{"id":52265,"date":"2018-10-01T11:54:24","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T10:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/?p=52265"},"modified":"2022-06-22T15:18:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T14:18:43","slug":"aston-martin-db4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/cars\/aston-martin-db4\/","title":{"rendered":"A Grand Touring heavyweight: 60 years of the Aston Martin DB4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thanks to its association with an infamous secret agent, the name \u2018Aston Martin\u2019 and the initials \u2018DB\u2019 conjure up all sorts of British spy movie connotations. But while the DB5 may well be popular culture\u2019s most famous David Brown creation, its numerically-named predecessor is just as significant. The DB5 may be James Bond, but the DB4 is certainly no Russ Abbott-lite Basildon Bond. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Aston-Martin-DB42.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Aston-Martin-DB42.jpg\" alt=\"DB4 profile\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The first \u2018modern\u2019 Aston Martin, the continentally-curvaceous DB4 glided down the automotive catwalk at the 1958 London Motor Show. A development of the DB Mark III, its Carrozzeria Touring-designed body and its lightweight tube-frame <em>superleggera<\/em> construction showcased stunning Italian style and advanced car building technologies. Each DB4\u2019s birthplace was more mundane than mediterranean, though, as the swoopy four-seater emerged from Aston\u2019s works at Newport Pagnell, the first Aston to do so.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Aston-Martin-DB4_03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Aston-Martin-DB4_03.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sitting in a Harold Beach-drafted platform chassis, the DB4\u2019s new 3.7-litre, six-cylinder Tadek Marek-designed all-alloy engine had been race proven in the DBR2. Thanks to its dieting disposition, the DB4 held the honour of being the first production car to race from 0 to 100mph and back again in under 30 seconds. The 240bhp, double overhead cam coup\u00e9 carried Aston back into sports car contention, and lost its top when the rare \u2013 only 70 of the 1,110 DB4s built had a soft top \u2013 \u00a34,194 convertible joined the \u00a33,976 closed roof car after a Paris motor show debut in 1961.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Aston-Martin-DB4_04.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Aston-Martin-DB4_04.jpg\" alt=\"DB4 cabrio\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And if the standard car put the grand back into Grand Tourer, the GT of 1959 heightened the DB4 experience. The ingredients were simple: a five-inch wheelbase chop, an 84kg reduction in weight, all-round disc brakes, and a power bump to 302bhp. The twin-plug, triple-carburettor 3.7-litre six GT knocked 10 seconds off the standard DB4\u2019s 0 to 100mph time, and was no doubt the brawniest British car of its time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Aston-Martin-DB4_05.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Aston-Martin-DB4_05.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Though built for racing, DB4 GT road cars were, like every Aston Martin, sumptuously appointed with Connolly hide and Wilton carpets. Enclosed headlights were added, the bumpers deleted and twin quick-release \u2018Monza\u2019 fuel fillers helped splash and dash top-ups. The GT dish was the tastiest DB4 yet, but its limited 75-unit production run meant few could savour it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Aston-Martin-DB4_06.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Aston-Martin-DB4_06.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Although the GT prototype won its first outing at the Bank Holiday weekend race at Silverstone in May 1959 with Stirling Moss behind the wheel, the DB4 wasn\u2019t the most successful British racing car ever \u2013 slightly odd when John Wyer, the man behind the Ford GT G40 was involved with the project \u2013 but it was the most beautiful. Until the even lighter and more alluring DB4 GT Zagato arrived in 1960. The achingly pretty two-seater was, as the name suggested, built by Carrozzeria Zagato of Milan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Aston-Martin-DB4_07.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Aston-Martin-DB4_07.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Styled by a young Ercole Spada, chassis were shipped out to Italy from Newport Pagnell for the bodies to be fitted, before being returned to Buckinghamshire for finishing. The UK price of \u00a35,157 sadly meant only 19 of the 314bhp DB4 GT Zagatos were made, six short of the proposed production figure. A quartet of cars were completed in 1991, with another pair of \u2018Sanction III\u2019 Zagatos built a year later. A single DB4 was styled by Bertone, and was known as the \u2018Jet\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Aston-Martin-DB4_08.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Aston-Martin-DB4_08.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The DB4 GT is one of the most coveted Astons ever, and a run of 25 DB4 GT Continuation cars were announced in 2016. If the 1959 price limited the original cars to only the well-heeled, the proposed \u00a31.5m asked for the additional newer 4.2-litre, 345bhp cars ensured that they were for those who had as much wealth as much as the GT Zagato had curves \u2013 and even that sum was around half of the DB4\u2019s contemporary value.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Aston-Martin-DB4_09.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Aston-Martin-DB4_09.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Heritage is now big business, and a new run of 19 DB4 Zagato Continuation cars has just been announced. Available at an even more ridiculously affluent \u00a36m, buyers will get a GT Zagato version of the new DBS Superleggera thrown in alongside (the pair christened the DBZ Centenary Collection to celebrate 100 years of the Italian coachbuilder). While we\u2019re sure they\u2019ll be as pant-wettingly gorgeous as the originals, there\u2019s definitely gold in them there retro hills.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Aston-Martin-DB4_10.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Aston-Martin-DB4_10.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Before the Bond-starring DB5 usurped it in 1963, the DB4 evolved through five \u2018series\u2019, and more powerful 266bhp Vantage versions arrived in 1961 with a trio of SU carbs and special cylinder heads. Spotters will note the DB4-style faired-in headlights, while 14 \u2018Vantage GT\u2019 cars married the GT\u2019s engine to the standard DB4 body. The DB4 GT\u2019s svelte style attracted not just racers, but celebrity aficionados, too: Peter Sellers was one notable owner. The actor\u2019s DB4 GT was one of just three cars fitted with rear seats, and it starred in the Sellers film <em>The Wrong Arm of the Law<\/em>, and suffered the indignity of being chased by a Wolseley 6\/90 police car. It recently sold for \u00a32.65m.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Aston-Martin-DB4_11.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Aston-Martin-DB4_11.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Often confused for its more infamous movie sibling \u2013 fittingly, a Series 5 DB4 Vantage was modified to become a prototype DB5 and starred in <em>Goldfinger<\/em> \u2013 the DB4 was a more pivotal machine. Shaping the style and direction for the Astons which followed it, the DB4 was an automotive British brute. It may have been built to super-light principles, but its pretty looks, powerful engine and Ferrari-fighting spirit cemented it as a heavyweight among 1960s GT cars.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Aston-Martin-DB4_12.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Aston-Martin-DB4_12.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to its association with an infamous secret agent, the name \u2018Aston Martin\u2019 and the initials \u2018DB\u2019 conjure up all sorts of British spy movie connotations. 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