Stacked Aston Martins: Stolen or Salvaged?

"alexotics" (alexotics) 05/08/2014 at 13:52 • Filed to: None

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Yesterday I noticed a tweet by AutoGespot that linked a picture of three Aston Martins crammed into a transport truck not suited for car transportation. In fact, one of the Aston Martins was literally stacked right on top of the other two. Sacrilidge! But what's really going on here?

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The original picture had as caption: "Destination: Poland."

I wanted a better explanation so I tweeted it back into the universe asking "What's going on here?" and mentioning GTSpirit, Jalopnik, and Autogespot in the tweet to try and attract some attention from people who may be in the know.

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I got tons of retweets and reactions, but no one knew what was going on until the Dutch folks at Autogespot tweeted me back this morning saying they were flooded and therefore worthless. Autogespot knew this because they were given this information directly from the transport company.

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While I have a trusting relationship with the guys at Autogespot, I can't help but wonder if something else is going on. No transport company in their right mind would shuttle three Aston Martins this way, salvaged or not. Secondly, I would be less surprised if this was a poor attempt at trying to smuggle some Astons out of the EU.

I may be reading in to it too much, but that picture sure is strange. OPPO, any ideas?

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > alexotics 05/08/2014 at 13:54

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If they were flooded they still have body work that's very valuable, would be strange to just purposely destroy them.

macanamera > alexotics 05/08/2014 at 13:58

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I was wondering where my Astons went...

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 05/08/2014 at 13:59

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possible the insurance company "totalled" them and the rich guy who owns 3 astons said fuck it take em then, i'll buy new ones with my insurance money!!

alexotics > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 05/08/2014 at 14:00

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Exactly. It just doesn't make sense. It's an unsafe, unprofitable, illogical way to transport Aston Martins. Surely there's something going on here.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner 05/08/2014 at 14:01

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That would make more sense.

CAcoalminer > alexotics 05/08/2014 at 14:01

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NO! Not a DBS!

offroadkarter > alexotics 05/08/2014 at 14:02

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Flood cars are often crushed because its a liability to take parts off of them.

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > alexotics 05/08/2014 at 14:08

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Scania truck, so it's definitely Europe.

William Byrd > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 05/08/2014 at 14:08

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Yeah, that's what I was going to post. There is a lot of cash in parts there.

Driver_41 > alexotics 05/08/2014 at 15:14

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Stacked dead Astons? Stacked to the rafters! Line up the bastards, all I want is the truth.

/foofightered

RallyWrench > alexotics 05/08/2014 at 15:21

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I wonder if they're ex-development or Bond movie shells with no or invalid VINs, so they've got to be crushed.

Driver_41 > alexotics 05/08/2014 at 15:24

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/kinja