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lspencer534
01-01-2017, 5:22pm
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Aston knows there’s the demand, so is going to build the cars, plain and simple. Only 25 are going to be made, and with each one being hand-built by Aston Martin Works at Newport Pagnell, so such labors of love won’t be cheap. Especially when you're not just buying a car, but a two-year international track driving program, too – these continuation cars are track-only models and Aston rather wants you to use them there.

As for the car itself… Well beauty is guaranteed as Aston isn’t messing around with the basic, beautiful shape. The GT version of the DB4 was launched back in 1959, with a shorter wheelbase (taking it down from four to two seats) and a more powerful version of the 3.7-litre straight-six engine, with 340bhp punted to the rear wheels through a four-speed manual 'box and limited-slip diff.

And the VIN numbers will carry on from the last original DB4 GT ordered (chassis 0202R, if you're interested) for what Aston declares is ‘an unbroken bloodline’.
https://drivetribe.com/p/TDjcZs4sTk2ompfh_xC4cw/bJa_3deCS-qmX4mYdIyrQg

ApexOversteer
01-01-2017, 6:43pm
Copying Jaguar, who just built some new 1963 E-Type Lightweights last year and now they're building new 1957 XKSS's...

Born again E-Type: Six new jaguars with 1963 chassis numbers are set to roll off the production line... for just £1.2million each* | Daily Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3094445/Born-E-Type-Six-new-jaguars-1963-chassis-numbers-set-roll-production-line-just-1-2million-each.html)


The New Jaguar XKSS - Jay Leno's Garage - YouTube

snide
01-01-2017, 7:37pm
I would buy 2. One to drive the snot out of, and one to "collect".

69camfrk
01-01-2017, 11:18pm
On the Jag note, I saw a British racing green E-type coupe V-12 car here in town the other day. Mechanic special or not, that thing was beautiful!

lspencer534
01-02-2017, 9:35am
On the Jag note, I saw a British racing green E-type coupe V-12 car here in town the other day. Mechanic special or not, that thing was beautiful!

The most beautiful car ever built, IMO. And the only car on permanent display at MMOA.

Fasglas
01-02-2017, 9:46am
Interesting. A 2 place DB4. Hmmm....

From the comments:

It's a car that can't be used on the road and won't be allowed in historic racing events because it's not historic.

I don't need to be able to afford it, to know it's a nonsense, an objet d'art, a trinket for the rich, like reproduction furniture.

Honestly, I can't think of one reason why this is a good idea. You can't race them, you can't drive it on the road, they'll have no patina, history or provenance, and they dilute an amazing brand and model. An oligarch gets a new toy, pointless...

Can't see the point: being track-only means there'll be limited opportunity to drive it - and they'll still be lots of money. Presumably not welcome at Goodwood either.

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All in all, were I seriously in the hunt for such a car, there are, IMO, better paths to follow. Here's an excellent example:

https://www.classicdriver.com/en/car/aston-martin/db4/1961/429581

ApexOversteer
01-02-2017, 3:37pm
Interesting. A 2 place DB4. Hmmm....

From the comments:



They'll be eligible for certain historic events. There are plenty of replicas and continuation cars running around historic racing paddocks, and virtually none of them were built by the original maker of the original cars.

ApexOversteer
01-02-2017, 3:44pm
On the Jag note, I saw a British racing green E-type coupe V-12 car here in town the other day. Mechanic special or not, that thing was beautiful!

Yuck.

This is the real thing.


https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/be/b0/f4/beb0f4556ea294656604b0e04f917b25.jpg


1961 to 1968 Series I, 3.8 or 4.2 Straight 6, those are the real deal, the car Enzo Ferrari called The Prettiest Car Ever Made. They look right, they sound right and they go right.

The 12 Cylinder cars are not the real E-Type, they're the late-C3 of the E-Type, diluted, luxurified, uglified, fattened.