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Track Tech Inspection – Preparation Special Offer 2013

Going to a track day this year?...FCA, PCA, BMW, SCDA, ANY track event? 

We are offering a Track event pre-track tech inspection and preparation special for the complete 2013 season for ANY track event!…ANY make/model!

·         Pre-Track tech inspection per the specific event tech form: $49.95

·         Brake fluid flush: $165.00… FREE tech inspection!

·         Discounted pricing on any performance/suspension upgrade, brake pads, tires, safety gear, track alignment, etc. 

Please contact me with any questions and to setup your appointment.

Best,

Aston Martins aren’t all we do… We offer restoration, preservation, maintenance and sales of Aston Martin, Lotus, Ferrari, Maserati, Porsche and other fine European Marques. 

Performance & Styling Enhancements We’ve partnered with well-known manufactures to offer the best products & services. These products can be installed in our workshop or supplied as parts only. 

We are Authorized Dealers for the following products:

·         Quicksilver Exhaust: www.quicksilverexhausts.com

·         Capristo Exhaust: www.capristo-usa.com

·         Taurino Racing - Products for Ferrari Street & Challenge Race Cars

·         Tubi Style Exhaust: www.tubistylena.com

·         Sector 111: www.sector111.com

·         Formula Dynamics: www.formuladynamics.com 

Services offered Any Make/Model

·         Maintenance - Scheduled Services, Repairs, and Restoration*Specializing in AM/Lotus/Ferrari/Maserati/Porsche

·         Chrome Plating, Nickel/Cad/Anodized Plating, & Powder Coating services

·         Upholstery/Leather/Conv Top Restoration or Repair

·         Instrument Restoration/Repair

·         Suspension Geometry Alignments and Performance/Track suspension setup

·         Tires at competitive pricing, in-house Mounting and Road-force Balancing

·         Wheel Refinishing and Straightening

·         3M Paint Protection Film Installation

·         Window Tinting

·         In-house Detailing, Paint correction/wet-sanding Services

·         Preparing Award winning cars...Pebble Beach, Amelia Island, Cavallino Classic, FCA National Concours winners

·         Escort/Passport Radar systems-supplied and installations available

·         Sport/Performance Upgrades and Exhaust Systems…See product list. 

 Aston Martin

·         Factory Performance and Styling Accessories: www.astonmartin.com/en/cars/aston-martin-accessories

·         Aston Martin Heritage Specialist-1st appointed in USA, a distinction that recognizes our expertise in locating, servicing and restoring vintage Aston Martins.

·         Rare and obsolete parts sourcing

·         Factory Extended Service Contracts…Coverage available for cars up to 10 years old 

Lotus

·         Factory Performance and Styling Accessories

·         Lotus Sport Exhaust

·         Lotus Supercharger Upgrade

·         Lotus Brake & Suspension Upgrades

·         Sector 111 Dealer… www.sector111.com  

Ferrari/Maserati

·         Sales, acquisition and brokering of significant Ferrari motorcars

·         Factory trained technical staff with over 20yrs of Ferrari/Maserati experience

·         Leonardo™ Ferrari / Maserati Diagnostic System

·         OEM Parts at a very competitive price

·         Maserati MC Sportline Upgrades

·         Ricambi & Hill Engineering Parts

·         Sport/Performance Upgrades and Exhaust Systems…See product list. 

Porsche

·         Acquisition and Restoration services specializing in 356 models

·         Maintenance of all Porsches from 356 to late model Porsches

·         Stoddard & Factory Porsche parts

·         Sport/Performance Upgrades and Exhaust Systems…See product list. 

Keep up to date with our latest projects, special offers and events by following us on Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/pages/Aston-Martin-of-New-EnglandLotus-Motorsports-Inc/139952508436

Ebay Store: http://stores.ebay.com/Aston-Martin-NE-Lotus-Motorsports Aston Martin of New

Contact Steve Oldford in Service to inquire about your specific needs

This week Aston Martin will be sharing its first public viewing of the New Vanquish durring the Pebble Beach festivities. By all accounts this car is amazing and has taken the design of Aston Martin to a new level. Please contact us to find out more about how to be the first one in the neighborhood to get one.

Best,

Matt

We offer maintenance and restoration services for all European or American Classic and Sports Cars including Ferrari, Maserati, Porsche, Mercedes Benz, BMW, Jaguar, Bentley, Corvette, AC Cobra, Etc. We also offer on premise year-round storage...inquire. 781-547-5959 ext226

Our service director, Steve Oldford, worked for Ferrari for 11 years and Brian Walsh, our Ferrari/Maserati certified technician with over 10 years of factory training will take great care of you! We have just added a full Ferrari / Maserati diagnostic tool for early Ferraris up to the latest F/M cars.

