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Aston Martin DB3 (1951-1953)

... one of only 10 built ...

Aston Martin´s first sports-racer

designer: professor Robert Eberan von Eberhorst

Coys of Kensington, London, April 2000

Competition car, first raced at Dundrod 1951, 10 made between September 1951 and May 1953

Engine: 6-cyl, 2580 cc, 133 bhp at 5500 rpm, later 2922 cc, 147 bhp at 5000 rpm

DB 3/6 Robert "Bob" Dickson 1953 as FHH 534 and raced in a number of hill climbs and races,

including the British Empire Trophy (12th), the sports car race at the British Grand Prix meeting (retired)

and the Tourist Trophy (6th, co-driver Desmond Titterington).

1954 fitted with a gull-wing body and a Jaguar C-type engine, raced by R.H.Dennis at Goodwood in 1955.

In 1989 it was sold at auction, less engine and body, for L 180,000.