Took the plunge and bought myself a DBS for my 40'th.
 

Figured it was time to come out from lurking as I've learned so much from this forum on my journey to becoming an Aston Martin owner. I have wanted an Aston Martin for as long as I could possibly remember and thought I'd use the excuse of my 40'th to finally convince myself to go out and get one. I tried to scratch the itch a year earlier with a 'poor man's Aston' (XK-R), and while an AWESOME car, it just wasn't IT. Several months ago I started by looking at relatively inexpensive DB9's and came very close to buying an '08 Sports Pack car but then decided I wanted at least an '09 so I went back to scouring the internet. The other thing I really wanted was a manual transmission. Needless to say, there are just not a lot of manual transmission cars out there and the price crept up as I honed in on finding a car with 'everything' I really wanted in a DB9 and soon found myself in low-end DBS territory. As a few months went on, I saw cars I was interested in and hesitated sell relatively quickly I made the decision to just go for it when I found something I like.

After spending WAY more than I originally intended what I wound up with was this:

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An '09 Storm Black on Black DBS manual transmission with 24,000 miles. I bought it in Dallas and drove it back to Austin and couldn't be happier with it! Having been a life-long gearhead, I've owned a lot of fun stuff but this just takes the cake and foresee it to be in my garage for a LONG time! Lots of firsts in this car for me (never owned anything with carbon brakes, V12, CF, etc.) and I'm going to have a TON of questions as I wrangle with a couple of fiddly issues but for now, I'm having a great time (as one of my good friends put it) beautifying America one mile at a time because there are few things on the road that look this amazing!

A quick shot of the stablemates:

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Beautiful. And well done on finding a manual.

An 09 DBS Manual is a dream, congrats and happy birthday

Congrats! Beautiful choice! I would've picked up a similar spec: Black/Black, manual transmission

Does it have the rear seats and seat belts?

nice choice

I started looking to spend around 60, which turned into 73.5, which after shipping and tax was 80, and after service was 90. Just a hair over plan LOL

Congrats on ending up with what you wanted, and happy 40th!.

I didn't know 9's came in 2+0. What is in place of the rear seats, a larger parcel shelf that the V8V?

I don't believe the 9's are available in 2+0 configuration (or at least, in all of my searching I've never seen one. The DBS's did have 2+0 as an option and were probably slightly less common than the 2+2 cars. It has two storage shelf type things back there.

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Never knew. Do the seats go back further for extra leg room or is the entire space filled by the dual parcels?

awesome ride! congrats!