Unloved Astons
Remember when Aston Martin DBSs were the ‘unloved Aston’, examples of which could regularly be found for £10,000 or even less? Sometimes they were subjected to odd engine swaps once their owners could no longer justify stumping up the bills to repair the Aston’s exotic straight-six or V8, and all the while their steel frames often corroded beneath superficially sleek aluminium bodywork caked in its third overly-thick respray.
Those days are over, and like all ‘DB’ cars with Bond-association cool behind it, good surviving DBSs are en route to the Aston-collecting big league. It’s Bonhams’ Philip Kantor’s tip for a rise in value in 2016 – one of 30 cars across all price brackets nominated as great buys by our panel of five experts in Classic Cars’ October 2016 issue, out now.
Phil Bell
Editor, Classic Cars magazine