£145k Barn Find Aston Martin DB4! This Shocked Us All!

[@cloudmaker]

I do hope the new owner will let the TV company follow it's progress, no matter what form it takes, I'd love to see and hear it driving. Thank you Derek, informative and interesting as ever.

[@davidanderson7138]

will they put an electric motor in?

[@JohnNaylor-x4x]

That would make a really interesting documentry, lets hope so

[@alistairclyne9362]

Absolutely loved listening to Derek’s knowledge, experience and enthusiasm for this one … what a find! 👍😊

[@NeilSmith-hu4wg]

Worked with my dad as mechanic for years. He now in his 80s . Love when you say its a level car . It brings back memories and so many comments that only some people understand. Priceless

[@bicyclist2]

I can tell that this was a beautiful car when it was new. I'd love to see someone restore it back to original. I hope that it goes back to its original color. Very cool. Thank you.

[@georgegalyer8224]

Absolutely love DB4's prefer them over the 5 and 6

[@petespanel]

Spot on Derek, the best looking dB by far.

[@longjonwhite]

The title kinda blows Derek’s suspenseful intro…

[@bathroomjon1]

Hahaha I hadn’t noticed the title but yeah it does doesn’t it!!

[@1968spikey]

😂😂😂

[@CraigVickery-d5o]

You noticed that as well 😅😊

[@BarryRudge]

If only we had hindsight I remember going to a garage in 1973 where they had. a DB4 for sale at one thousand pounds. I pondered then realised I hade three small children so put my sensible head on and bought a 2 yr old Mk 3 Cortina for £850.

[@thesollys9540]

Not that sensible a head in hindsight then!. LOL

[@1968spikey]

At 5 years old in 1974, i sat in Rod Stewart's old Lamborghini Muira in an exotic 2nd hand car dealer's in Grimsby. I clearly recall seeing 5 9 9 5 on the screen. 😮

[@pd_145]

@barryRudge , we've all been there. The amount of fast Ford's I've owned, sold for a few grand that are now fetching £60k plus 🤯

[@MegaDirtyberty]

@@pd_145 You are not wrong there, I shudder to think what my old 1300 two door MK2 Escort Sport I used to own would fetch these days.

[@kavinskysmith4094]

dont beat yourself up about it, the guys about to spend more than a house to put a 50 year old car right that has a dynamo that only works once a month in it, and the cortina was a far better motor from a practicality standpoint and got you home didn't it? and aston was barely making a car a week at that point, and looked like it was going to go out of business, and then what do you do for spares now if it was a thousand pounds, and you were looking for a second hand car as a fun car with a spare slot in the drive and no expenses,

[@clinton7242]

My dad had David brown old company car db2 reg number VMF 37 he paid £300 for it from a officer in the us army in 1965 we saw the car at Aston Martin showroom a couple of years ago

[@simonnorcliffe5877]

I could listen to Derek all day. His knowledge is just breathtaking 😊

[@AndyPipkin-dj8sy]

he talks the talk to take ur cash

[@2626stephen]

Amazing find. Would be nice and interesting letting the TV crew follow it's long road to recovery 😊

[@simonzero3815]

Better than anything ever relating to cars this series. Bangers and cash. Love it.

[@calleskoga3572]

A series 2 DB 4. The prettiest of the DB 4:s. My father used to own one in the sixties. Cheers from an Aston owner in Sweden.

[@jamesbowler3654]

I was fortunate enough to own one of the last DB4’s when I was a young man in the early seventies for four years, which I sold to buy a DB6 which I regretted! Imagine I was pleased to get £2000! So tonight I will not sleep….Thank you!

[@norfolkronin6307]

Personally? The best looking Aston. Just an absolutely beautiful car.

[@RobertGott-c3f]

Good luck to everyone involved with the car What a find 😮😊 Thanks for the video😮😮😊

[@elizabethjade100]

This will be an incredible restoration project, it would be great to see how it turns out, whoever takes it on.

[@peterriggall8409]

Mind blowing figures. Thanks for the insight as to why. Fascinating thanks Derek.

