![]() Our subject car is a working explanation, a visual lesson, if you will, of why originality is so highly prized. An aura that was created right here at Newport Pagnell, lest we forget. While both of the Mk IIs were well kept and well presented, this 15,000-miler was notably fresher, its completely original leather glowing with a vitality that re-trims just can’t replicate - however hard they try to emulate that original Aston Martin feel. Low mileage, great history and a splendid interior, basically. What’s going on here? What made this Mk I worth so much? However, our subject car raised almost $160k more than either of the cars above. The choice of transmission doesn’t appear to affect the value much, although when push comes to shove, the 5-speed manual will always just shade it. There were roughly twice as many DB6s built as DB5s, which will always suppress prices, but the market likes Mk IIs for their power steering. The DB6 has finally caught up to where DB5s were five years ago - probably pulled up by the older car taking another huge leap in the past 12 months to settle in the £650k–£750k ($1m–$1.15m) range.Ĭoincidentally, both Bonhams and H&H sold Mk II automatics less than $3,000 apart at sales separated by only three weeks. This car, Lot 217, sold for $757,446, including buyer’s premium, at Bonhams’ annual sale of Aston Martins at Aston Martin Works, Newport Pagnell, U.K., on May 9, 2015. Genuine NOS £150 ($230)Īston Martin Owners’ Club, PO Box 400 Drayton St. Throughout its time with the current owner’s family, the DB6 has been stored in a climate-controlled garage beneath a fitted cover, and is presented today in essentially the same condition as when purchased.ġ969 Aston Martin DB6 Mk I Vantage Sports Saloon and various independent marque specialists a substantial quantity of expired MoT certificates and tax discs and all invoices for works carried out while in the current family ownership. Parry’s original green logbook the owner’s manual, service book and warranty card supplied with the car when new correspondence with Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd. ![]() The low mileage noted and registration number listed in the advertisement caught the attention of the current owner’s father, and a deal was done subject to inspection by the factory.Īpproximately 20 years ago, the car’s purchaser passed it to his son, who offers it today with a full file including registration documents going back to, and including, Mr. Parry reluctantly decided to sell, and an advertisement was placed in the Sunday Times. Manufactured in April 1969, the car was delivered to Wilmslow Garages Limited of Wilmslow, Cheshire, and registered shortly thereafter to its first owner, Mr. ![]() A Borg-Warner automatic transmission was offered alongside the standard ZF five-speed gearbox, and for the first time, there was optional power-assisted steering.Ī home-market model manufactured to Vantage specification, complete with the 5-speed manual gearbox, DB64012R was ordered with a Waso steering lock, front seat belts, fog lamps, chrome road wheels, heated rear window, three-ear spinners, a 3.73:1 limited-slip differential, power aerial and Avon tires. Power output on triple SU carburetors was 282 bhp, rising to 325 bhp in Vantage specification, complete with triple Webers. The Tadek Marek-designed 6-cylinder engine had been enlarged to 3,995 cc for the preceding DB5 and remained unchanged. Indeed, but for the distinctive Kamm tail, one might easily mistake it for a DB5. These many-dimensional changes were integrated most successfully, the DB6’s overall length increasing by only two inches. Opening front quarter lights made a reappearance, but the major change was at the rear, where a Kamm-style tail with spoiler improved the aerodynamics, greatly enhancing stability at high speeds. Increased rear-seat space was the prime DB6 objective, so the wheelbase was now four inches longer than before, resulting in an extensive restyle with a more-raked windscreen, raised roofline and reshaped rear quarter windows. The culmination of Aston Martin’s long-running line of DB 6-cylinder sports saloons and thus considered by many to be the last real Aston, the DB6 had been introduced in 1965, updating the DB5.Īlthough recognizably related to the Touring-styled DB4 of 1958, the DB6 abandoned the Carrozzeria Touring-developed Superleggera body structure of its predecessors in favour of a conventional steel fabrication while retaining the aluminum outer panels.
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