They should leave the past to the past, or in a museum, just as Jesus raised Lazarus Aston Martin is raising the dead and buried of their own making. But this is no decayed corpse it is the beautiful DB4 GT Zagato. Built to race against the might of Ferrari in the 1960’s, the DB4 GT Zagato was evolved for motor racing, just 19 were built.

A team of specialists at Aston Martin Works have been busy resurrecting the 2019 DB4 GT Zagato Continuations to be meticulously crafted. The 21st Century examples will Stay true to those original Zagato-bodied DB4 GTs produced by Aston Martin and Zagato in the 1960’s.

Originally built as an evolution of the short-chassis DB4 GT, the race built version follows the same recipe, thin-gauge aluminium body panels dressing a lightweight tubular frame in a chassis optimised for track work.

Each of the 19 examples is being built at Aston Martin Works to the highest possible quality using traditional coachbuilding techniques, modern engineering solutions and performance enhancements.

The hand-finished body panels of the new cars, each worked from flat sheets of 1.2 mm thick aluminium, have taken hundreds of hours of craftsmanship to shape. Handcrafted techniques were used that were once commonplace almost 60 years ago.

But this 21st-century recreation won’t come cheap, pricing starts from £6 million GBP.

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