Beschreibung:

The need to widen the appeal of the already successful DB2 resulted in the launch in October 1953 of the 2+2 DB2/4. Extensive revisions to the car’s rear end made room for two occasional seats and more luggage, the latter being accessed via a hatchback rear door. In addition, a raised roofline, one-piece windscreen, larger bumpers and other detail styling changes differentiated the newcomer from its predecessor. Otherwise, the DB2/4 remained much the same as the DB2. The 2.6-litre six-cylinder twin-cam engine came in tuned (125bhp) Vantage specification as standard for the 2/4 until 1954 when the 2.9-litre version was adopted (in April) for the drophead coupe and in August for the saloon. The Aston Martin Owners Club Register’s only entries for chassis number ‘LML702’ record prominent placings at the Cambridge 50 M C and Tempsford sprints in 1955 driven by Shepherd. During the 1970s and 1980s the car resided in New Zealand, its first recorded owner there (from 7th May 1970 at 27,359 miles) being one Franklyn John Clyne in Wellington. The car enjoyed three further owners in New Zealand up to 1989, by which time the mileage had risen to 55,499, and in June that same year was shipped back to the UK, coming into the present ownership. An accompanying MoT certificate issued 11th January 1990 records the mileage as 54,100, a figure at variance with that last recorded for New Zealand. The engine number on the C&E Form 386 (dated June 1989) is recorded as ‘VB6J/326’ (a 3-litre unit) while the Aston Martin O C register records it as ‘VB6E/50/1352’ (a 2.6-litre). However, this apparent anomaly is of academic interest only as the car possesses neither engine nor gearbox, both of which were removed during the course of body/chassis restoration undertaken during 1991, since when the car has been kept in dry storage. Finished in Silver Birch with Oxblood leather interior, the car comes with 1990s restoration photographs (x5) and old New Zealand logbook. Offered for restoration and without reserve, it is sold strictly as viewed.