You're 44 years too late.

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You really should have come earlier. The Renault is scrapped a long time ago. What, do you want to know about the car on the right? Oh that is the wing of an ordinary Traction Avant. Ah..! its only the one in the middle you are interested in. Rick Ford came accross this dust collecting Aston something like 44 years back during one of the tours offered him by renowned French car publicist Francis Mortarini (Vintagepbks.com). The Aston is LM 18, the ex Earl Howe (click for action at Brooklandstrack.co.uk). Still you had more than 10 years left to collect the car, but you didn't!!! Leading Aston Martin specialist Andy Bell (visit Ecurie Bertelli) remembers the car was found at the same location ".....in the early seventies by Derrick Edwards. Nick Mason bought it in 1977 looking just like it is in the photos. I remember it arriving in London painted in French blue, but with the little section around the Aston Martin script still in the original works red! The photo is taken in Paris in the garage of a man called Martin whose father owned and raced it...it won the 1939 Bol d'Or." (click for a second view by Rick Ford)

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