[@mikeheard4859]

The best looking DB ever built, it should have been the original Bond car so much more attractive than the DB5

[@donanderson]

Derek drooling, we take it you like it Derek, a well put together description.

[@mikevanblommestein5726]

A video of getting it out of the shed would be great to see as well , beautiful motor car

[@alfagtvjan]

Love the 2.8i special Capri behind Derek at the beginning. Just like the one I used to have ❤

[@caymanblack9567]

Mine was similar in 1982.

[@ianmiller865]

by far one of the best tv shows on tele, this is up there with gone fishing with bob and paul, just think if this was on main stream tele on a sunday on bbc2 before the fishing the ratings would be off the chart, it would be like having last of the summer wine followed lovejoy just a lovely relaxing show.

[@FrancisBrown-v8x]

Back in 1951 Pablo Picasso made a statement about collectables . He said many people with the money will buy just because they can but those with the passion will never be able to see ... Today is not about the Piece but more about out bidding another bidder for the investment ...

[@astront917]

Not the only thing dereks been tinkering with..... Naughty boy.

[@kevinharker1840]

he's a bit of a lad 😉😉

[@derekstocker6661]

What a fabulous find! The so lucky owner must be over the moon with this and oh boy what a great film the restoration would make! Would love to see that on such an iconic example of real British engineering! Thanks for this, amazing, and very well explained!

[@allannicolson2607]

Surprised at Derek undervaluing it - it was always going to be in three figures. Not at all surprised at the final result. A friend of mine came to find me two or three years ago to ask my opinion on what a barn find 246 Dino Ferrari might be worth, as the family who'd inherited it didn't know what to do with it. I told him to tell them to get one of the big auction houses down south to come and get it, and sell it for them. Told him no matter how rotten it was it would make at least £100,000, which shocked him. I saw it mentioned in one of the classic car magazines a few weeks later. It went for £110,000 plus commission. DB4s make around the same money in similar condition. I bought one when I was 19 (half a century ago) for a few hundred pounds, selling it 5 years later under parental pressure - mum nagged me about being able to see the top few inches of " that old car" out of the kitchen window. I told her that one day that old car would be worth more than the family house, which she didn't believe. Our old house was on the market for a little under £400,000 earlier this year.... I actually had to study the one Derek was talking about as it's the same Dubonnet Rosso colour mine was. Don't think it is, but not impossible.

[@MrACOUSTICPETE]

I totally agree about the looks of the DB4 . There is something about lines and the proportions which just " look right . " That colour is just spot on as well . I don't think the old guy who owned it was eccentric ,I think he must be an Artist !

[@TR4zest]

Fascinating explanation of the financials.

[@irishrover63]

Sad thing is that money is going to pay for that poor old boys care home fees.

[@Stanley-xq4tt]

Yes that is sad couple of useless care home fees then all gone swallowed up by thieves that run the home .

[@Stanley-xq4tt]

Two three years gone in fees from thieves that run the home

[@jmkfromtheuk]

Just seen you talking about an Austin Allegro, I passed my test in 75 in a green one, with BSM, think their whole fleet of cars was Allegros, I'd learnt to drive in a fiat 124, proper good workhorse, but I had to dumb down to a slug to get my licence, and the Allegro certainly slowed me down. I passed, and went straight to a ford Anglia estate with a cortina 1500 engine in it, and kept scrubbing the back tyres mainly on traffic light starts😂

[@marcushinton772]

We need more videos of Del's knowledge on such cars because he's got the hands on experience. Beautiful car and the number plate made me laugh because of a hamster in The Young Ones 😊

[@georgejohnson1498]

I like the DB4 the best as well, but the values are plum-crazy in my book! I'd rather have a little small-holding for the value of these things! On the other hand this car is going to give people work to do, and a great piece of motoring heritage will survive. I am not usually enthusiastic for barn finds, but this is rather special. Best wishes from George

[@jonathanpardoe8722]

Just when you thought all these priceless cars were accounted for , something like this turns up. ! Although a Jensen man right through , I can appreciate the AM 's and I recall one day years ago I looked at a house and its garage had fallen in on top of a Mercedes 300 seb coupe from 1964 How I wish I had bought both !

