John Spinks 1956-2002

Aston Martin
Steve Waddingham

I worked with John whilst he was at Aston Martin during the mid-1990s (1994-95 I think?).

We kept in touch on and off since then - I traced him to his last place of work (somewhere in Bedford, sorry I don't know the company name) thru an amusing letter that he had wrote to a utterly boring magazine (Marketing Week.) The letter pointed out that the Magazine had referred to a Land Rover "Freeloader", I can't remember what he wrote exactly - but it was funny. Having read the letter I then realised that it was John and I tracked him down to his new work place...

John only worked at Aston for a (by our standards!) relatively short time - however, he made his mark on the place and entered the "Aston Martin Hall of Fame" - in fact we were only talking about him a couple of weeks ago.

John was always fun to work with, his driving was legendry (it was always fun to see what shade of green passengers had turned to when they got out of his car), his curly "Scouser" hair-cut, his Caterham 7 (complete with a pile of base-ball hats in the passenger footwell so you had a spare when your hat flew off!) - best of all: you never knew what crazy thing he would do next...

Happy memories, I'm sure everybody will remember John for his sense of fun and we must continue to swap stories about him.