It’s hard to believe that Brooke has been part of my life for almost three years. He was Martins dream car. I’m glad I persuaded Martin to buy the Aston and he enjoyed driving the car immensely in the short time that he had left. I’ve also enjoyed two years of driving this beautiful car, shared in the last 16 months with Chris, who drove him properly – unlike me who was overtaken on numerous occasions.
Brookes journey began with Martin & I on 1/5/2013. When we arrived home, Phil, our neighbour christened him Brooke as in ‘Brooke Bond’ and this name is what we’ve all become familiar with. He was even serviced at Brook Park at Handforth Dean.
We took him to the Donnington race track in June 2013 where he did a lap of honour round the circuit to commemorate Aston Martin’s 100th year. Some of you may remember the car in front of us broke down and we lost sight of the other cars so ‘Brooke’ led us into the pit lane with the rest of the Aston Martins following where we gate crashed the winners podium event (probably one of the most embarrassing moments of my life).
When Martin passed away I thought it would be a fitting tribute to lead the funeral procession with Brooke. I was praying that we’d have a snow free day.
My intention to sell Brooke was put to one side as I learnt to drive this amazing car and fell in love with it. Since then Brooke has been on many outings mainly to Chatsworth where he’s relatively safe. He’s been to a supermarket car park a couple of times and fortunately not had any altercations with any trolley’s.
He’s also on some occasions had us puzzled and reaching for the instruction manual!!
He’s now gone to Brook Business Park on Brookhampton Lane, very near to where he originated from at the Aston Martin garage in Gaydon. Here he is, in his new home with lots and lots of Aston Martins.
Goodbye Brooke XX