[@ianthomas8743]

In the 70s i was asked to change a fan belt on a DB 4 when i looked at it i found a stright 6 with 12 spark plugs Later i found out that it was A GT Zagaro

[@jumpfortyfour9965]

lets hope we get to see it when it gets restored .

[@thesoultwins72]

Another very interesting fact about the DB4 is that it was the actual 'Bond' car used in ''Goldfinger'' and NOT the DB5. [the DB5 was still a few months' away from being launched so the film's producers had to use a DB4 Series 5 'badged up' and slightly modified to look like the DB5].

[@alfharris7459]

Derek, agree with you 100 percent on the DB4 looks. Back in the 1960s my brother and I started a body repair business and one of our regular customers was one Geoffry Cobham (son of Sir Alan Cobham, inventor of flight re-fuelling and owner of Cobham flying circus). Geoffry owned a beautiful DB4 Convertible which we had done small cosmetic repairs to and one day he came into our workshop and said "I'm going to sell the Aston lads, would you be interested?" How much do you want for it we asked, £900 came the answer, sadly we couldn't afford that vast (!) sum at the time and had to refuse. I still have nightmares to this day - I am now 88....

[@peterwallwork4778]

Love it problem is is another car most of us can only dream about❤

[@stuartxxxxx3392]

I consider this to be an education, cheers Derek

[@stevewilson6390]

It would be great if the person who now owns this Aston lets us follow it's transformation.

[@michaeltorpy3366]

Hi Derek greetings from Thailand we had a customer with a dB 4 serviced it a couple of times Ana also did a clutch have to do from inside like a triumph herald was in mid 70s

[@terryhand]

To me the most stylish DB. I can't imagine the cost of the restoration.

[@calsurflance5598]

No doubt it will be beautiful. It may be rough but it’s all there!👍 It needs to be preserved.👌

[@alastairwatson3201]

Was this the one Jonny Smith was first alerted to? Backstory sounds similar; eccentric gent, crumbling ruin of a garage, etc … .

[@Marquisorreallyus]

The DB4 is my all time favourite car. I could afford one, but I’d have to live in it. The other half isn’t so keen.

[@limyrob1383]

In the 80's I was bidding on a similar condition DB5 at an estate sale. I pulled out and it went for £3500 which I thought was ridiculous.........

[@johnburns4017]

Give it to Gary Mavers to renovate. Every part of the progression will be filmed. Also in and around the Liverpool city region, where he is based, there are all the various skills needed to renovate this car.

[@User-wollswoycegawage]

In 5 year's time once restored that £50,000 over value will become a good investment

[@WrightsW5]

I agree with that, I always thought the DB4 was the best, the DB5 not quite so good, and the DB6 way less with that unfortunate rear end. I love the DBS too, one of the best things about watching The Persuaders.

[@Broomehall]

Some people have more money than sense ...... ( If you are buying it to enjoy AND make a profit ) I restored a DB5 and a DB6 many years ago, an absolute fortune then, dread to think what it would be now !

[@WILLIAM1690WALES]

Do you go into the high end of classic cars to make a profit almost certainly not, is the price for this DB 4 over the top that is debatable, but if you get it to A1 condition, it can be worth up to £1 million?

[@awalk5177]

Nobody can give an accurate estimate on rare cars going to auction. Some specialists know the market for a particular car, and the rarity is a factor. Those that specialise in a particular model know the values, but it is almost impossible to know the market for all models of car. I have seen some cars sell very cheap at auction and there are only 10 left of that model. Eventually the market wakes up and drives the prices up. There are still bargains overlooked at auction.

[@RazSux]

The burning question - what happened to the TR7!

[@robbell4339]

I was thinking exactly the same all the way through the piece! 👍

[@chiswolfenden2400]

Respectfully I don’t care about the Aston Martin i care about the 2.8 injection Capri because I have had many capris in my young adult years. The last one I had was a Black 2.8 IS B69BWO. I would love to know where she is. Because she was used by myself and my late wife as our private wedding car. And I still remember a guy who said that is stunning. I said what the wife i have just married or the car . This guy smiled and said congratulations to you both ❤

[@AlexandraWoodGSY]

This will be a stunning car once fully restored.😎

[@macman6107]

My mate has 2 of these sitting on shelves in his workshop in pieces. Always said it's for his retirement.

