw so far beside car shows was the one at the Supercar rally 2003 in Geneva!

Since I started taking my pics last year, I got only two DB7:

My 567th picture...
http://www.jabbasworld.net/photopost...nmartindb7.jpg

And the 584th one, the day after...
http://www.jabbasworld.net/photopost...nmartindb7.jpg

So I was quite amazed when today, while I was parked after I picked up my girlfriend, this car passed by in the opposite direction_

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/6186/vanq1.jpg

And shit, as you can see, in that place you can't really make an U-Turn (check the middle white line)... but well.. a Vanquish is a Vanquish, so I simply jumped on it! And who cares ;) anyway traffic was light and I managed to be behing him in 10 seconds, thanks to two consecutive green lights!

This one was worth also an high-res of course :D
http://www.jabbasworld.net/photopost...3vanq2-med.jpg

And going uphill after the next red light he pushed a bit on the throttle, filling Lausanne with one of the best sounding engine ever built! Sublime!

After a while I preffered giving up since it was pointless to keep following him taking pics :D just the last goodbye :D sadly not worth a big version because of the reflections on the windshield of my car.
http://www.jabbasworld.net/photopost...onvanquish.jpg

Extremely lucky man :D and it looks stunning in black too, too bad you couldn´t get a picture from the front.

I just imagine the sound of that V12, similar to the DB9 i suppose.

Well yes, it's similar to the DB7 of course, but.. well.. deeper and louder :D

Yeah, they have a really nice burble to them!

I woulder if the driver spotted you pulling all sorts of antics to catch him lol I he/she was famous, I bet they thought you were press! haha

Well, my U-turn could have catch his attention, but in the meantime the light was turning green, so maybe he wasn't focused on his rearview mirrors ;), but the big picture was taken at a red light, and although I was quite fast (as always), in hiding the camera, he could have spotted me... :D

anyway right before third picture I saw him and dont' think he was a VIP :D and who cares about him :D I loved the car :P

I once saw one in the street and it sounded like nothing else! :o

nice 8) and yeah... who cares about the guy.. :lol: what a nice thing to see hu.. :D

kewl pix TT ....... how do ya manage too do all the things like taking pics just abt everyday .... being here 23.59 hours a day ... and painting dolls .... :wink:

8) 8) 8)

The only Astons I've seen is on exhibition, and in a garage.. Would like to have it like in switzerland... Ferraris all day long

I've heard the DB7, DB9 and Vanquish at various points in time and I'd have to say that between the DB7 and Vanquish, the Vanquish has a much more full basso than the DB7, but it also has the ability to sing a better contralto as the revs jump...I don't think it is as nice as the sound the DB9 makes though believe it or not. I followed a prototype DB9 around Royal Oak, Michigan a few weeks ago and I could hear it from three blocks away...made my knees weak. The Vanquish, however sweet, sounds more like a racecar than the DB9. It depends on what you're looking for in a car. I'd take any of them hehe.

Astons sound just orgasmic. They just do. :twisted:

Astons sound more than that

I saw one awhile back and was in aw or the beast all my mate just look at it saying: 'its no ferrari" :x (I need to get smarter friends. Hell what do they know one drives a Starlet and the other has a TOYOTA CORONA

Well, a few months ago only the 1000th Vanquish was shipped to Japan as far as I remember, which makes this a rare car. I've only seen it once, hiding in a small parking in Italy. And back in England I saw a V8 Vantage. 2 Astons, 17 years of life.

You're one lucky guy TT! I have yet to see an Aston in Vancouver... Jag XK's are much more common but they're usually only XK8's not XKRs :(