Equipment
Painted Borrani wheels, Smiths gauges, triple Webers, full width Plexiglas windscreen, low head fairing.
Condition
The paint is very good with only a few filled chips near the rear wheel arch air intakes, the underbody and mechanicals are excellent. The interior shows minimal wear. A well presented and historic Aston Martin with a new nose after a 1963 Silverstone crash but otherwise original. The first DBR1 produced, driven by Stirling Moss, Roy Salvadori, Jack Brabham, and Carroll Shelby. Dnf at Le Mans 1958, winner of the 1959 Nurburgring 1,000 km driven by Stirling Moss and Jack Fairman. Comes with two engines, a modern one for historic racing and the original as installed at Feltham. Known history from new and thoroughly documented.
Market commentary
A car of undoubted performance and history as well as subtle beauty, known history from new with some of the finest drivers of the era and a race winner at the Nurburgring in Aston''s championship year. This is record for a British car at auction, besting last year''s RM Sotheby''s Le Mans winning D-type (s/n XKD 501) by a few dollars [well, $770,000, but that''s only 3.5% in this rarified atmosphere] and much more rare, there being only five DBR1s. This result is appropriate, but it could have brought more without piercing the bounds of reason.