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| Aston Martin DB5 Shooting Brake by Harold Radford (1965 - 1967) |
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David Brown found that the standard DB5 was very much to his liking, but was a bit of a squeeze when he tried to carry his hunting gear and dogs. The dogs also had a tendency to chew the leather seats. No problem, just ask the factory to create a shooting brake for his personal use. The problem then was that other customers, on seeing David Browns unique Aston Martin, wanted one too. At that time, the factory was far too busy just making the standard cars, so David Brown made an arrangement with the coachbuilding firm of Harold Radford to make further shooting brakes to meet the demand. |
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cars from the Newport Pagnell Factory, the conversion to shooting brakes would have been
exceedingly expensive. And despite all the structural modifications to lengthen the roof and
add a lifting tailgate, the mechanicals remained firmly as standard which must have made it
the fastest load carrier of it's day. The shooting brakes do suffer from a
loss of rigidity as much of the Superlegerra body frames at rear had to be
cut away. In addition to David Browns personal car, a further twelve
examples were built for customers
These particular cars have Triumph rear lights (also used on the DB6) although some cars also had the DB5 type. The Dubonnet Rosso example was photographed whilst competing in the AMOC Spring concours at Stonor Park, May 2000. The blue example was photographed the following year's Spring concours at Waddesdon Manor. |
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