We are New England's premier sports car dealership, offering the finest new cars, as well as some of the world's most significant vintage vehicles. AMNE is Aston Martin's original Heritage dealer for North America, a distinction that recognizes our expertise in locati...ng, preparing, and servicing vintage Aston Martins. We bring this knowledge to bear by offering examples of other fine European marques as well.

·       Join us this Sunday 10/16 at the Larz Anderson Auto Musuem in Brookline, MA to celebrate everything Italian.
As many of you already know we're not only a dealership for British car enthusiasts but we sell & service many European marques such as Ferrari, Maserati, Porsche, BMW. Please stop by our display at Tutto Italiano.

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Like our Facebook page and stay up to date with what's happening in the world of Aston Martin and Lotus. You'll get news about new cars as they arrive before they hit the streets, the latest collector cars for sale...new and old, and cool pics of projects that are in our workshop.

 http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Aston-Martin-of-New-EnglandLotus-Motorsports-Inc/139952508436

Aston Martin will be sending their new Virage, and Vantage S models to our dealership in Waltham.  We will proudly have the latest from Aston Martin here at our showroom, May 26, and 27th.

Please call Matt Nolan for more details.  781-547-5959 ex 231

Cheers!

Feel the city shake May 19th when Grand-Am racecars hit the streets of Boston to raise money for children’s charities prior to next week's GRAND-Am series race at Lime Rock Park. The parade starts at 3PM. Race cars will be touring the streets of Boston ending at Anthony’s Pier 4 restaurant who will host the cocktail party and exotic car corral from 4:30-7pm. Check out this link for more info and please donate from the heart :)

http://www.guardianangelmotorsports.com/blog/2011/05/03/feel-city-shake-event-details

Join AMNE to support Guardian Angel Motorsports and help a great cause!

See you there!

Steve

Thank you to everyone who came out to our Open House/Cars and Coffee event on Saturday.  Great weather, great cars, great people.  Looking forward to our next event!  Stay tuned.

See pictures at our Facebook page.  http://www.facebook.com/pages/Aston-Martin-of-New-EnglandLotus-Motorsports-Inc/139952508436

Cheers!

As some of you already know, we have a new member of our team Stephen Oldford.  While we are very excited to bring Mr. Oldford aboard, most of you guys and gals, probably already know Steve well.

We here at Aston Martin of New England, have known and worked with Steve for a very long time and we feel fortunate that he is now a part of our team.

Steve brings with him15 years of experience in the automotive industry, with a strong focus on high end luxury, and exotic sports cars.  Steve has been the Service Manager over at Ferrari, and Maserati of New England, and will be helping Kirk McNeil and our service team.

If you’re in the area, please feel free to stop by and say hello.

           Will this snow ever stop!?  Actually I hope not.  Sorry if you are one of those who hates the stuff but still lives here, no sympathy from me here.  Snowboarding, sledding, I love it all.  Here at Aston Martin of New England and Lotus Motorsports Inc. we are still humming away on our winter projects and regular services too.  The two major projects are a complete engine rebuild on a 1963 DB4 convertible and a frame up restoration of a 1953 DB2, the DB2 is more of an all season restoration.  Big or small we will tackle any project you want to throw at us. 

            Also our third floor is packed full of hibernating Astons, Lotus, Ferraris, Bristols, and even a late 60’s T-Bird.  Just this past Tuesday I pulled an 88,000 mile Lotus Elise into the shop for service.  Yea, it actually made it through the snow, it had a good set of Bridgestone Blizzacks and it just moved right along.   I have the same snow tires on my car and they have never let me down.  Believe it or not, Astons also move in snow with snow tires; we have sold plenty of winter wheel and tire packages so if you are like me and love to play in the white stuff we can make your motorcar love the white stuff too.

            One inch of snow or one foot of snow, we are here ready to work for you.

Drive safe and spirited -  

Tom

               I know this is late but I just wanted to wish all our great customers and friends a great holiday season.  Our 3rd floor is just about full for storage so if you are thinking of it now is the time to get your prized motorcar in here for a safe and comfortable winter nap.  Or, hit us up for some snow tires to enjoy the upcoming snow in style. 

            We do have some new ideas and services coming from Aston Martin of New England for 2011 and beyond so please keep checking back.  We are looking to improve our website and its services as well.  If you haven’t already check out our Facebook page we post most of our cool photos of what goes on inside the shop there for now; 

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Aston-Martin-of-New-EnglandLotus-Motorsports-Inc/139952508436 

Thanks for a great year and hope to see you all soon.  Stay tuned for details on our annual spring clinic; hopefully those warm thoughts will get you through this crazy bitter cold.

Drive safe and spirited -  

Tom

Getting more power out of a motorcar these days is rather easy with all the technology and software available.  I have just recently installed my first Power Upgrade to a ’07 4.3 liter V8 Vantage and I must say it was just what the car needed.  The kit comes with about a half dozen parts to upgrade and of course some engine computer software but on this particular car I also installed an Aston Martin Sport Exhaust, which to me completed the upgrade kit.  The kit bumps up horsepower to 400 and brings down the peak torque to a more usable level so the fun and smiles just get bigger and better.  The exhaust note is so crisp and menacing that it has you searching the area for tunnels and bridge underpasses.

