- Prince William and Kate Middleton take a post-wedding spin in an Aston Martin DB6 Volante MkII.
- The royal couple was followed closely by a security detail in a Range Rover.
- Prince Charles has owned the DB6 since 1969 and converted it to run on biofuel.
LONDON — Prince William and his new bride, Kate Middleton, were escorted from Westminster Abbey to Buckingham Palace in a 99-year-old, horse-drawn royal carriage. But after their first public kiss on the balcony at Buckingham, the royal couple then surprised the throngs of well-wishers with an impromptu spin around town in Prince Charles's car — a 42-year-old Aston Martin DB6 Volante MkII.
The new Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, as they are now known, were followed closely on their jaunt by a security detail in a black Land Rover Range Rover.
Prince Charles' DB6 is finished in Seychelles Blue and has been converted to run on bioethanol made from "English wine wastage."
The Aston Martin DB6 bore a rear license plate that read "JU5T WED" as well as the block letter L (for Learner) in the grille.
Just 38 copies of the DB6 Volante MkII were built from July 1969 to November 1970. The convertible is powered by a 325-horsepower, 4.0-liter inline six-cylinder.
Earlier in the day, Miss Middleton was driven to the royal wedding ceremony at Westminster Abbey in Queen Elizabeth's claret-and-black 1977 Rolls-Royce Phantom VI.
Inside Line says: Some broadcast commentators covering the royal wedding stumbled over themselves trying to identify the car, with one network reporter gushing "I think that's a James Bond car.... It's an Aston Martin 007." — Paul Lienert, Correspondent
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ambee514 says:
06:42 AM, 04/30/2011
I was totally expecting that baby to overheat or something
sgude says:
05:08 AM, 04/30/2011
That wasn't William -- it was Ernst Stavro Blofeld, kidnapping the new bride! "The worlds' governments must pay me $500 billion and cede control of the world's biofuel markets to SPECTRE."
slickersdrip says:
06:13 PM, 04/29/2011
I'm so happy I'm an American and my family, who came over in the 1600's fought off the monarchy...
tdiluv says:
03:19 PM, 04/29/2011
She's lucky to come into that enormous wealth by just taking a walk down the Isle, God save the QUEEN!!
90in55 says:
03:10 PM, 04/29/2011
It took a lot of cojones to drive an old English sports car with an audience of billions. I kept waiting for something to fall off, or plumes of smoke wafting in the royal air
gmeda says:
12:41 PM, 04/29/2011
we need burnouts