Why The Last Truly British Aston Was Terrible AND Brilliant! Aston Martin DBS V8 

Completely agree, too much importance was put on Lazenby's nationality and acting ability and not enough on the plot, character development and the importance of Theresa in Bonds life.

Telly Savalas was the best villain for sure.

@@V8_screw_electric_cars now i`m gonna watch it lol

Not to mention Diana Rigg as Theresa.

@@michaeltb1358 and her Mercury Couagar.

You rich folk

@@zairomolino4074 Not necessarily rich, but also enthusiasts who appreciate fine things and made sacrifices to enjoy them.

@@2Truth2you well said.

@@zairomolino4074 so let it be. It’s not a crime wath is a crime is that 99% of the people envey the wealthy and lose time instead of pursuing ideas, chasing challenges to overcome no matter wath to fulfill their dreams. Now that is a crime that poor people do blame or envey losing time with tik tok, Netflix or drinking with friends on saturdays night.

​@2Truth2you I'm not rich.I used my late wife's life insurance to buy my dream car.She told me to do it.😊

Yeah, that is the series where I fell in love with this car. Roger Moore in the Aston and Tony Curtis in a lovely Ferrari Dino 246 GT. Two of the best looking cars of the time.

​​​@@Goc67It was the Bahamas Yellow paintwork I liked on the DBS it really suited the car.

As a 5yo I agree.

Yes... But. It is such an easy place to mount them. Easy to route the wires.... Easy to drill the holes. Everything is easy. And the sound quality is OK. It's not as if it's a new car. So it won't deny the value.... Cars this old are done depreciating and from now on it's just a matter of keeping it running until it finally conks out on the A3 on a wet Tuesday.

@@BanjoLuke1 point taken, I didn’t mean to be offensive. It’s a lovely car.

@@BanjoLuke1Meh rubbish. It ruins the look even if is is easy to do for botch-job wannabe mechanics. These cars are appreciating in value and have been since the financial crisis of 2008. Speakers on the parcel shelf are poor taste and cowboyish.

@@davidmacdonald1695 so if the owner were a cowboy, would it make it acceptable?

Why drive Aston V8 to listen to 8 track??? Big fan of Karen Carpenter, Bread & Carole King?

Too Funny...

Wow! What a coincidence. I parked my much loved DBS Near a scrapyard in 75 or so and came back not an hour later, to find it on bricks with the wheels missing. Needless to say I went to the scrapyard and was lucky to buy 3 matching wheels which they guaranteed me were genuine. They were kind enough to help me fit it. Saved the day.

Well i was lucky to find the wheel that was in D Brown flat when he passes away .it must have been a prototype.

Quite possibly!

@@paultucker4923 I think they raided the BMC parts bin.

Last David Bond Aston & last true Aston, face lift looked like it hit a wall.

The Living Daylights 100% 👍🇦🇺

you would prefer this to a DB5 nonsense and a huge sum of money difference in the millions

Heavens no! American design from that era (and any other post war era) was a sinonim of flashy and flamboyant taste. Sorry.

It's the poshest muscle car ever made.

It certainly seems to have the handling of one. Looks very European though. Mix of Ghibli and Jenson Interceptor. Perhaps a bit Iso Griffo mixed in.

@@heiner71 It is not a surprise that the Iso, the Maserati and the Jenson have affinity of design. Each being from the Italian design tradition. The Aston Martin however, was thoroughly English from the tyres up. I have to say that every car that I have owned, apart from one, was either Italian or styled by an Italian.

@@milosbrajkovic9855 ok, so we have different opinions on that. To my eyes, the exterior has the feel of cars like the original Mustang Mach 1.

It's an old Aston - they all drop oil slicks ;-)

That was actually a 6 cylinder car dressed as a V8.

It’s not a v8 but a dressed up 6

Yep…they wanted a V8 but as the V8 was delayed they used a 6 cylinder Vantage and dressed it as a V8

And orange!

That’s very kind thank you!! Can you send me an email with your details?

there's definitely a cult fandom for The Living Daylights. I was a little too young to see either Dalton Bond movies, and grew up with Brosnan as Bond. I discovered The Living Daylights just a few years ago and loved it.

100%

Interesting argument about 1/2 vs 4/5! Personally I disagree :) I'd say 1/2 shifts are more common, and it is more likely you are in a hurry compared to 4/5 shifts. I could buy the argument that 2/3 is more important though, but I'm not 100% convinced - especially on the road and not a track.

@@rogerwennstrom6677 The dog leg 1st was not widely adopted. As 5 speed boxes became more common, the industry standard was to have 5th adjacent to 3rd. Most people find the dog leg 1st clumsy.

@@ralphmillais5237 I'm aware :) It is Innes Irelands argument here for the dogleg configuration that baffles me.

@@rogerwennstrom6677 Sadly he is no longer here to ask.

