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Nope - £20,750 in the end.

Yeah, really was expecting I'd have to resort to an auction site or whatnot (losing quite a bit of money in fees), but guess I got lucky to have a couple of interested parties at the right time.

Car sold today. Sad to see it go, but time for something new!

Quick update - car still for sale, asking for £22k....

Let me know if you want any more info. The difference between mine and an eBay special is that it's just been inspected by a highly respected specialist (who've known the car for 5 years) and any imperfections are completely transparent. And it's a known car: it's had just 2 fastidious owners...

I've regretted selling quite a few cars over the years (Corrado VR6, E46 M3, Lotus Exige all stand out - and all of which are worth more now than when I sold them!). I'm sure it'll be the same this time, but ultimately until I win the lottery and build an underground 10-car garage and retire, I...

Thanks so much for the comments all. Seems like £20-23k is probably what the market thinks is about right - plenty on sale for more but I suspect they've been on sale for a while. Surprised they've gone that low - surely there can't be much more depreciating to do! Same could be said for...

Maserati Granturismo Sport 4.7 MC 2009 58,500 miles Grigio Alfieri with Nero leather/Alcantara and grey stitching (I have the full list of fitted options available if requested) MOT’d Aug 23 (no advisories) Serviced Aug 23 at Emblem Sportscars, including 2 new rear tyres (Pirelli P Zero)...

On the diagram at the link here, it seems the QP has a different arrangement and the tabs all around the front edge are what seem to secure it. It looks to me that you should be able to lever the air dam lower lip up and over the protrusions of the front bumper piece, then wiggle it out?

I can't comment on a QP, but on my GT there were a few obvious bolts to remove and then the thing just yanked out...

If you don't have the room to have floorstanding shelves (like me), and you have solid walls to mount to (e.g. breeze block), I've used the metal 'twin slot' style bracket shelving system from B&Q for over a decade now. You could sit on the shelves, they're that solid. Just use decent rawl...

Sadly that looks comparable to every set of brakes I've taken apart on something 10+ years old. On the plus side, they are all thick chunks of steel and the fact that the surfaces look like they've been sat on the seabed with the Titanic will have little impact, provided the caliper seals and...

I understand they're all like that - mine certainly are. I also read somewhere that you shouldn't attempt to adjust them to lower the car or anything, because the world will explode or something.

As everyone says, it's all in the prep. That and very light coats!

Haha, I saw some evidence of a previous glue repair! I'd highly recommend that JB weld stuff, should you ever need to glue the Aston back together!

I painted the metal mesh, but the plastic surround part is that quite malleable, rubbery plastic that felt like it would be better to 'back to black' rather than paint. Plus it was so pockmarked with stone chips that to prep it properly for a decent paint job would have resulted in more filler...

Took a bit of time, granted, but when I looked at new grills they seemed to be about £800! And any second hand ones i saw didn't look any better nick than mine.

I then hit it with numerous fine coats of basic Halfords satin black: The sun was pretty bright and the camera struggles to pick out the finish, but it looks beautifully inky black and smooth: Chrome trim reattached and slapped back onto the car, and I must say it's a huge improvement...

Now I'm no expert at this sort of thing, which is exactly why I'm posting this - on the off chance this motivates someone else to have a go. I removed my grill to gain access to change my front emblem, and in doing so noticed how tired it was looking, with faded plastic, red stripes turned...

Yes, that makes up part of the 200 or so total. Fair point, though I bet you could say that about every industry in the USSR. Major nuclear incidents are hard to cover up though - the fallout is a bit of a tell-tale (Swedish health physicists alerted the world to the full extent of the...