Hiring a V8 for the day?

joyfull

My BF's 50th b'day is a few weeks away. He loves everthing about V8s (the boomy chuggy type sound they make actually) & dreams of driving one around the lanes near where we live.

Apart from hiring one for the day at wedding/special occasion type prices (£500 etc), does anyone have any ideas as to how I can obtain one for a day (at budget price) to let him live his dream for a while. (nothing illegal please!) We live separately in Kent.

Thank you.

Gordon_Hose

Dunno, but a quick Google throws this up: http://www.sportscarshire.co.uk/

Rolandtheroadie

£500 to hire? Put £150 to it and it would have bought both my v8's. Both long MOT's, 1 with tax.

forgotmyname

V8 what? Offroad / green lane day or a racing day / track day advertised everywhere, think argos etc also do them?

sassy_one

Could/can be done/arranged.

However, it will be a specially offered thing with only a limited number of firms offering such.

Ringing round a few hire firms from the local Yellow Pages or Google might bring up some ideals and they may be able to recommend someone for you to contact.

sassy_one

http://www.churchillsupercars.com/cars/astonmartin-v8-vantage.htm

10JH

Be careful with the insurance details though.

Some of them have a huge excess, such as, pay the first £50,000 of any damage!

missile

My SiL hired an Austin Healy for her hubby and they went for a great day out.

PS: I do know that a healy is not a V8

aqueoushumour01

you may have to put down quite a sizeable deposit

catflea

missile wrote: »

My SiL hired an Austin Healy for her hubby and they went for a great day out.

PS: I do know that a healy is not a V8

Depends which healy we are referring to, but either an inline 4 (A series) or a straight 6 (droooooool)

daveyjp

Call a Jaguar dealer and see if they will hire you an XK8, XKR or XFR for the day. Lay on the special birthday treat aspect - you never know.