ONE OF THE FIRST TWO DB2
VANTAGE DELIVERED with LML/50/19.
More information on this page.
Build sheet:
Sold new in the USA by Max
Hoffman.
1st owner Briggs Cunningham who had already LML/50/14 but LML/50/21 has
a Vantage engine.
Registrations: KA 07508, KA-AM 812 (Germany)
1950 Sam Collier Memorial Trophy G.P. Sebring, (B. Cunningham), 2nd in
class
Here are several scans thank to Marc.
In this race, there were three
Aston Martin DB2s: LML/50/13, LML/50/19 and LML/50/21.
You can see all of them on this photo below, taken from first page.
LML/50/21 is also seen on page 3:
Take notice of its washboard.
Here is another shot of LML/50/21
sent by Marc:
Here are two focus on Cunningham's
car:
Two other VERY LARGE photos :
1951 Giant's Despair Hillclimb, (B.
Cunningham), 1st in class 4
1951 Road test in Mechanics
Illustrated, April
Up-dated version in Tom McCahill on Sports Cars Fawcett
Publications Book No 131, 1951
Here it is ! Test by Tom McCahill. Many thanks to Marc for this document.
Better quality but smaller size ...
Tom Barnard thought that the bad
road holding in the McCahill article was due to the fact
that the car had not been fitted with an eccentric upper trailing link pin.
If you look at the worksheet on the build sheet you see that this was
fitted later in 1956...
Marc also found the 1955
reprint (Vol 4 no 6,
Summer & Autumn 1955) in far better quality !
1989 - 1992 Restored by German owner
1992 Hockenheim, John Wyer Memorial Meeting, pace car
Coy's Festival Silverstone
Baden-Baden Concourse, 2nd
1993 3rd J.W.M.M. Canadian Airbase, Baden-Baden
Silverstone DB2 reunion
Baden-Baden Concourse
1995 4th J.W.M.M. Hockenheim, pace car
Diamond Jubilee German Tour,
concourse, 3rd
1996 Featured in Motor Klassik,
January
1996 Motor Klassik
(thanks Marc)
Source AM Magazine (both above
and below)
Many photos of this car can be found on Internet...
... and in books:
(source
SCHLEG)
Recent photos: July 2010...
...and August 2010. Thanks Marc.
And in November 2010, LML/50/21 got
Lucas foglamps again:
