Aston Martin one day, Track day the next

The past week has been pretty awesome in my world with a couple of very big highlights.

The first highlight was probably biggest of the nine months I have worked in the motoring world, going on a photoshoot with the editor in an Aston Martin Vanquish.
It's been a couple of days since the shoot as I write this but I am still fizzing over the all too short time I spent in the company of such an amazing car. The speed, the sound, the overall craftsmanship is just something I have never experience before all wrapped in the same package. Sadly having such a beautifully built machine in my own possession is probably destined to remain a dream with the Vanquish's price tag a staggering $420,000 (ish).

The second was spending a few hours at Hampton Downs in the Waikato helping with some marshaling and practicing taking a few snaps with my 1100D.

Apart from just having the pleasure of being at an in use track, there was also a few very expensive track cars testing during the track day. Among the elite were Toyota NZ's TR86 track car, at Hampton Downs for some tyre testing, a pair of R35 Nissan GTR's and a very interesting turbocharged Toyota MR-S racecar.

Back to Aston Martin. Turns out they are 100years old this year and celebrated by building the below CC100 concept car.

All the car porn this week has left me thinking one thing...

...I need a project car

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