ASTON MARTIN DB5 Shooting Brake For sale
One of the only 12 iconic DB5 Shooting Brake built
Long term family ownership history
Much cherished car presented in outstanding condition
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Description
This amazing DB5 Shooting Brake is chassis 1411/R, with engine number 400/1384. Further to its building sheet, it was ordered by Wilsons Builders of Northampton in Snow Shadow Grey, Charcoal trimming and with the ZF gearbox. It was first registered in the UK on February 4th 1964 and is one of only 8 RHD examples later modified in Shooting Brake by Radford. Finished in "Goodwood Green" it is now a "one off" in the series of DB5/DB6 shooting brakes.
Period documentation also shows that the car was serviced at the factory until February 1967 with 27849 miles on the clock.
The car is believed to have been owned for many years by the Dr Power family of Midhurst (only 17 miles from the Goodwood circuit) until 2008. Vintage cars are rarely documented photographically but our Aston comes with a nice photograph taken in the late 1960s/early 1970s showing its registration " TNH 36 " which it retains to this day.
The next owner was a prominent Aston Martin collector and DB4 Zagato owner in 2008. 1411/R has undergone an ancient but high quality restoration, its immaculate condition and flawless running show all the care it has received. It has clearly been much cherished throughout its life. Its impeccable service history dates back to the 1990s with leading Aston Martin specialist RS Williams.
The Aston Martin Shooting Brakes created a new universe in the automotive world, the one of the high performance utility vehicles. Without abandoning its lust for speed, it created a new horizon for freedom, weekends and leisure. This stunning DB5 example is a rare opportunity to acquire not only a different Aston Martin, but the most iconic and desirable of them all.
Model history
David Brown found that whilst the DB5 was very much to his liking, but was a bit of a squeeze when he tried to carry all his polo equipment, hunting gear and dogs.
At that time, the factory was way too busy just making the regular DB5, so David Brown made an arrangement with the coachbuilding firm of Harold Radford (Coachbuilders) Ltd. to make further shooting brakes to meet the demand. Radford were already experienced in building the Bentley S2 Countryman. The conversion was extensive and affected the whole car from the windscreen backwards. One problem with the conversion was that the tubular structure of the roof was cut away and the new extended roof was supported by steel fabrications, preserving the Superleggera system.
The interior was cleverly designed to hold as much as stuff as possible. With the rear seat folded down, the car offered an uninterrupted payload platform of 1.75 meters by 1.05 meters and a volume of 1.1 cubic meters.
As the mechanical and chassis specification of the car remained the same, the car was still claimed to reach 150 mph and was marketed with the tag-line ‘The world’s fastest dual-purpose vehicle’.
As each shooting brake began life as a completely finished saloon, priced at £4,412, the price of a finished shooting brake was boosted by £2,000 when ordered through AML. In some cases, customers also sent pre-registered cars to Radford for conversion too.
Only 12 were built (8 RHD and 4 LHD), all of which are believed to survive, making them the rarest DB5 variant. Following on from the DB5 Shooting Brake, Radford went on to build another six similar cars based on the DB6.