Indeed. A beautiful vehicle and a great story to match!

I want one of these:

 

http://www.youtube.com/embed/-1w48qPF5hc

Thanks guys. Not my car of course but my Dad deserves all the credit, in his perseverance on first buying it in '69, and in the rebuild.

As I said, I grew up with this car, in fact he's had it longer than he's had me, but there were also other cars of note too. One in particular, a Prince Skyline GT. 2ltr 6cyl with triple webers as standard, pushing 130bhp in the early mid 60's. Not bad. Prince was eventually bought by Nissan where they got the Skyline name from and quite possible the styling cues for the Datsun 1600.

http://www.earlydatsun.com/prince.html

Shaky, that is just a stunning set of wheels! Love it!!  

Thanks guys. Not my car of course but my Dad deserves all the credit, in his perseverance on first buying it in '69, and in the rebuild. As I said, I grew up with this car, in fact he's had it longer than he's had me, but there were also other cars of note too. One in particular, a Prince Skyline GT. 2ltr 6cyl with triple webers as standard, pushing 130bhp in the early mid 60's. Not bad. Prince was eventually bought by Nissan where they got the Skyline name from and quite possible the styling cues for the Datsun 1600. http://www.earlydatsun.com/prince.html

 

I've owned one of those too. The X19. I had a lovely bronze metallic series1. Unfortunately you have got the Aston in most of the pics.   Seriously -- a superb motor vehicle the DB4. Real sports car / grand tourer. Do you know how much it cost new? If it was an early 60's model be towards the end of the production I think...

I grew up with a DB4 as the family transport. It's still in the family now!! See below:

 

I never got to drive one, but a neighbour of ours "borrowed" a DB4 from a mate of his for a week back in the early 1960s.  I got wedged in the back when he and my old man went out to "test' it.    My old man was a pretty good driver but the other bloke was superb.  I still remember that car.  Absolutely beautiful.  One of the great cars of the last "heydey" of British manufacture.  I'm pretty sure that 1963 or '64 was the last year of manufacture.  Sean Connery drove a DB5 in Goldfinger, I think.

Edited April 8, 201312 yr by brumby

Fez, its a '59 Series 2 DB4. Dad bought it secondhand from a dealer somewhere. I think I have this straight, he sold a car for money to add to the extra money he already had plus traded a car in to get the AM. In its day it wouldn't have been cheap, possibly multiple '000s of dollars, similar in pricing to a small house at the time. It is definitely his most cherished material possession, of incomprehensible value. He has told me if he was offered $1 mill for it he wouldn't sell. And he's not one to make flippant statements like that.

 

Brumby, i used to sit on a cushion on what was known by myself and the siblings as 'the hump', the moulding in the flooorpan (and therefore seat) over the diff. So yeah, the back seat doesn't bring back very comfortable memories!

Brumby, i used to sit on a cushion on what was known by myself and the siblings as 'the hump', the moulding in the flooorpan (and therefore seat) over the diff. So yeah, the back seat doesn't bring back very comfortable memories!

 

At least I got to sit on a small mattress in the back of an Austin A30 van...more comfortable...lesser car...significantly lesser car...Rob

Toyota 2000 GT

 

 

Oh yeah baby...

 

....Very nice...One sexy automobile......that "playboy" shot needs to be in the Vintage HiFi thread...  

the little lotus has always caught my eye, cant beleive this one will have a v6 ! 

 

http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/video-lotus-exige-roadster-revealed-2013-05-01

 

though yeah probably never get here, or lutus will go belly up before it does ! 

 

Some found it rather uncomfortable, but still, an endearing advertisement.

Nice one Jake. Great looking vehicle. Very successful car for Ford the Lincoln, and the Continental, looking for a Europea type influence. Hence the name...Luxury brand for Ford. Love those 50-60's car adverts.

 

To offer double the warranty at the time was very exciting and no doubt won a lot of sales... 

the little lotus has always caught my eye, cant beleive this one will have a v6 ! 

 

http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/video-lotus-exige-roadster-revealed-2013-05-01

 

though yeah probably never get here, or lutus will go belly up before it does ! 

 

They are in trouble again?!

 

aston martin speedster concept

is that a mockup - or did they really build that thing?

is that a mockup - or did they really build that thing?

 

its a living breathing thing apparently

 

 

 

http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/aston-martin-cc100-speedster-concept-2013-05-28

 

 

aston martin speedster concept

 

Wouldn't you love to work on a project like this!! wow

its a living breathing thing apparently

 

 

 

http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/aston-martin-cc100-speedster-concept-2013-05-28

 

thats a Marchettino clip

 

im impressed

 

 

this is Valentino Balboni, (retired) test driver for Lamborghini

 

 

(Monza)

Edited June 3, 201312 yr by mello yello II

Those 911 Turbos are really SLOW -- Get outta the way!

Those 911 Turbos are really SLOW -- Get outta the way!

like they were standing still ...

 

thats just awesome to see Balboni grab a Lamborghini by the scruff of the neck and show it who's boss

 

especially @ 0.14 sec

Worth watching at least the first 20 seconds for the headers alone!

 

 

http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1084781_chris-harris-drives-the-2014-porsche-911-gt3-video

Yum

 

Rimac Concept One. One very nice looking electric car.