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HIS WORD IS HIS BOND IN TALE OF ASTON MARTIN

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ASTON MARTIN: MADE IN BRITAIN RRP £20

By the normal standards of the reviews that grace these pages, this one’s a touch personal.

This James Bond-loving Autosport writer spent the early part of the first national lockdown distracted by the build of a gadget-laden LEGO Aston Martin DB5, complete with ejector seat and wing-mounted machine guns. A beer-inspired late-night eBay purchase then meant disassembling many of the 1295 bricks to retrofit an

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