AMOC member and forum regular Andrew Honychurch recently complete the Paris to Peking event, co-driving a DB5 with its owner Adrian Gosden. The DB5 was prepared by RS Williams it was specially adapted for the event. 

The DB5 came third in the Classic category and third overall.

The event took over 37 days, covered 9500 miles and visited 11 countries, starting in China at the Great Wall and driving through Mongolia where the route was desert and unmade roads.  The floods that had effected Pakistan had washed away most of the roads in some parts of the journey which contributed to this being regarded as the hardest event to date according to rally organiser Philip Young.

Other countries visited were, Turkmanistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakstan, Iran, Russia, Turkey, Greece, Italy and on to the finish on Paris on Saturday.  

The Aston managed to survive where other cars did not and took its occupants to a Gold medal and third place, despite some shock absorber problems. 

You can see more pictures and get a Blackberry-fed blow-by-blow account from Andrew's blog .