I normally don’t write posts that concern upcoming sales. Magazines, auction houses and other blogs do that well enough.

However when something as rare as an Aston Martin DB4 GT – left hand drive (LHD) comes up, we feel obliged to report it.

An Aston Martin from the David Brown Era is already something special and uncommon, but a DB4 GT is ultra rare. How rare?

Only 75 were made (of the 75 made, only 30 were LHD). A DB4 GT makes a DB5 look like a Volkswagen beetle. The DB4 GT is even more rare than a Ferrari 250 SWB – more than 100 of those exist.

Aston Martin introduced the DB4 GT as an answer to the very successful cars that Ferrari was producing at the time, like the Iconic 250 TDF (Tour de France). Meant as a dual-purpose car, a road car but also a track car, the DB4 GT was the top of the line car customers could order from the DB4 series.

While normal DB4 cars were mostly steel cars, the GT version was an all alloy car. Instead of the standard two or three SU carburetors came triple Weber carbs, which boosted bhp from 240 on the standard DB4s to over 300 for the GT version. The car was powered by a 3.7L dual overhead camshaft alloy engine and carried a synchronized 4-speed gearbox. Because of the alloy chassis the car was nearly 100kg lighter than normal DB4.

Other differences to normal DB4s included two outside fuel caps and a slighter shorter wheelbase, reduced by 13cm. It is no wonder that these cars are so sought after today. When a rare DB4 is not good enough, and a connoisseur (in the past it was often bankers- with their high paid bonuses) wanted something lighter, faster and more powerful and rare, the DB4 GT was the obvious answer!

What is the car worth today?

Well last year in 2012 at Monterey, someone paid $2m including commission. Given the strength of the classic car market today, we expect the car to fetch more than the $2m paid last year. 

(Main picture credit: RM Auctions. Main picture is a DB4 GT that was sold a few years ago by RM Auction)