[@356restoration]

He obviously bought it because he likes the cars, which in my books is what it’s all about, financially I can’t see it stacking up ! But if you like it and get enjoyment out of it then that’s got to be worth a lot and taking these cars back to being owned by enthusiasts rather than investors. 😄

[@chiefrocka8604]

Blokes like you will never understand You can hide money in that and if you do get it restored cheaper than a regular Aston punter or do it yourself you’re making money whist hiding it and paying zero tax on anything you make

[@paulengland2826]

I bought a 1961 DB4 for a £1000 in 1970 , then a DB5 in 1972 , then a DB6 in early 73 . Marriage children etc in 1975 Had I kept them

[@gloomyvale3671]

My favourite will always the DB5

[@knoxyish]

the db4 best looking of the lot excepting the zagato this was touring of milan at there best ! hoping we get to see this car when its restored .

[@PeterPhosphate]

It’s just a bit of metal at the end of the day and you can be cleaver and talk up its value but that won’t work on the level headed who will just walk away.

[@SuperMauricem]

Would love to see this fully restored and how 300k plus is spent..

[@kavinskysmith4094]

I gotta be honest with the price, I would have told him 20 grand too, just given you'll spend 120 fixing it up if the metal work below on the lower half is gone and the engine, trans and everything else needs to be fixed up from the ground up, but I wont be sad if I'm wrong and its just the laquer that's bubbled and everything else is fine, as it looks like the red is a respray, and its really green like maybe the paintjob this thing got given, is just like that Lincon Contental Mark I think III from the cold war motors channel, where he just found layers and layers of paint when they put it on the chassis machine and were fixing it as what they would do is just respray it once a year as nobody cared, and it actually preserved it well enough that it was actually intact below all that and if some idiot wants to zagato it, tell him to zee gato the F outta here, as theirs nothing wrong with its bodystyle, rebody something else, as you dont rebody an aston, go buy a pinto and tell them to do something with that instead as its just like a movie, dont remake a good movie, remake a bad, and do it right this time, also the DB4 was made before things were getting bad for aston, so it should be a right good runner although change the dynamo for an alternator, as I dont know what it was that you guys were smoking in the 50's that you thought a car with a dynamo was a good idea as its what left all of them stranded when they came to the US, and gave rise to the old Lucas Prince of Darkness thing as it only works when its moving in traffic and also not having a synchro for first for most british motors, something most jags didnt have until 1965 and 69 respectively, and having the cooling fans only work when the motor is moving, like it probably worked well in 1945 when it was cool out and nobody was around but by 51 that should have gone the way of the dodo, as no wonder you guys really liked our stuff and put it in cars like the Jensen CV8, with its mopar 360 under the hood the thing just turned on and worked with a single four barrel carb that was easy to tune with none of that faff

[@bigbob7062]

Many years ago a friend of mine bought a 1952 DB2 for £500 seven years later it was fully restored, he used it for a year or two and traded it in for a new ugly Alfa Romeo saloon which he had for years till it rusted away, DB2 is now still running and in a private collection. I wonder what it's worth now.

[@Stanley-xq4tt]

Great investment and end up abroad for sure

[@donrico5122]

great car indeed, but for the cost you could fill 3 barns with rarer awesome vintage cars, that are not as well known. Its nuts!

[@paulsnook5408]

The thing is it’s now gained massive providence as being televised for sale and when it’s finished

[@life_on_cars]

Brave project

[@imSatnav]

Not really. It will likely get shipped off to a specialist.

[@stewartw.9151]

The DB4 to my eyes is the best body shape - far nicer than the DB5 and 6 which are spoiled by the heavy-set rear end which looks clumsy.

