The Cliveden House Hotel, about 30 miles outside of London, has been chosen by RM Sotheby’s as the venue for an impressive auction of collector cars to be held on Wednesday, June 12. Among some ...
Williams bought the car in 1973 for just £900 (about $20,000 today). It was his daily driver for four years, according to Aston Martin. Whether Williams knew it at the time he bought it or not, this ...
When he was just a teenager, John Williams decided he wanted to own an Aston Martin DB5. After saving up for a year and taking overtime whenever he could, John found the scratch he needed to make his ...
Replaced by the DB6 after 1,021 units were assembled in Newport Pagnell, the DB5 is, without a shadow of a doubt, Aston Martin’s most revered production car. Made famous by Albert Romolo Broccoli’s ...
McGurk Performance Cars, a specialist in everything Aston Martin, has convincingly made good use of lockdown as they celebrate the completion of a restoration project on a beautiful and rare 1964 ...
Of course, if you’re the kind of collector uninterested getting your hands greasy, this auction might not for you. Bonhams isn’t kidding when it says that this DB5—which dates to the car’s second year ...
Welcome to the finest Aston Martin DB5 you’ll see. Not because it’s a low-mileage artefact that’s been preserved in a temperature-controlled garage, nor because it was once owned by the Queen of so ...
An Aston Martin DB5 that a teenager bought for £900 in the 1970s could net its long-time owner £1 million more than 50 years later. Welshman John Williams - a welder and garage owner by trade - was ...
A British industrialist who saved Aston Martin in February 1947, the one and only Sir David Brown is the gentleman who gave the British automaker the DB nomenclature we know and love. The 2-Litre ...
You know a car is good when it was made specifically for the marque’s leader. The rarity was one of just 123 DB5 convertibles ever built and was delivered to Brown in January of 1964. As you might ...
“Ran when parked, needs a little work” is a common refrain for those of us who scour Craigslist like it’s light evening reading. All sorts of half-finished and likely broken projects come up for sale ...
David Brown bought Aston Martin in 1947 and his legacy continues to this day as that’s where the ‘DB’ moniker comes from. While that’s interesting to note, we’re far more intrigued by this 1964 DB5 ...