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ASTON MARTIN DB4
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Aston Martin DB4 Competition Model - 309
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29 September 2008
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29 September 2008 |
OK, its a warm-over, a new model that is no more than last year's DB4 with a new paint job and racing numbers - gorgeous though isn't it? I watched the Italian Job on telly last night - how could they do that to one of these? However in the scene where Michael Caine collects his DB4 from storage and retrieves a stash of cash from under the bonnet, the bonnet hinges the other way, back to front. How unusual of Corgi on their very first model with an opening bonnet to get it wrong!
The DB4 remains the best looking Aston ever, bar none. Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond can say what they like - none of the later ones come close to the perfect balance and design of this classic and beautiful motor car.
Shame mine is such a dog, I'll really have to get a decent one of these, Chris Davidson's mint in box example below shows just how rough mine is. It will get cleaned and missing jewels replaced as part of my general re-photo project, but a dog it will remain.
A brief note here on racing numbers. The model was released with number 3 on the door. Mine has a 7, Chris' has a 1. On the box there is a 17, in the advertising materials I've seen it is 1. van Cleemput says that 3 is correct, and any other number is due to shortages of the correct part on the production line.
