In 1965, a man named David Brown was very much in love with his Aston Martin DB5.
Unfortunately, during the weekends, he found it to be somewhat unsuitable to carry his dogs and his insane amount of hunting gear in the boot. What to do, what to do…
Yes, ask Aston Martin to build a custom shooting break out of the DB5! Aston were busy enough making the regular DB5, so the coachfirm of Harold Radford built a custom, beautiful, gorgeous, stunning DB5 SB to our man David and to 11 other customers.
It was practical, still very fast, gorgeous, and pretty much unique. Can you find anything wrong with it other than the price? I can’t. I’d give a pinky you know.
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Aston Martin DB5 (1963)
Or what it was at first supposed to be, the DB4 Series 6. Fortunately, James Bond made sure the DB5 got its own merit. 314bhp in the Vantage version were definitely quite a match to those looks. I mean, between the DB5 and the E Type… please never, ever make me choose.
Aston Martin DB5 (1963)
One very improved DB4. 4 liter engine, producing 282bhp along with three SU carburettors. The Vantage edition added one more carburettor to the line-up and produced 314bhp.
It was also the best Bond car, ever.
