Silver Aston Martin

[mboxmike]

I took a chance on this one today. Looks silver but it does look like it has silver trim to the front? You can see where there was once red trim on the right rear tail light. What do you think?

[Idris]

These are often extremely difficult to call.

It does look silver but, in the final photograph, the inside of the roof appears to have a very faint, pale green hue.

[GHOSTHUNTER]

I am with "Idris" on this one, but what caught my Eye are the wheels. What are they...faded Grey or faded Silver-Grey plastic or are they the metal type causing the colour tint I am seeing.

If we are are looking at a model with severe Sun Fade properties, I can imagine plastic wheels suffering as a result, causing a much lighter shade of whatever colour they were to start with.

Can "mboxmike" clarify what the wheels are made of, metal or plastic and what colour he would say they are, thank's.

GHOSTHUNTER.

[mboxmike]

The wheels are metal with 53 on the sides. I'll try to get a better picture of the inside roof but the color is consistent under it.

[mboxmike]

these are probably the best pics I can get with my camera

[GHOSTHUNTER]

OK Mike, thanks for the clarification on the wheels. We just need to decide if the main body is Sun Faded and normally the inside of the model would clearly show signs of the original colour shade, but yours is proving to be not so easy as it does look like a very light shade of the outside and you would expect it to be much darker inside. I have just been told the Jury is still out on this one...

Ghosty.

[brainstrust]

The silver colour is just too consistent to be faded unless it's been deliberately rotated in the sun. Not sure how long that would take!
I would go silver but then there is the silver looking grill so I'm definitely saying...... I don't know

[Idris]

The silver colour is just too consistent to be faded unless it's been deliberately rotated in the sun.

Common sense dictates that to be the way it would have to work. However, I have seen plenty of sun-faded models which have a completely uniform colour. Admittedly they are a small minority compared to those which are obvious sun-fades, but it does happen. Sun-fade is a strange phenomenon, seemingly without any rhyme or reason to it.

Could we please see a photograph of this model next to a known silver model, such as a 74a?

[tractorboy]

I remember a silver Aston coming up on TradeMe (about 6 months ago??).

Perhaps one of NZ members remembers it or won it.

[mboxmike]

Once again, I believe I can see very, very faint vestigial green on the inside of the sills and the underside of the bonnet. This, coupled with the presence of grille trim makes me think this may well be an extreme sunfade.