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IRT Aston Martin values, is this what you had?

Rotting 'yard find' Aston Martin DB4 worth a fortune | Fox News

[MBAtarga]

Yep - DB4.

[Joe Bob]

Money pit....best to sell as-is and walk away with a smile.

[Hugh R]

Wow, I sold a little early, I guess.

[masraum]

One of just 1,113 DB4s produced, the four-seat coupe is largely original, save for the new engine and paint job it appears to have picked up prior to its trip east. Its 3.7-liter inline six was rated at 240 hp when new, and the car features a 4-speed transmission with Laycock Overdrive, disc brakes and “knock-off” wire wheels.

Worldwide Auctioneers will be pushing the car across the block at its Scottsdale, Ariz., event on January 18, and estimates that it will sell for somewhere in the $375,000 - $475,000 range. If that sounds like a lot for a derelict, the Hagerty Price Guide says that it could be worth at $2.5 million or more when fully restored.

Or if you don't want to go to the trouble, you could buy a brand new one from Aston Martin, which is producing 25 continuation cars next year for about $1.9 million each.

I think I'd rather pay a ridiculous sum for one of the new ones if I had more money than I knew what to do with.

[Hugh R]

I sold it because I wasn't driving it much anymore and when I rebuilt it the parts, like main bearings from AM were crap. They hadn't re-tooled any of the dies since the 70's. I needed main bearing clearances of .750 to 1.25 thou clearances, the bearings supplied by AM gave me clearances of 3 thou. I ended up having the crank ground 20 thou and hard chrome plated back to get the correct clearances. I had to have pistons made by Vanolia in Long Beach. If you needed ANY trannie parts, you were hosed, as it was a David Brown transmission and they only made a few hundred extra trannies in the World. The alternative was to cut the drive shaft, weld in new trannie mounts and stuff in a German ZF which made the car a jalopy and killed the originality.

I sold it as a matching numbers car to the Prime Minister of Kuwait for stupid (then) money.

I miss it, but it was the right time for me to sell. At the time, it represented about 1/4 of my net worth. A very rich man's (not me) toy.

Bought it in 1971 in the UK when I was in the USMC for $1,750, about the price of a used Ford Pinto, and shipped it to Boston, the British Colonel I bought it from had acquired it in the Sudan, it was originally sold in Switzerland. So I owned it for 36 years.

Took the money, paid off ALL my debt, including lingering bills from Donna's breast cancer surgery, bought a beach condo in Oxnard, CA which has doubled in value since then and dumped the rest into the stock market at its very lowest in 2008, and I've done real, real well with that.

If you're remotely interested, here is a link to what it looked like when I did a run with the Porsche boys with it. Mulholland Drive Today + Pics (Ferrari learns her place)...

[speeder]

Originally Posted by Hugh R

Wow, I sold a little early, I guess.

Could be. It sounds like you did well w the $$ you got for it, though, so that is good. It sounds like it's a $2M car now(?)

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An AM next to a Corvair?