30 Most Memorable Sales at Nicholas Mee, Episode 14 features The 1959 Aston Martin DB4
It’s all wrong, but it’s all correct. Famed Aston Martin engine designer Tadek Marek knew what he was doing when he created his own interpretation of how a DB4 should be. An early Series 1 light chassis basis, a 4.0 litre Vantage engine on Weber’s, a 5 speed box, with a DB4 GT nose with a low bonnet scoop and to top it all an electric opening and closing rear quarter window, to let the smoke from his Players Navy Cut exit the cabin. The car was in many orthodox way all wrong, but it definitely was alright…….It was Tadek Marek’s own car and he knew what he was doing.
