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Re:DB7/F type

To: british-cars@autox.team.net
Subject: Re:DB7/F type
From: wzehring@cmb.biosci.wayne.edu (Will Zehring)
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 16:43:37 +0500
ABB and fellow fiends:


>Droopy front?  Beauty, eyes of the beholder, etc.  The integration of
>the classic Aston shark mouth into the DB7 front end is IMO one of its
>finest qualities.  Balloons and blunderbusses at dawn, good sir....
>
>                       A. B. Bonds     agent 042
>
Don't fire!  Granted, I used the word "droopy" but it was all I could think 
of at that hour of the morning.  I didn't mean to imply that I thougt the 
Aston front end treatment is not handsome.  Quite the contrary.  I much 
admire the preservation of that basic grille shape dating back at least to 
the DB2.  I think the DB7 is a stunningly handsome car.  I was trying to 
contrast the oval shape of the 'classical' E-type front end with the larger 
grilled Aston front treatment, that has the two slopes by the headlamps.  
The pix I'd seen of the putative F-type did look a lot like the current DB7, 
with the dramatic difference in the front end treatment.   A poor choice of 
words, yes, but...

...what were we going to do with the balloons?

Will Zehring



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