1962 Aston Martin DB4 Fastback Coupe

This Aston Martin DB4 Series IV/L is one of seven left-hand-drive examples factory-fitted with the more powerful GT engine. It was assembled in late March 1962, fitted with a GT engine, overdrive, a clutch and oil cooler, a DB4GT instrument panel with oil temperature gauge, a brake servo, a Bray block heater, and standard chrome wheels. It wore black paint over an interior trimmed with red Connolly Vaumol leather. It was shipped in late April of 1962 to the American importer J.S. Inskip and then subsequently delivered to the purchaser, Henry Dingley Jr., of Auburn, Maine.

The intermediary history is currently unknown. By January of 1985, the car was in the care of Thomas Clark of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. It later passed to S.A. Taylor in the United States before being acquired in 1992 by Philip Cowan, a resident of Guernsey in the Channel Islands. During 1992 Cowan consigned the DB4 to Rolf Annecke of Neuenkirchen, Germany, and he purchased the car outright by the end of the year.

Annecke embarked on several rounds of restoration. He initially commissioned a cosmetic refurbishment with some mechanical freshening in 2005, opting to change the paint color to Deep Carriage Green. In 2006, the engine was sent to Roos Engineering in Switzerland for a rebuild.

The current owner acquired the DB4 in early 2014. In the summer of 2014, the new owner began by commissioning Philip Vilain in Brussels to completely restore the coachwork, including a bare-metal refinish in the original factory color of black. In 2015, the car received a full round of freshening that included installing a new radiator, steering wheel, front and rear windscreens, headlamps, and accelerator pedal. The interior was correctly re-trimmed with red leather, Wilton wool carpets, and a proper headliner.

In late September 2016, the DB4 was issued a Gold Certification book from Aston Martin Works.

By Daniel Vaughan | Dec 2019