1962 Aston Martin DB4 Series II Sports Saloon
- Engine
- 3.7L DOHC inline-six, twin SU carburetors, 240 bhp at 5,500 rpm
- Colour
- Black over fawn
Chassis DB4/589/L is a left-hand-drive 1962 Aston Martin DB4 Series II Sports Saloon with coachwork by Touring, delivered new through a California dealership in October 1961. Finished in Black over Fawn Connolly hide with chromed wheels and whitewall tyres, it retains its original matching-numbers engine. The car spent approximately four decades in California before moving east around 2003, and has been shown at the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance.
Ownership
- 2022-01-27Auction saleSold US$340,000
- 1961-10-30 →Factory deliveryGeorge Alpogijnes (also known as George Gjines)full documentation
Los Angeles resident who took delivery via Charles Hornburg's California dealership. Covered nearly 10,000 miles in the first year of ownership.
- 2003 →Acquisition unknownPenultimate owner (identity unspecified)partial documentation
First owner to relocate the car away from California since new. Exhibited the DB4 at the Amelia Island Concours and had the car mechanically serviced around 2009 prior to sale.
- 2010 →Private saleCurrent vendorpartial documentation
Has kept the car in static storage since acquisition; recommissioning advised before active driving.
- Date unknownAcquisition unknownBill Lynchpartial documentation
Long-term California collector who kept the car for much of its first roughly 40 years in the state. A full bare-metal repaint and interior retrim in original colors was carried out around 2000 during this period.
Competition
- —Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance
Car was exhibited by the penultimate owner; no result or specific year recorded in the source.
Maintenance & restoration
- 2000Restoration
Comprehensive restoration including a bare-metal repaint and full interior retrim, both carried out in the original colour scheme.
Documentation relating to this work is no longer present with the car.
- 2009Service
Mechanical servicing carried out prior to the car's acquisition by its most recent owner.
Records for this service are reportedly no longer with the car.
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