We've been doing

aerodynamics for a long time.

I mean, you know, certainly, well, do you know what? Let's be really bold.

The first example, and you won't believe how far back this goes, Razorblade.

course yes a razor blade was was made in 1923 yeah the body was made by de Havilland the aeroplane company so it's actually more like an aeroplane fuser very very thin that's why it's called razor blade but believe it or not if you look at the back of razor blade where the towel comes to a really sharp point there's a vent now this is what they cottoned on to and You're driving along, you've got an open cockpit, the air's going through the body, so it's going around the driver and his seat, and it goes through that big long towel.

And it gets trapped.

Yeah, it gets trapped, so it's got to go somewhere.

And the launch spec, like you said earlier, was…

So

we're just above the £100,000 barrier for the first time with a DB because the DB7s were, as a coupe, were in the sort of... early 90s I think when it first came out and probably towards the end of production we're into the hundreds of thousands with a few bits and pieces or certainly Volante and the GT yeah but also the DB you have to also remember as well leading up to the launch of DB9 the activity that had been going on to keep us going to get to DB9 because everybody was talking about it and And we had to smoke screen the end of DB7 production.

So we had to kind of keep DB9 off of people's minds.

So actually we, I bet, you know, you've got to go back in time to think about this one.

We actually showed the Vantage concept before we even announced DB9.

So we had the concept car Vantage was shown, I think in 2002.

And everybody was chattering about it and wanted to order it.

Yeah,

Can you just explain how Bamford and Martin, that name fits in?

Yeah, yeah.

So our two founders, Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford, they first met each other through cycle racing, probably around about 1912.

And they came up with the idea of forming a company to service and to sell motor cars.

Both of them had had a little bit of experience with cars before, Robert was actually working for a company in London called Hess & Savory.

They were actually steamboat manufacturers.

They used to make steamboats for riverboats.

What's the known history of this car?