A Welsh welder purchased a run-down Aston Martin DB5 for cheap in 1973, with the intention to restore it. However, life interfered with his plans, so the car just sat abandoned in the driveway for 50 ...
The company's factory works brought the sports car back to life for its longtime owner, who bought it in 1973 for £900. Upon purchasing the Aston, it became John's daily driver until 1977, when he put ...
The Aston Martin Works restoration team has just rolled out a DB5 Vantage so polished it looks like it fell out of a Bond film. Yet the immaculate bare metal rebuild is only the second most ...
As a classic enthusiast with a penchant for projects, I’m tempted by old and unusable cars far more than most people would consider normal or healthy. Thankfully, a needy first-generation Ford Mustang ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A rare chance to own an Aston Martin DB5 in a completely unrestored state is coming up soon. An extensively used right-hand-drive 1963 Aston Martin DB5 will go under the hammer at the RM Sotheby's ...