perksy
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| posted on 1/2/17 at 09:26 PM |
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Aston Martin Factory Tour
Tour of the Aston Martin factory at Gaydon is on mine and Mrs P's bucket list
She has a big thing about Aston's and always wants me to dress up as James Bond  
Research show's you need to get an invite through a dealer of perhaps get a place through the owners club
I saw that an auction for a group of 6 for a tour went for 2 grand
I've found a couple of internal email contacts, but sadly they seem to refer back to dealer
Has anybody managed to wangle a place on a tour of the factory ?
I know it's a long shot, but does anybody know somebody who might be able to help ?
Thanks
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slingshot2000
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| posted on 1/2/17 at 11:19 PM |
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A visit to their traditional home at in Newport Pagnell would be much more interesting; all traditional builds, rebuilds and restorations. All you
will see at Gaydon is a modern car factory; except it will be building Astons.
A student member of a local IMECHE group should be able to organise a group visit to Gaydon, but I doubt they will want everyone to dress in black tie
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mark chandler
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| posted on 1/2/17 at 11:25 PM |
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£40 to you sir
https://www.amoc.org/events/factory-tour--48
I,m in the owners club so if yiu have a problem let me know and I can ask someone 
Regards Mark
[Edited on 1/2/17 by mark chandler]
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Toys2
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| posted on 2/2/17 at 12:35 AM |
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Sorry, I can't help, but I can make you jealous!
I have a couple of friends who used to be designers there. I was working nearby so phoned them asking if they wanted to meet up for lunch
They couldn't get out, but signed me in as a supplier, I had lunch with them in their canteen and then one of them gave me a personal tour
around the DB9 line, lets just say that it was a long lunch break for me!
I've since moved out of the area, I'll always remember them popping around now and again with a car that they'd borrowed for
evaluation. I had a ride in a 9 before it was released. I live up in Cumbria now, one of them nipped up in a prototype DBS, it sat on my drive for 3
days doing nothing while we were out walking
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perksy
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| posted on 2/2/17 at 08:07 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by mark chandler
£40 to you sir
https://www.amoc.org/events/factory-tour--48
I,m in the owners club so if yiu have a problem let me know and I can ask someone
Regards Mark
[Edited on 1/2/17 by mark chandler]
Thank you for that, I've bookmarked it
Shame neither of us can get that bloody day off, bugger  
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coozer
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| posted on 3/2/17 at 12:17 PM |
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Ive been in there a lot of times as I was an oem supplier engineer
On arrival the front is very nice like a posh 5 star hotel.. The heritage show is hit and miss depending what they have in at teh time but the
highlight for me was the RnD tent out the back.. Went there to check a steering column on a jig and there was a V8 racer in getting some work done...
They fired it up and boy was I blown away from the noise of headers without an exhaust attached!
The assembly hall is canny, all the sowing machinists on the left as you walk in and the slow assembly process to the right.
However ive been to many car plants and some of the others are better.. The mercedes plant in Stuttgart is AWESOME.. Just the pure scale of it..
1972 V8 Jago
1980 Z750
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