😂 “minutes” I had a 1979 Jeep Honcho (a full-size, short bed pickup with a frontend that looks similar to the classic Grand Cherokees and Wagoneers), it was one of just ~1200 manufactured between ‘74-‘83. It handled like a shopping trolley being pushed backwards from its nose: squirrelly, with only the mildest whiff of suggestions arriving from the the steering wheel, which could easily travel ~15deg either side of center without any discernible response. It was the worst handling vehicle I’ve ever driven, including farm tractors, modded mini bikes, golf carts, and fishing boats. My high-school jalopy was a ‘87 Olds Cutlass Supreme that was purchased from an insurance auction for $200 in 1998, its engine seized appr. six months later. Driving that Cutlass evoked the sensations of engaging a precision machined bolt action rifle when compared to the Honcho’s flaccid drivechain. Hitting the brakes felt like trying to stop a freight train by throwing tapioca pudding on the rails. Its enormous engine was underpowered, inside they used a cheap sprung bench seat, it rattled like a soup can full of BBs, and just generally inspired its occupants to consider whether they might be more comfortable if they were riding outside of the cabin. In my experience, most classic cars from that era are a pleasure to look at and work on, but a nightmare to drive and use. Still, I wouldn’t change anything. It was special to my father, who relished In the process of restoring and detailing every inch of it. Jeeps have become such a cliched fashion accessory around the Southeast US, I think it was largely the simple pride of owning one of the only “rare” Jeeps around, and as long as it was running off-road it was actually a ton of fun to run around a trail with. Maybe it’s just me, but I think people who purchase and own classic cars are maybe just a little bit _off in the head_ as if we derive some kind of satisfaction from extremely high effort/low reward activities. That’s why the only rich people with car collections are Jay Leno or rappers. Anyone with enough shrewdness to achieve real wealth knows that all cars-but especially vintage ones-are all highly efficient cash incinerators. Their most redeeming quality is that your wife won’t take it in the divorce…and also when your time finally comes to shuffle off this mortal coil, you can pass away feeling happy in the knowledge that sorting out what to do with the damn thing will be a profoundly annoying exercise to leave your kid(s) with.

@@silverXnoise Oh so true. Of course, in my case time is relative. As Einstein once said, 'Having a beautiful woman sitting in your lap for thirty minutes seems like thirty seconds, whilst sitting on a hot stove for thirty seconds seems like thirty minutes'.

The nicest Bond Aston, yes!

certainly didn't look good.

A lot of cars had that all black plastic/vinyl/leather interior in the sixties and seventies. There was a conservative rebound in the eighties because all people wanted wood and leather in their English cars, so Jaguar and Aston Martin and Rover and whatnot obliged. But for the time this interior is perfectly time correct.

@@ingvarhallstrom2306 Yes, I never realised those early cars had such naff switch gear! The later V8 models certainly upped the game a bit 😂👍

No, that's how they made them! Depending on the year the switchgear is a bizarre mix of Lucas (Jaguar), Hifi knobs and other odds and ends. - The fan speed control is from a Peterbilt truck! (the air con is US-made Coolaire so I suppose it makes sense?) Horrible parcel shelf speakers though...

It's a typical late 60s car interior - trim and dashboard wise.

Agreed on the no-wood fascia. I'd be tempted to have a few panels made up by a local craftsman.

Even in the late nineteenties i could buy one (or two) for even less money… the GBP had “crashed” and the taxes were exceptionally raised for big engines…. In fact, i wanted one . I had some savings for a shed(garage) to put it in… that garage was allready plannend for double the costs of a DBS V8, so i could have bought 2 DBS’es but no garage to put it in and storing one on the driveway permanently is a bad idea.. so i Build the garage…. 1 year later i found out that the prices of a DBS V8 had doubled again…. I should have bought a pair and sell one later on to build the garage to put it in…. 😂. Indeed.. a crystal ball would have been nice

I've always wondered why they never had a wooden facia. Seems I am in good company. Seems a perfect car to fit a modern engine management system to.

Thank you Gregor!!

It’s an improvement on a very low starting base!!

Aston owner: "hold my G&T"...

I don't look at it as to a muscle car. Its more of a sports car, like Lamborghini Muira. If I compare it to a muscle car, for example, 1970 Chevelle it has so much better muscle car lines, can't beat that.

Silver with Red interior?

@@tinnarsmoat Rusty silver yes. Don't remember the interior. Salisbury Road School. Plymouth

Female school teachers driving classic DB Astons... can you think of anything more appealing?

Souped up mustang lol , 😆 mustang can only dream of being anything close to the Aston v8 vantage .

The springs and dampers are shot on that car! Trouble is that these U Tubers don't know how these cars should drive so do not know when they get a good one or a bad one.

It's hard to say from just looking at the footage and the car looks well cared-for but I'm sure mine doesn't wallow like that. Konis on the rear are a good upgrade.

@@ralphmillais5237 I think that's true for a lot of people. They think, "Old car; so it must be slow, wallowy and under-braked," and not every owner is necessarily aware of how good their car could be.

Probably not the association Aston was desiring

I recongnise that. But it is the Jaguar XJ series III for me.

Peter, I also have a '76. Great car, amazing engine! The upgrades that are available for these cars make a huge difference to their performance, reliability and pleasure-to-drive factor. I've owned it for 20 years, sunk a ton of money into it without regret... and have no plans to sell! :)

There is a horn selector switch on the dash: "Town" is standard electric hooter. "Country" is the full air horn ensemble. :-)

Considering this car is essentially the same, I believe suspension upgrades can and have been done to these. Mind you, that will never be a problem for me :(

thank you

Big wave to Quebec et merci beaucoup for watching!

@@Number27 My pleasure "Vous parler Français?" You speak french? can't wait for another video.

Thank you Stephen, glad you enjoyed it