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Aston Martin to build new DB4 GT Racers...
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/TDjcZs4sTk2...S-qmX4mYdIyrQg |
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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 |
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I would buy 2. One to drive the snot out of, and one to "collect".
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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!
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Interesting. A 2 place DB4. Hmmm....
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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...b4/1961/429581 |
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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.
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This is the real thing. 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. |
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