While those able to fork out £1.5 million on a DB4 GT Continuation not legal for the road probably have driveways long enough to justify it, the temptation to take one out for a B-road jaunt must be high. It’s why R-Reforged, the Swiss Aston specialist, is offering to convert said cars to road legal status, with a 10-week process that includes getting IVA approval.
It’s not just a case of slapping a pair of number plates on each car, either, because Aston’s Continuation machines lack several features required to enable their use on the public highway. R-Reforged – which you may remember recently produced Ian Callum’s Vanquish 25 – attaches 60 new bits so the cars conform to EU road law, but it’s all said to be fully reversible. Which ought to appease collectors wanting to retain originality.
To satisfy the road regs, the DB4’s headlights are altered, side indicators are added and a retractable rear fog light’s attached to the back. The car receives wing mirrors, E-marked side and rear windows and a new exhaust catalytic converter, so that 4.2-litre straight-six produces its 345hp more cleanly. There’s also a new wiring loom, which enables the addition of more interior gauges, to help with road driving.
The bits that come off the car to enable the changes are, of course, handed over the owner with their vehicle. So nothing’s lost in the process. Only now, with IVA approval, they can drive their Continuation car away legally; and they’ll be the rarest of the rare, because there are only ‘new’ 19 DB4 GTs in the world to begin with. We’re not given a price for the work because it’s said to be specific to each car, not that anyone with a £1.5m car is the sort to be worried about costs.
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