            First the exhaust; it comes with smoked chrome tips that are a subtle but very attractive statement to the rear bumper that say this car has a little something extra.  Once you hear that exhaust note for the first time, all you want to do is get those revs up and let it sing.  Believe it or not there is a software upgrade just for this exhaust to allow the baffles to operate in a tighter range of rpms.  This means that in the city at low rpms and low speed you won’t deafen your neighbors but with a slight elevation in rpms on the highway the exhaust just growls its way to red line; what this means performance wise is less exhaust restriction. 

            The real power and torque of the kit comes from new air boxes, intake plenum and of course some engine management software.  The air boxes have an extra intake hole that when rpms reach 3500 the extra intake opens for better overall breathing.  To better aid the breathing the intake plenum is renewed along with a new black paint job to show everyone this is no ordinary 4.3 liter.  With those bits installed along with a new fuse box and some wiring to the ECU, I downloaded the new engine management software.  The entire install is straight forward so all that was left was the roadtest.

            I drove about 6 miles in town before I was greeted by the highway on ramp to feel for the low end power increase; subtle but there.  I feel the car urging me to hurry and get to the highway so it could be fully exercised.  Through the town the exhaust note got me a lot of looks along with the great color, Merlot red with anthracite wheels and tinted glass, this car looked down right mean and now with an exhaust growl to match; I loved it.   Once on the highway you could really feel the up in upgrade.  The torque pulled harder and earlier and the horsepower, well, you just reach the triple digits quicker than you can say, is that a speed trap?  I for one love keeping cars original but if a manufacturer offer upgrades I know I can trust them and have faith in installing them.  This upgrade kit has been tested and designed specifically for this car and makes quite a difference.

              Happy motoring indeed.

Tom

Great Clinics Everyone! I just want to thank everyone that made it out to the Service Clinic this past Saturday.  I think we all had a great informative time.  It was great to converse with fellow enthusiasts on a more relaxed level, off the clock and not in uniform.  A special thanks to Ilya Kagan for being an intricate part of the days events.

            For those of you who couldn’t make it you were missed.  I hope your motorcar is still giving you miles of smiles.  Please do not hesitate to give us a call for any reason, service, parts, sales, or any type of general information; we would be more than happy to answer all your questions.

            Please keep checking our blog for upcoming events, the next one is the Boston Auto show in early December, rumor has it there will be a V12 Vantage there.  Stay tuned for updates and have a great holiday season.

Thanks and Drive safe and spirited -  

Tom

Great Clinic Everyone! I just want to thank everyone that made it out to the Service Clinic this past Saturday.  I think we all had a great informative time.  It was great to converse with fellow enthusiasts on a more relaxed level, off the clock and not in uniform.  A special thanks to Lotus Cars FSE Mike Fisher for coming all the way from Virginia to give our devoted Lotus customers some inside information and support.

            If some of you want to come back this coming Saturday November 13^th that’s fine too, although this clinic will be more focused on Aston Martin.  For those of you with Aston’s our Field Service Engineer Ilya Kagan will be here from 10am to 3pm along with our expert paint-less dent removal technician Chuck Baker.

            So bring your Aston or Lotus or whatever motorcar you love to apex through the corners and come down to get much needed storage, service, accessory, information.

Drive safe and spirited -  

Tom

Just a quick reminder that our first of 2 clinics is this Saturday November 6^th 2010 from 10am to 3pm and that Mike Fisher from Lotus Cars NA will be on hand to give a short presentation of the future vehicles Lotus might have to offer.

            Don’t have a Lotus, so what, come by anyway and talk some shop and hang with some fellow sports car enthusiasts.  It should be a casual, fun, and informative day.

Drive safe and spirited -  

Tom

Its official, our Field Service Engineers from both brands, Aston Martin and Lotus Cars will be here for the clinics.  Mike Fisher from Lotus Cars North America will be here Saturday November 6^th, 2010 only!  Ilya Kagan from Aston Martin the Americas will be here Saturday November 13^th, 2010 only!  Each Saturday will be geared toward a particular brand but please don’t let that discourage you from coming by just to see what we are up to and talk a little car talk.  You are more than welcome to come by both Saturdays if you want. 

            Mike Fisher will be giving a short presentation of what is to come from Lotus in the not too distant future.  Until then, check out their new website at www.lotuscars.com it has some pretty awesome videos, photos, and information of some seriously cool cars to come. 

            They will be on hand to answer any questions you might have about your vehicle.  Also as we will not be servicing cars these 2 Saturdays but we will be happy to visually inspect your car and talk about any issues or concerns you might have. 

Drive safe and spirited -  

Tom