THE ASTON BARN PROJECT :
DB2/4
Note : all photos are clickable to see them in a much
larger
size.
all photos have a
'source' given. Please have a look at my bibliography to decode.
In this page, we'll try to gather
a wealth of unrestored, survivor or
wrecked Aston Martins... PLEASE SEND IF YOU FIND
SOMETHING
THAT'S NOT HERE !
LML/522
Out of the barn after a 35 years sleep ! Thanks Rick for the photos.
LML/549 (previously
listed as unknown DB2/4 #6)
Much work needed for this one...
LML/571
Fellow Hans sent me some photos of this car with those comments: Sending some photos of my car
LML/571 when we were about to collect it from a nearby town in
1995, and
when my father and a friend of him started to strip it
down. It had
been in that garage for at least 25 years and it came with a Chevy
Corvette engine, but fortunately they hade kept the original 2,6
litre, even though it had a hole on one side of the block that ensured
a
good crankcase breathing. But my father found a used block in
England so
now it has its original engine VB6E /50/1303. And some photos of 571 in
the
fifties, a couple of them taken at our yard. So yes, my father seemed
to have done something on that car as well.
Maybe exterior finish should be left as is... Or only varnished.
Note the louvers both on and at the side of the hood. See below:
It seems that only one other DB2/4
was so equipped: LML/928. Both were first delivered in France.
Here is LML/928:
LML/707 is surely the only one
DB2/4 with Messier shocks.
Exterior and exterior have been modified in the 1960s. Looks like
bigger lamps were fitted below headlamps.
LML/737
Sold at auction for £89,400 on 25 November 2010 by Historics at Brooklands
along with LML/659 (also on this page).
History (PDF) :
22 zipped photos (click on the following photo to download)
:
Here are some ...
LML/778
Some nice photos of this car found here
on Flickr. The whole "Cool Cars" gallery is really smart by the way.
What I found the most striking was the YKT 423B because as a "B",
it' a 1964 one.
Maybe this is a later re-registration, the first owner having kept the
original (cherished ?).
I think it's much more probably an import.
But I also found that there was LML/800 (a DHC) that got YKT 871B !
Same DVLA office (KT looks like Northampton).
Only 449 numbers later !
And LML/800 is said to have been found in a barn in the 1990s...
LML/796
Not really an unrestored car but
a wrecked car... Writer Françoise Sagan's DHC
Sold on eBay Motors : a barnfind DB2/4 DHC with a Chevrolet Corvette
engine.
A cool hot rod or to be precise a street machine considering the year
of manufacture...
More power with a (shoehorned !) Corvette engine...
Seller showed photos of a similar model engine bay. Much work
needed !!!
and 
taille maxi... / maximum size...
(Byron)
& 
(Marreyt)
