This video is of a very early DB2 before they introduced the
hatchback. Actually the DB2/4 was the very first production car in
the world with a hatchback. The hatchback was put there so that the
owner had easy access to put his shotguns before motoring from London
to his country estate to do some trap-pheasant hunting.
I actually always preferred the 2, 2/4 and Mk III to the later DB
4/5/6 because the DB2 chassis was a smaller car.... maybe not as good
for handling but more in line with the original idea to put a very big
engine in a small car. Kind of what the original Scaglietti was
about. Of course the modern Scaglietti is anything but small.
Can anyone tell me (without looking it up on the internet) who
designed the AM engine?
Alan
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 5:38 AM, john spaur <jmsdarch at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Saw an Aston Martin DB2r at the body shop today. The only one surviving of
> two made. This car is similar but the one at the shop was a factory race car
> with two leather hood straps and dual fuel filler caps leading to a large
> tank in the back. It even had a third brake light! Beautiful car!
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXlwc5V6xkU
>
> John
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