Aston Martin DB4

The Aston Martin DB4 is a grand tourer that Aston Martin built from 1958 until 1963, named for the initials of Sir David Brown, who built the company up from 1947. It was not a development of the DB Mark III it replaced. It had a platform chassis and a new double overhead cam straight-six designed by Tadek Marek, and its superleggera body was designed by Carrozzeria Touring in Milan and caused a sensation at the 1958 London Motor Show. It was the first Aston Martin built at the Newport Pagnell works in Buckinghamshire. Variants included a convertible from 1961, the lightweight DB4 GT of 1959, the Zagato-bodied DB4 GT Zagato and the more powerful Vantage. The total production run was 1,110 cars.