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i reckon the G35 pictured....should have the bumper with a slightly higher angle so it mates better with the bonnet line...

from the side it looks as if there is a dip where they meet.. i can also see there is like a mini vent/grill/hole there for getting to the bonnet latch.. that should have been shaped to meet the bonnet better..

thats all...

not like i could do it

but every time u look at that car in the driveway/garage u would be thinking its not quite an Aston and not quite a skyline ;-)

Why would anybody bother???

There is only one Aston Martin worth owning in my books and that's a 1969/72 DBSV8.

Anything that can go from 0 to 100mph and back to 0 in about the same time as we can walk across the road will do me (13.8 secs)

A good one can be bought today for under $50,000.00 so compared to anything Nissan it represents good value.

Anyway, it is one of the last true Aston Martins, as Ford bought a controlling interest in about 1975. Just look at the current series, all are 5.0L not the 5.3L Quad Cam of these classics.

Cheers, D

Why would anybody bother???

There is only one Aston Martin worth owning in my books and that's a 1969/72 DBSV8.

Anything that can go from 0 to 100mph and back to 0 in about the same time as we can walk across the road will do me (13.8 secs)

A good one can be bought today for under $50,000.00 so compared to anything Nissan it represents good value.

Anyway, it is one of the last true Aston Martins, as Ford bought a controlling interest in about 1975. Just look at the current series, all are 5.0L not the 5.3L Quad Cam of these classics.

Cheers, D

Nice car, but there are other nice Aston's... V8 Vantage Le Mans? 600hp from twin supercharged V8, and it looks pretty mean...

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And what about the DB5? Who wouldn't want to drive the difinitive Bond-mobile?

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Edited by Big Rizza

Almost as bad as when people use to put mercedes front grills on geminis.

Or the whole evoIII body kit phase of the late 90s. No your excel is not an EVO!

The only decent one of these kits ive ever seen that makes a car something its not is an mx5 converted to hardtop and made to look like the very first rotor - 110s cosmo (had a big 10A in it).

original looked like this:

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