These rare, delivery-mile-only Astons could be yours for ‘half price’...
… but they’re still incredibly expensive, expecting to fetch over £3.75m at auction
Feast your eyes on this Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato and DBS GT Zagato pairing, which originally sold together under the ‘DBZ Centenary Collection’ acronym in 2019 for, wait for it, over six million pounds. Incredibly, just five years later, Aston Martin specialist Nicholas Mee and Company is offering the duo on the market again for around £3.75m. Bargain. Possibly.
Let’s begin with the vintage DB4, of which just 19 hand-built examples were ever made. Here, the aluminium body is finished in a rather lovely shade of Caribbean Pearl over Dark Blue, one of Aston Martin’s traditional colours.
The steel chassis and mechanical components have also been given a thorough rework, so its 3.7-litre flat-six is expected to put out around 314bhp and 278lb ft of torque. Not that something this expensive is ever likely to move on the road under its own steam, that is.
Next up is a DBS Superleggera which… no longer looks like a DBS Superleggera. No complaint because the resultant DBS GT Zagato is arguably even more stunning than the standard car. Key additions include a double bubble roof, new light clusters, a sculpted carbon fibre body and a grille which quite literally breathes.
And giving life to all that coach-built goodness is Aston’s 5.2-litre twin-turbo V12, which now sends an improved 760bhp and 664lb ft of torque to the tarmac through an eight-speed ZF automatic transmission. Like the DB4, this too was limited to just 19 units. And for context, that makes it even rarer than the One-77.
Nicholas Mee, the founder of, er, Nicholas Mee and Company said: “In the 40 or more years I have been dealing in Aston Martin cars, I have never seen demand for the Zagato variants dwindle. They remain irresistible; beautifully crafted, timeless in design and incredibly rare, they’re always near the top of a collector’s wish list.
“With the DBZ Centenary Collection, we have a pair of cars that’s likely to never be repeated by Aston Martin, as it moves away from Continuation models. This is a chance to acquire both an icon and a future icon of one of the automotive industry’s most enduring and effective unions.”
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