Just minutes ago Bonhams sold this remarkable 1949 Aston Martin DB Team Car at their Goodwood Festival of Speed Sale for £679,100 (CA$ 1,210,353) inc. premium.
Aston Martin gave this prototype chassis number LMA/2/49 and registered it as ‘UMC 65’.
This very car raced the 1949 24 Hours of Le Mans and placed seventh overall behind the winning Ferrari 166MM.
It then went on to race the 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, before being sold to Bill Whitehouse for occasional racing in England.
The car was subsequently bought by Christopher Angell in 1965 and stored with him until 2003.
Through 38 years of continuous ownership the Aston was untouched and this is how it was presentated at Goodwood by Bonhams.
Some of our best customers made the annual pilgrammge via BC Ferries to the The 31st annual Vancouver All British Field Meet.
It was held on Saturday May 21, 2016 at the VanDusen Botanical Garden.
The show was completely full from an exhibiter standpoint with just over 600 cars in 60 classes.
This year special features were Daimler Motors and Land Rover Series II. The later class had the famous Grizzly Toque which painter Robert Bateman used to travel the world.
Victoria talent included Earl Kagna’s Healey 3000, Jeff Cramb’s 1969 TR6, Trevor Parker’s Healey 100, Sean Windrum’s Psychedelic Wolseley Hornet, David Mass’ original 1970 Morgan and Peter Jeffries E-Type 2+2.
The world’s best D-Type is this black example, XKD524, bought by Paul Pfohl in 1956 for $9,925 USD.
Paul raced it at Riverside, Watkins Glen and at the Lake Erie Race in Dunkirk, NY before putting into long term storage in 1967.
It was stored for a remarkable 35 years and stayed with the family until 2003 when it appeared on ebay with the description: This is a rare opportunity to purchase the most unmolested, one family owned D Type in the world and the most unique D Type to be offered since the highly publicized sale of the 1956 LeMans winner in 1999.
A low milage of 6,230 miles from new with all original fit and finishes make this an fantastic and authentic reference car.
We had a great oppurtunity to photograph XKD524 at the 2015 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance and Tour d’Elegance.
