1969 Aston Martin DBS Vantage Sports Saloon
- Engine
- 3,995cc inline-six, Vantage tune
- Colour
- Silver Birch
A 1969 Aston Martin DBS Vantage Sports Saloon, chassis DBS/5377/L, originally delivered new to Switzerland in Silver Birch with black Connolly leather and a manual gearbox. Fitted with numerous non-standard accessories, it was held by a single Swiss owner from 1970 to 2000 and maintained from 1975 by Aston Martin specialist Roos Engineering, who rated it among the finest examples known. A rare left-hand-drive, European-market car showing under 80,000 kilometres.
Ownership
- 2021-06-20Auction saleSold CHF 190,000 (≈ $209K)
- 1969 → 2000Factory deliverySwiss first ownerfull documentation
Car was registered in Switzerland from new, maintained by Roos Engineering from 1975 onward, and had covered roughly 60,000 km by the time of sale. Described by the specialist as among the finest examples known.
- 2010-07-01 →AuctionCurrent vendorfull documentation
Purchased at a French auction; supporting invoice on file along with a Swiss registration document dated 1998. Car has seen little use since acquisition.
Competition
No competition history extracted from the catalogue.
Maintenance & restoration
- 1975ServiceRoos Engineering
Roos Engineering, an Aston Martin specialist, began maintaining the car from this date and continued doing so up to at least the year 2000, assessing it as among the finest surviving examples.
Ongoing maintenance relationship noted in the 2000 Brooks auction catalogue entry.
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