If you are in the Minneapolis region, or know of any Aston owners in Minnesota, Western Wisconsin, Northern Iowa, etc. on April 23rd at Millrace (millracemotorclub.com) in St Louis Park we will be holding the first meeting of the Midwest Aston Martin Owners Group (currently over 100 members, FB) to discuss the current situation with Aston Martin, status of local service and factory support (Aston Martin Minneapolis closed), events, drives, and more. Millrace is an impressive new club that will have a grand opening May 1st, we get to be one of the first groups using this facility. I have been in recent communication with Aston Martin on the prospect of having a local Factory service center. We will not get, nor do we need a sales center, but the service center seems likely (so far). Since 2007, I've been organizing drives and events haphazardly and last minute. This meeting is to create more order, gain ideas, and consensus - and also to get an exclusive tour of this exciting new facility (Millrace) by it's founder Kyle Foundry. We will also talk about the new Autocross facility that should be open spring 2027 (youtu.be/7waeN2kl2-c). Please PM me with your information if you want to attend.

 

Great initiative for the local community!

 

I had a great talk with Adrian Hallmark yesterday on my 35+ years experience and my thoughts about Aston - He's well aware of the issues and I think he is working on the fixes but its going to take time. Now that they shut down Aston Martin Minneapolis service (my most pressing issue), he asked how far is the closest Aston Service, and he sounded truly concerned when I said 7 hour drive (used to be 3 minutes).