£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! 👍😊

[@petespanel]

Spot on Derek, the best looking dB by far.

[@simonnorcliffe5877]

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

[@AndyPipkin-dj8sy]

he talks the talk to take ur cash

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@2626stephen]

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

[@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,

[@georgegalyer8224]

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

[@RobertGott-c3f]

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

[@donanderson]

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

[@elizabethjade100]

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

[@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!

[@peterriggall8409]

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

[@simantroo]

The colour is known as Dubonnet metallic, usually accompanied by a light grey / fawn leather interior. So it looks like this spec is all original from new. Fantastic find and a great little video by Derek 👏

[@mikevanblommestein5726]

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

[@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

[@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

[@TR4zest]

Fascinating explanation of the financials.

[@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!

[@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....

[@jamesparsons-ji4qy]

i am sure they used a DB4 in Dr No either way its my dream car then the DB5

[@railmaster.7752]

The Goldfinger DB5 BMT216A was in fact the factory DB5 prorotype so it was a DB5 even if it was a modified DB4. But look at the rear lights of the original Corgi Toys DB5 Bond car, that one are a DB4 complete with the same Alvis TD21 rear lights as this car. Useless kowledge....😅

[@jamesparsons-ji4qy]

@@railmaster.7752 my mum bought me the corgi with the ejecter seat that flew out 1976 for my xmas happy child hood

[@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.

[@Jermaine-d9f]

Been working on this man house, such a lovely car when finished!!!

[@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 😅😊

[@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 😊

[@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😂

[@gkh50]

car that owes you 50k but it is in perfect running order, no issues for fixing.. is worth it

[@railmaster.7752]

What are the "handles" on top of the back rests?

[@astront917]

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

[@kevinharker1840]

he's a bit of a lad 😉😉

[@philrothwell6858]

I would love to see this vehicle being restored , could do a series on it !!

[@stephencarter2084]

How we get to the action on the show and all so to see the action for the Moggy van EV too 🙏🙏🙏

[@simonzero3815]

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

[@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.

[@norfolkronin6307]

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

[@stuartxxxxx3392]

I consider this to be an education, cheers Derek

[@alastairwatson3201]

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

[@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 !

[@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

[@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.

[@richardstokes6827]

Greatstuff oooh love to own the car . Fab show too . 😂

[@jumpfortyfour9965]

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

[@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 !

[@iainmac6136]

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

[@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 ...

[@calsurflance5598]

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

[@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 .

[@SuperMauricem]

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

[@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.........

[@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.

[@paulsnook5408]

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

[@AlexandraWoodGSY]

This will be a stunning car once fully restored.😎

[@mikeheard4859]

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

[@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.

[@terryhand]

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

[@antdb4]

My late father had a db4 in the 70s, he uses it to take me to primary school and to work and back😮i am 54 and still remember the red leather interior and that engine, wow! He tried to sell it but nobody wanted them back then as they were gas guzzlers...he sold it to me Uncle Alan for £700😢and Alan wrapped it a few months later, pissed!! Oh well nevermind...i said in his Eulogy @ least he owned one 😂

[@davidgilmour5555]

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

[@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.

[@VH-gw3qi]

Fantastic ! Thanks for sharing 👍🇦🇺

[@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.

[@chrisjpotter]

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

[@macman6107]

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

[@MichaelEnright-gk6yc]

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

[@peterwallwork4778]

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

[@johnrundle2902]

I had a 1955 Mercedes-benz 300 SLR uhlenhaut coupe. It was rusty so I sent it to the crusher 🤪🤪🤪😜😜😜

[@Stanley-xq4tt]

Great investment and end up abroad for sure

[@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?

[@stevewilson6390]

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

[@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 !

[@RazSux]

The burning question - what happened to the TR7!

[@robbell4339]

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

[@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!

[@thatswhatusdovesdo]

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

[@rolphbluesky8537]

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

[@jeremyusher5194]

Mine sold for 75k in pieces at Mercedes world some years ago and was converted to zagarto then resold for well under the value at 500k very odd

[@niallcook3957]

Lovely colour

[@gloomyvale3671]

My favourite will always the DB5

[@VickersDoorter]

I'm more interested in that lovely-looking Capri.

[@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.

[@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

[@caroltaylor4684]

And how much did it go for then!

[@BrianSimpson-i6o]

Tv will pay a lot of money to film the process of this great car

[@Gennettor-nc8kx]

What I REALLY would like to see is how they extracted it from that collapsed garage.....

[@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

[@johnmoulton9728]

Very interesting thanks

[@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.

[@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.

[@AntonyRichards-jx8vr]

50 DB4s left?

[@mikemcandrew9585]

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

[@CrustyRestorations]

Stunning car 👍

[@garyfoster]

100%agree

[@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

[@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 ❤

[@anthonycollin8303]

I love seeing a restoration completely covered but unfortunately half the time the car itself and the restoration process is a distant second or third after the presenter, lifestyle tv I suppose. Thank you for the video.

[@zippy5131]

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

[@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.

[@User-wollswoycegawage]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@Kirk-d7v]

Joseph Prince (grace)?

[@Cossieplumber]

I’m more interested in what looks like a tipper p100 than that Aston.