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  Aston Martin DB4 GT Lightweight  

 From a sporting - if not necessarily a commercial - perspective, 1959 proved to be the most important year in Aston Martin’s history. At their twentieth attempt, they finally won the coveted Le Mans 24 Hours race; a result which proved instrumental in securing the World Championship for Sports Cars later that year. However, just one month previously, Stirling Moss had driven a striking new prototype GT - internally designated as DP199/1, but publicly identified as a DB4 GT - to victory on its race debut at Silverstone; a result which would also have similarly far-reaching implications for the company. Suitably refined, the definitive “Production” specification DB4 GT was publicly unveiled at the London Motor Show in September 1959. In effect a shorter-wheelbase and significantly lightened version of the company’s incumbent DB4 model, it was powered by a 3.7-litre, twin-plug ignition straight-six engine similar to that previously used in the magnificently brutal DBR2. Crucially, the car would be available in either roadgoing or racing specification, and in either left- or right-hand drive.A mere 75 Touring- and 19 Zagato-bodied DB4GTs were constructed, of which this example was numerically the 24th. 

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Aston-Martin DBR22 and DBR2

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1957 Aston Martin DBR2

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1957 Aston Martin DBR2

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Starring: Aston Martin DBR2

By swissclassiccar

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Starring: Aston Martin DBR2 

by Julien Morin Photographie  

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Aston Martin DBR2

photography by Tim Wallace