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Way back in 1962, when most of you were in your 30's (grin) Aston Martin was trying to beat Ferarri. They weren't having much luck, so they sent 19 cars to Italian coachbuilder Zagato for custom bodies and overall lightening. As the story goes, Zagato took almost 100 lbs out of the car. They built 19 aluminum bodies and 17 cars.

They never did beat Ferarri, but they built one of the most beautiful cars ever.

Sotheby's auctions figured this one would go for $17M. It sold for a measly $14M to the guy that started and owns Weathertech Floormats. He sent it off to a premier resto shop and had a frame off resto done.

Dad did the interior the first time in 2017 before the owner took it to England for a rally race. The second time Dad did it was for it's trip to Pebble Beach in 2019.

It ended up winning it's class (Zagato Centenial Post War), an Elegance Trophy and was one of four cars nominated for best in show. Apparently, it's pretty rare for a post war car to even be in the running. It certainly looks out of place with the Bentley.

Here are pics from the first time Dad did the interior. He was pretty nervous having a $14M car in there.











The second time Dad did it, it showed up like this.





What it was up against



The win



And the final four.

Oh man, that is sweeeet!!

Beautiful cars. Thanks for sharing the photos!

Cool cars. Thanks for posting.

Only Marque I'd give up my 911 for !

I'd have to pop the hood!

100 pounds or 1000 pounds lightened?

That’s one sexy beast as Austin Powers would say!

I saw one of those in Spain many moons ago. It sounded and looked beautiful.

One hundred pounds.

Here's a pretty good article on it.

https://silodrome.com/aston-martin-db4-gt-zagato/

Sweet car!

Higginez;
Good afternoon again my friend, I still hope you're all having a wonderful day.

Thanks again for the photos and videos, as always I enjoyed them immensely.

The whole realm of vintage autos, especially European and British is really something that I'm only very distantly aware of as far as automotive stuff goes so it's all very educational too.

All the best to you all.

Dwayne

Dwayne,

You bet. Since Dads best friend and business partner of 50+ years died a little over a year ago, I've been trying to stop in and check on him without him thinking I'm stopping in to check on him. Taking pics of the cars has been a pretty good smoke screen.

All the best to you and yours as well.

Higgins

Beautiful cars!

This ^^^

Higginez;
Thanks for the reply and I'm sorry to hear about your Dad's business partner.

Good on you for checking up on your father though sir, shows character - well done.

Thanks again and all the best to you all in the upcoming week.

Dwayne

Woooooo(wipes drool off lower lip)oooow!!!!

Could buy a good Aston Martin in the 70s for 5k in the 70s of course I was making 19 grand.

You should have bought three a year! LOL