{"id":21168,"date":"2011-06-24T12:27:11","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T11:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=21168"},"modified":"2022-06-22T12:48:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T11:48:44","slug":"aston-martin-db4-gt-superleggera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/cars\/aston-martin-db4-gt-superleggera\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Martin DB4 GT Superleggera"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This gobsmacking beauty has been sitting around in our image files for months now. Every now and then we’ve been firing up the Adobe Suite and opening the hi-res files and simply wasting a few minutes of valuable time taking in the spectacle. We haven’t really wanted to share, but on this midsummer weekend we cracked.<\/p>\n

Only six of these lightweight versions of the already rare DB4 GT were ever made – and the ‘superleggera’ tag didn’t mean that the gentlemanly presence of Aston Martin was compromised. The fastback coachwork was designed by Touring<\/a>, the carrozzeria<\/em> in MIlan, and produced under licence at Newport Pagnal. The bulk of weight was struck off the ordinary GT by reducing the wheelbase – and the engine could produce in excess of 300 BHP.<\/p>\n

This is a 1963 version that was auctioned by RM<\/a> recently – and you can see more than a passion resemblance to the great Ferrari 250 SWB Berlinetta<\/a>s with which it was often seen in competition.<\/p>\n

We love the SWB, but we think this Lightweight Aston pips it in the aesthetic stakes.<\/p>\n

Images Courtesy RM Auctions<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t