Hey, you! Stateside moneybags enamored of Speed Speedback’s baadasssss song! British boutique concern David Brown Automotive informs us that you’re finally in luck! Their Astonoid Speedback GT is coming to the United States and will make its American debut at The Quail during Monterey’s August cavalcade of high-dollar automotive things, stuff, ’n’ spendy whatnot.
-Priced at $795,000, the Speedback isn’t exactly what we’d call cheap. Built on the bones of the Jaguar XKR, one might think of it as a future-past version of the DB7, a 1990s car that traced its lineage back to the Jaguar XJS of the 1970s. It’s bizarro-continuum stuff, for sure. Still, that 503-horse blown AJ V-8 is a damn peach of a mill.
-It’s a much, much more inspiring engine than say, the smog-choked Ford Windsor used in Zimmer’s Golden Spirits of the 1980s. Golden Spirit, however Floridian gilded-trash that name might be, at least does not sound like a cetacean entertainer’s nom de nude. “Guys, let’s give it up for our feature dancer Sonia Speedback! She’ll only be here at the Spearmint Narwhal three more nights!”
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But, if retro-modern is your thing, the Speedback’s an option. So, too, is wedging Ford’s new Voodoo flat-plane V-8 into a Golden Spirit. Golden Speedball? Yes, we’ll have that. Horatio, would you be ever so kind and fetch our pimp cane? Yes, of course the one topped with the Hurst shift knob. Thank you, Horatio. That will be all.
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