Underrated Aston Martin
As a classic enthusiast you can still remember the years when the nose was picked up for an Aston Martin DBS? A nice and good-running copy could be purchased without any problems for an amount of ten mille and less. Those days are counted.
Rust
A DBS - supplied with a six-cylinder in-line or a V8 engine - is currently making a fortune. Although also with an aluminum carriage, the frame underneath - which, just like the other DB models, had a can of rust - was very horrible. A handy sprayer ensured that not only the paintwork was applied thicker than thick on the outside, but that the inside in particular was richly provided with bitumen so that it was not easily visible that it was a 'pastry'. Just as said Edelkoetsenfabrikant - owned by tractor manufacturer David Brown (hence the letters DB in the type designation) - was right with the DB2 and DB4, so did 1967 with the DBS. In those years it became clear that designers had to say goodbye to styling from the fifties. A DB6 was brought to the design department of Aston Martin and 'house designer' William William was instructed to make something completely different.
The design
His final creation would continue to run through the model range as a common thread for a quarter of a century. The chassis of the DB6 was made almost 12 centimeters wider, the wheelbase extended by two and a half centimeters to place the engine a little further in the rear. All this to obtain a better balance and therefore better handling. Although a longer wheelbase, the DBS eventually became almost 4 centimeters shorter, but 15 centimeters wider. Because the V8 engine designed by the Pool Tadeusz 'Tarek' Marek was not yet ready for production, the car was equipped with the 4 liter six-cylinder power source from the DB6. And if you then wanted the faster 'Vantage' version, nothing extra had to be paid for it. The V1970 version was only available in 8. After a total of 829 specimens had left the factory gate in Newport Pagnell, County of Buckinghamshire, in May 1972 fell for this model. For a beautiful and actually good copy, today a lot of euros are paid with love.