Once the project was mothballed, the Bulldog was eventually sold to a buyer in the Middle East for around $150,000 USD where it would be outfitted alongside mirrors in addition to cameras to live road legal. It would eventually be sold to an American collector, just the motorcar would live seldom seen until its appearance at the Goodwood Festival of Speed inwards 2009, it would once more reemerge at Aston Martin's 100th-anniversary celebration 2013 before vanishing once more. It would encounter the lite of 24-hour interval once more later on it was purchased by American entrepreneur Phillip Sarofim 2 years agone, amongst a goal of restoring the auto back to its sometime glory.
The automobile was eventually sent to Classic Motor Cars to undergo a full restoration dorsum to its master specifications, alongside a few small fry adjustments. Unlike nigh classic ane-of-a-form cars, possessor Phillip Sarofim wasn't request for it to be restored then it could sit down inwards a museum, it was existence restored to try that the motorcar was capable of going over 200 mph. Despite this fact, the motorcar nonetheless won the Royal Automobile Club restoration of the yr award, in addition to Classic Motor Cars won specialist of the year at the Octane Historic Moring Awards for their go on the Bulldog, merely well-nigh importantly, on Sabbatum, November 27 the machine hitting 162 miles an hour on its get-go milkshake-down session. The start time the auto has been driven at speed inwards over forty years.
Seeing the motorcar go similar this for the showtime fourth dimension in twoscore years is a dream come up truthful. I grew upwardly with the motorcar, I had a poster of it on my sleeping room wall. I cannot thank the team at CMC enough for the hard run that they take put into this Project. The machine volition live tested over again either this yr or at the beginning of side by side at the Royal Naval Air Station before nosotros get for the 200-mph record that it never did in 1980. The location of that endeavour is notwithstanding being discussed.
Richard Gauntlett, representing the owner of the machine Phillip Sarofim
Victor Gauntlett, Richard’s male parent, was Chairman at Aston Martin when the supercar was planned to be the beginning product auto to go past 200 mph. The machine was privately tested at the Royal Naval Air Station at Yeovilton inward Somerset. This was office of a serial of Royal Naval activities which has seen the machine unveiled at the Hampton Court Concours past 2 Royal Naval apprentices from the Royal Naval Air Station. The car was showcased on board HMS Prince of Wales, UK’sec latest Aircraft carrier, together with the adjacent testing taking place dorsum at RNAS Yeovilton once analysis of Sabbatum'second testing takes home as well as the conditions are right.
The automobile will undergo more testing earlier eventually making its 200mph attempt.
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