The optional ‘DBR1 specification’ is based mostly on bespoke colour and trim, applying Aston Martin’s Racing Green paint, Clubsport White roundels, a satin silver grille and diamond cut wheels.

If you're well-off your interest might have been piqued a few weeks ago by Evanta's 1:1 scale model of the Le Mans-winning Aston Martin DBR1/2. The AirFix-like art work, 20.8 feet long ...

It's a model of the Aston Martin DBR1/2 that Carroll Shelby and Roy Salvadori drove to a Le Mans win in 1959. The awesomeness: it is a 1:1 scale model on a parts tree. Yes, as in a life-sized ...

Aston Martin also had a serious racing pedigree. This was headlined by a 1-2 finish in the 1959 24 Hours of Le Mans, which came courtesy of the stunning DBR1 race car. This sporting notoriety ...

Equally importantly, No2 is the hero that sealed the 1959 world championship for Aston Martin at a dramatic Goodwood Tourist Trophy. A fire in the pits put the leading DBR1/3 of Stirling Moss and ...

As a result, French cars were presented in blue, Italian cars were famously red, Belgian cars were yellow, German cars were silver ... example being the Aston Martin DBR1 that won the 24 Hours ...