[@ChristianRThomas]

I'd love to know the history of that car as we had one, in pretty poor condition, sitting outside our flat in Battersea (Salcott Road, in case it becomes relevant) in the same colour, in the mid '80s. From memory, and I may be wrong here, it was worth around £5,000 back then; so somewhere around the price of a not quite new Golf GTi of the time. I certainly remember it looked fairly in reach of many people (though not me, then) and I thought it was a stylish choice, though a shame that it was unrestored, with the paintwork having gone matt and cloudy. It was running and used regularly, or seemed to be, though I don't think I ever saw it moving. I do also remember thinking it was very undervalued for what it was, though the classic car market was very strange in that period. Then, or maybe a few years later, if you paid £11,000 for an Espada you'd be thought to have paid a very full price.

[@chrisjpotter]

Having restored two Aston wrecks I reckon it will struggle to wash its face when restored.

[@davidgilmour5555]

I’d love to see the car when it’s restored…is it possible?

[@garyfoster]

100%agree

[@VH-gw3qi]

Fantastic ! Thanks for sharing 👍🇦🇺

[@adrianrowden8266]

Owner in a home, but 'Executor' on the phone to Derek...

[@69spook]

Working ahead of the curve 😂

[@rolphbluesky8537]

what great project i like to restore that ,just done a DB2

[@KevinMorrison-xj2bt]

I love Aston Martin's like this, although I think they are all way overpriced and not practical classic's for daily use. Would you leave it in a Tesco car park ? So many are for sale at ridiculous prices, and are just for investments really.

[@thatswhatusdovesdo]

Its a tru gem But wada i know i drive a ram 1500 I got dreams 2 lol Incredible find

[@alastairwinner]

Deep deep pockets required for this one.... but will be worth it for sure. DB4 GT would be even better....

[@zippy5131]

It's the lines, just stunning. They knew how to design cars then. Or as a friend of mine says 'Four wheel porn'.

[@dfiglide]

Here`s my 2bobs worth. Get it road worthy then leave it alone, it`s only original once!! That patina tells of a life well lived. See Jay Lenos Merc 300 SLR barn find.

[@garychilds1130]

In 1975 I could of brought one for 200 pound because the heat gaskets was gone and it was on the road not tax it did run and drive

[@niallcook3957]

Lovely colour

[@johnmoulton9728]

Very interesting thanks

[@garypoulton7311]

Bargain at 145k, Aston will restore for 300k, and 450k for an Aston works restored DB4 is about par. Bought mine for 5k many moons ago...

[@iainmac6136]

I had a David Brown 1968, 770, 36hp convertible.

[@peterrowlands6406]

According to the dictionary a "barn" is a building for storing grain and animal feed on a farm.

[@Simont6.0]

Aston Martin would charge about £400,000 to restore one... And I hope they don't paint it bloody silver birch!!

[@mikemcandrew9585]

Himm.. Derek..nice back end....

[@caroltaylor4684]

And how much did it go for then!

[@CrustyRestorations]

Stunning car 👍

[@richardcooke7621]

U describe every car you ever sell as "level!" Let alone this one

[@SilasChapman]

What does that even mean, of course it’s level if the suspension hasn’t collapsed and the tyres are up, which they weren’t when he first saw this so no it wasn’t level wtf is he on about

[@peterbrooke8103]

Worth that all day long full restored its £500k

[@MichaelEnright-gk6yc]

What is the truck utility the one with no bonnet can someone tell me it looks like a Bedford.

[@Watsupwiya]

That CAPRI looks nicer, had 4 of those !!!

[@andrewstyles-ward8256]

I hope Tom hartley would buy it as his team know some mint aston martin resto place that be up at 650k when done and he would sell it

[@lips5913]

As soon as I saw the DB4 appear I could immediately imagine it reborn as a Zagato bodied restoration. It will be beautiful and you'll think it's cheap at £1.5M in 3 years time!

[@anthonyfearn5281]

You could just go to Nutley sports and prestige and buy a minter for £349000

[@nickjervis8123]

I think £14000.00 is cheap. I wish id had the chance to buy it. For me cars like this is not about monetary value

[@AntonyRichards-jx8vr]

50 DB4s left?