Restoration of One the Rarest Cars in the World Gets Underway
UNITED KINGDOM / AGILITYPR.NEWS / April 29, 2020 / In February, before the current shut down due to the global pandemic, Classic Motor Cars (CMC) based in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, started work on restoring one of the world’s rarest cars, the Aston Martin Bulldog.
The car, a British icon, was designed by Aston Martin in the late 1970’s to show off the capabilities of its new engineering facility. Its current owner has sent it to CMC for a full nut and bolt restoration, after which the plan is to run the car at over 200 mph and then take it on a World tour.
Nigel Woodward, Managing Director at CMC said: “Being given the opportunity to restore this car is a real accolade. On February 27th just two days after we had unveiled the car to the press, we set about stripping it down.”
He added: “There has been huge interest from around the world and we thought that we would be able to get on with the eighteen-month restoration and regularly share the progress with the media. However, that was not to be and we had to stop work a few weeks later.”
Nigel added “However, we wanted to show what progress we had made and how far we had got prior to the lockdown, so we are releasing a series of pictures over the next couple of months to bring people up to speed.
He added: “In the meantime the break in restoration has allowed us to do even more research on the car. The initial publicity received from when we announced the restoration has resulted in people sending us a number of historical pictures we had not seen before. These will help us when we get the restoration underway again.
The Aston Martin Bulldog, styled by William Towns, is a one-off concept car that Aston Martin created to prove that it was not only a small company of renowned motoring artisans but that it’s engineering prowess was also world class.
Aston Martin believed that the car was capable of well in excess of 200 miles per hour. However due to budgetary constraints the testing runs were only able to prove 192 mph. this however was in enough to confirm its position as the fastest road car of all time for over six years.
However, testing and development were curtailed with the car tantalisingly close to its design performance having achieved 192 miles per hour in testing at Millbrook when Victor Gauntlet became chairman of AML in 1981.
Contacts
Nigel Woodward
Managing Director CMC
Nigel.Woodward@classic-motor-cars.co.ukPhone: +44(0)7788 716682