James Mills

The whistle began 50 years ago, a high pitch emanating from the engine bay as the crank spun past 2500 rpm. It filtered through the cabin, growing louder, more frantic beyond 3000 rpm, and by then the sound was accompanied by a potency never before found in a 2.0-liter, four-cylinder motor. From 4000 rpm, the rush toward the horizon was, frankly, shocking. The BMW turbocharger had arrived, and with it came a whole new suite of driving sensations.

The door shuts, the key turns, and there’s a whirring of the fuel pump before the starter motor cranks away and the engine catches. There’s an explosion as fuel is compressed and ignited, and the 5.75-liter V-8 settles to a chugga-chug-chug, fumes filling the air and hydrocarbon flecks spitting from the exhausts. It is everything and more you’d hope from a 1970 Ford Mustang Mach 1 —theatrical, attention-seeking, and a hint of the anti-establishment, ready to melt rubber into the road and race for pink slips.

Aston Martin was an inefficient mess by the time Ford took over. Walter Hayes turned things around promptly in overseeing the DB7's birth.

An ex-Schumacher Benetton sold at auction for more than €800,000 in 2018. Ignition/LAT Photographic

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Dimitri Labis is a man of apparent contradictions. He’s Belgian but has made a living out of distributing artisan Italian foodstuffs rather than his nation’s beer or moules-frites and waffles. And when it comes to cars, his head isn’t turned by marques from neighboring France—Alpine, Bugatti, Peugeot, or Citroën—but, with one or two exceptions, by British brands, and one model in particular: the Aston Martin Lagonda.

Forty years ago, at the Geneva motor show, a vision in Rosso Corsa paint shone like a beacon in the sea, drawing crowds to the stands of the Ferrari importer and Pininfarina.

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