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DB4 G.T.
ICONIC FAST MOTORING.
BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE.
‘EMBODYING THE LESSONS OF TEN YEARS OF ENDEAVOUR ON THE MOST ARDUOUS RACE
CIRCUITS OF THE WORLD THIS NEW GRAND TOURING MODEL IS DESIGNED TO PROVIDE
FOR THE MOST CRITICAL OF HIGH PERFORMANCE CAR OWNERS A CULMINATING
EXPERIENCE OF REALLY FAST MOTORING. ITS PERFORMANCE IS UNIQUE; ITS BEHAVIOUR IS
IMPECCABLE; IT IS EMINENTLY SAFE WHETHER IN COMPETITION OR NORMAL ROAD USE’.
ASTON MARTIN DB4 G.T. BROCHURE, 1959
Artist’s impression
DB4 G.T.
WHERE IT ALL BEGAN.
Oh to be at Newport Pagnell in 1959. In this year of
years, not only would Aston Martin take an historic
outright victory in the Le Mans 24 Hours with the
glorious DBR1, it also launched a car that would go
on to become one of the most coveted and celebrated
Aston Martin road and race cars of all time. That car
was the DB4 G.T.
Evolved from the series production DB4 launched
at the Paris Motor Show the previous year, the DB4
G.T. was a true supercar of its day. Shorter, lighter
and sleeker, with more potent brakes to cope with
the enhanced power of its highly developed 3.7-litre
straight-six engine, the DB4 G.T. was conceived to be
the ultimate road racer. It didn’t disappoint.
Britain’s fastest passenger sports car, the DB4 G.T.
was a born winner, Stirling Moss wasted no time
in proving the point by steering the first prototype
(DP199) to a debut win in front of a home crowd at
Silverstone. The rest really is history.
In the four years it was in production a total of just
75 DB4 G.T.s were built, alongside regular DB4s at
Aston Martin’s Newport Pagnell factory. Ten were
built expressly for racing — eight of those to a special
factory lightweight specification — but all were
registered for the road. Since 1959 at least half of the
75 have been used for competition purposes and all
but one survive today.
Speak to those fortunate to have driven one and they
will tell you the DB4 G.T. has few peers. No wonder
it ranks as one of the rarest, most revered and most
valuable of all Aston Martins.
DB4 G.T.
A TIMELESS COMPETITION ICON.
Built by a marque at the height of its creative and
competitive powers, the DB4 G.T. was a force to be
reckoned with. Of course it helped that Aston Martin’s
latest, greatest road racer attracted the world’s best
drivers — men like Jim Clark, Stirling Moss, Phil Hill
and Bruce McLaren — but the truth is they knew a
great racing car when they saw one. Their talent and
the DB4 G.T.’s brilliance would prove to be an
inspirational combination.
Ahead of its time — and more often than not,
the opposition — the DB4 G.T. was a new breed of
competition car. In modern parlance it was a
homologation special, highly evolved from the series
production DB4 on which it was based. Blessed
with intensified performance and enhanced agility,
the DB4 G.T. stole a march on both Jaguar and
Ferrari, cementing Aston Martin’s position as makers
of world-beating GT cars.
Half a century later the DB4 G.T. is a highly prized
and hugely valuable classic. A timeless icon from
a bygone era.
STIRLING MOSS (1959, SILVERSTONE)
DB4 G.T. AN ICON.
DB4 G.T. (1959)

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