DB4 GT

[mikial]

www.donrose.com/DB4GT-LW.html


I love this.

[Shadytree]

Beautiful car indeed, probably worth at least a Janette Street Porter

[mikial]

Shadytree said:

Beautiful car indeed, probably worth at least a Janette Street Porter

A cool quarter of a million, no good for a weekend in Yarmouth , street parked then?

[FourWheelDrift]

Another nice one at Gregor Fiskens - www.gregorfisken.com/
And a nice DB4 Lightweight here too - www.classiccarsforsale.co.uk/classic-car-page.php?carno=2394

Unsuprisingly POA's

Love them.

[mikial]

That green one looks savage, stunning.

So far , I reckon the blue one has the edge for me.

[v12Aston]

I think you will find that it is alot closer to £500,000 for a good one with history. Seriously good car to drive and utterly stunning to look at.

[mikial]

I recall David Piper in an article written in Octane , in it he mentioned a Ferrari GTO could be bought for £7 thousand in the late sixties early seventies ( fuel crisis and petrol coupons, anyone remember )I wonder if the DB4GT was in the same straits in that period ?

[v12Aston]

I am sure the 250 GTO (regardless of the economic phases)has always been more expensive than the DB4 GT. Obviously two very different cars which had different "results" in period and very different values now.

DB4 GT - 75 cars with the Touring body, 19 Zagato bodied, 1 bodied by Bertone and up to 4 chassis used for the Works Project cars ( 212, x2 214 and 215) Base UK price (incl tax) in 1961
was £4,668 for touring body and £5,470 for Zagato.

250 GTO - customer car were of course made for homologation for which they should have made 100 but in the usual Enzo style they made 39! 33 "normal" , 3 later called 330LMB and 3 '64 spec
If I remember rightly, the price was about $18,000 US in period

Dont forget that although there is great adulation for the cars now, that at one point they were both just very expensive out of date race cars. The advent of the large collectors in the late 70's and in particular the 1980's pushed up the value of such things.

I suppose that the best comparison between the two is the DB4 GT Zagato and the 250 GTO. However the 250 GTO still wins out on performance, period results and indeed value today.

[williamp]

v12Aston said:

I am sure the 250 GTO (regardless of the economic phases)has always been more expensive than the DB4 GT. Obviously two very different cars which had different "results" in period and very different values now.

DB4 GT - 75 cars with the Touring body, 19 Zagato bodied, 1 bodied by Bertone and up to 4 chassis used for the Works Project cars ( 212, x2 214 and 215) Base UK price (incl tax) in 1961
was £4,668 for touring body and £5,470 for Zagato.

250 GTO - customer car were of course made for homologation for which they should have made 100 but in the usual Enzo style they made 39! 33 "normal" , 3 later called 330LMB and 3 '64 spec
If I remember rightly, the price was about $18,000 US in period

Dont forget that although there is great adulation for the cars now, that at one point they were both just very expensive out of date race cars. The advent of the large collectors in the late 70's and in particular the 1980's pushed up the value of such things.

I suppose that the best comparison between the two is the DB4 GT Zagato and the 250 GTO. However the 250 GTO still wins out on performance, period results and indeed value today.

Both fabulous cars. But the Aston was quite a bit older then the Ferrari- it started in 59, when Ferrari were still using their SWB model. The 250GTO did outlcass the Zagato, and it took the project cars to compete (and beat) them. Then Aston withdrew, Ferrari went mid-engined and Ford turned up...

These days you would also include a lightweight E-type, but although successful it didnt have the same results as the Aston or Ferrari, or the D-type. These days, there is so much deelopment on the cars that any of the three could win- and the lightweight E-types often do win.

Of course, we havent mentioned the Cobra, or the Daytona Coupes, or the giant killing Elan 26R, etc etc....

[v12Aston]

Quite agree - and you are right to say that the DB4 GT was out before the 250 GTO.