DB5 Convertible makes £1.4 million
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Is there any upper limit?
Is there any logic as it was not a car Bond drove?
Is there any upper limit?
Is there any logic as it was not a car Bond drove?
Maybe William and Kate going down the Mall in Prince Charles 69 DB6 Volante helped Volante values. I particularly liked the DB4 Volante which Michael Caine drove before it was tragically pushed off an Alpine road in the original Italian Job (I was always worried that they might have destroyed a real car for the scene, but presumably not).
I remember the journalists at the time having a very bad experience of the car. I had an uncle who obviously had a good eye for future classics - at one stage he had a 250 SWB, then he replaced it with a DB5 Volante!
I remember the journalists at the time having a very bad experience of the car. I had an uncle who obviously had a good eye for future classics - at one stage he had a 250 SWB, then he replaced it with a DB5 Volante!
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For the scene where it actually goes down the cliff, it was replaced by a Lancia Appia cab. because the director was'nt satisfied by the crash. You can see it because the Lancia has a bonnet/hood that goes open on the windscreen side, wheter the Aston has it's hinges on the front side.
From another post
Although it is commonly believed that this car was destroyed during filming, it still exists and currently belongs to an AMOC member. Rather than destroy an expensive Aston, a Lancia mocked up to look like its British counterpart was pushed over the edge for the final take. In the 2003 remake with the same title, the character Handsome Rob, played by Jason Statham, ends up driving an Aston Martin, but a DB7 Volante, not the Vanquish that he wanted. In the 2002 film "The Italian Job" features a Vanquish, owned by the crook.
This particular car is worth a little more than most as its an original LHD (they usually go for 10-15% premium over a RHD due to rarity) but even so the price is quite a full one - I guess there must have been 2 people in the room that really wanted it.
Compared with the DB5 the DB4 convertible looked relatively good value - and I might be alone in this, but I think both the DB4 and DB6 look better in convertible/volante form, than the DB5
Compared with the DB5 the DB4 convertible looked relatively good value - and I might be alone in this, but I think both the DB4 and DB6 look better in convertible/volante form, than the DB5
Edited by downr on Tuesday 10th February 21:00
RichB said:
Incidentally, for the sake of correctness, the DB4 and DB5 were known as convertibles. The name Volante only came into use with the DB6.
Are ýou sure? I was a child at the time, but when my uncle got the DB5, new, before the 6 came out, I am pretty sure it was called a Volante. The name Volante was introduced in 1965 on the "short chassis", of which 37 cars were made, neither badged a DB5 nor a DB6. But an interim between the two, based on spare DB5 chassis. So you're both right in a way. If you want chapter and verse I'll get my pipe and slippers and quote from the Register...
DB4DM said:
The name Volante was introduced in 1965 on the "short chassis", of which 37 cars were made, neither badged a DB5 nor a DB6. But an interim between the two, based on spare DB5 chassis. So you're both right in a way. If you want chapter and verse I'll get my pipe and slippers and quote from the Register...
Like you David, it was Tim Cottingham’s (the AMOC's model registrar) excellent web site I was using as a reference and according to him the DB4 & DB5 should never be called a Volante. 
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RichB said:
ike you David, it was Tim Cottingham’s (the AMOC's model registrar) excellent web site I was using as a reference and according to him the DB4 & DB5 should never be called a Volante.
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Indeed - the previous registrar even proposed a punishment to people who made such a mistake. I'm now prohibited from doing this as times have changed apparently.the ultimate knowledge base for everything Aston Martin
Vanin said:
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Indeed - the previous registrar even proposed a punishment to people who made such a mistake. I'm now prohibited from doing this as times have changed apparently.
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