Ringbrothers Perfects the Restomod With Their Aston-Martin-Based Octavia

For most of my childhood, I wanted to be a car designer. I’ve always loved cars, and would flick through magazines, read all eight volumes of “Car Design Yearbook,” and watch “Top Gear” on repeat, but the moment that hit me, where I understood why cars could be so special, was a review that Jeremy Clarkson did for his “Telegraph” column about the 1990s Aston Martin V8 Vantage. The car resembles a muscle car, but it’s made in Britain, with British style, elegance, and a price tag to match. He described it as an “iron fist in a leather glove,” and that one expression has sat with me for almost two decades now. It captured that car so perfectly, and what made it special.