Someone Abandoned An Aston Martin DB4 50 Years Ago And Now It's For Sale

Barn finds are awesome, but it's not often that we see old cars being 'discovered' in the open air among wooded farmland. That's exactly what's happened with this rusty DB4, and now it's for sale with a massive price tag!
Someone Abandoned An Aston Martin DB4 50 Years Ago And Now It's For Sale

Forget barn finds; they’re so cliché. We’ve moved on to woodland finds, if this sorry-looking old Aston Martin DB4 is anything to go by.

Somehow this amazing piece of British sports car history has spent the last five decades sitting out in the open air beneath the treetops of woodland in Massachusetts, despite it being parked at the owner’s home since the early 1970s.

But now the auctioneers have put a price of as much as £385,000 on its head – and that’s before it gets the full restoration that it needs.

Someone Abandoned An Aston Martin DB4 50 Years Ago And Now It's For Sale

It was built in 1960, two years after the DB4 was launched, before being shipped to the US where its first owner awaited, but it’s not clear whether that is the same owner who parked it on his property and left it there for decades. It seems that the woodland has actually grown around it, blocking it in.

It has been removed from the wood and put into storage, but its rusty metalwork betrays its sad history. The once leaf-strewn engine bay has been cleaned out, but no proper work has actually been started.

The DB4 had a 3.7-litre straight-six that put out around 240bhp, and it was the first car to manage the 0-100-0mph test in less than 30 seconds.

Someone Abandoned An Aston Martin DB4 50 Years Ago And Now It's For Sale

The Worldwide Auctions sale in Scottsdale, Arizona, is happening just one day before and eight miles from the RM Sothebys auction featuring the last ever Bugatti Veyron Coupé. Looks like some serious money is going to be changing hands in Arizona that week.

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Comments

pissoffftwat

No comment sad face inserted

12/21/2016 - 11:11 |
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Gidges

Wait. Where’s the barn? Or did the barn rust away before the car did?

12/21/2016 - 11:15 |
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CaptainNutSack

I wonder what was going through the owners head the D B 4 he decided to abandon it…?

12/21/2016 - 11:17 |
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“Dammit Q, the carburettor is on the fritz again”

12/21/2016 - 12:11 |
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Fraser Bissett

Its all I got. Do we have a deal?…

12/21/2016 - 11:18 |
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Anonymous

How the hell it`s not rusted XD any e36 or opel has more rust than this gem

12/21/2016 - 11:25 |
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Poderra Automotive

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

I was about to say quality, but, although Aston Martin is my favourite brand, that can’t be the reason….

12/21/2016 - 11:30 |
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Anonymous

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

No salt in the woods, that would be my guess on why it rusted so slowly.

12/21/2016 - 22:55 |
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Anonymous

I wish one day i’ll make a such find … take it and restore it :D

12/21/2016 - 11:36 |
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Anonymous

I’m sorry, but I wouldn’t spend a fiver on this - it’s rotten scrap, end of.

12/21/2016 - 11:38 |
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Roadster / Tail Red

Still not as rusty as Phil or Colin

I’m sorry

12/21/2016 - 11:43 |
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Anonymous

Unbelievably good condition - considering it has spent 50 years outside

12/21/2016 - 11:43 |
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Straight6Unicorn95

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

hmm thats just double of my parents car and that one looks alright.. the problem is it stood 50 years outside without being moved or cleaned so all sorts of stuff managed to fall onto and into it i bet..

12/21/2016 - 23:14 |
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Dinindu Perera

I’ll have a DB4 please. Rusted, not restored.

12/21/2016 - 11:50 |
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Made my day :’D

12/21/2016 - 18:52 |
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