• One of only four Le Mans 'Team Car' replicas • Unique coachwork • In-period Brooklands race history • First purchased by the vendor's father in 1955 • Mechanically maintained but cosmetically un-restored Manufactured by Robert Bamford and Lionel Martin, the first Aston-Martins (the hyphen is correct for the period) rapidly established a reputation for high performance and sporting prowess in the immediate post-WWI years.

Unfortunately, the management's concentration on motor sport, while accruing invaluable publicity, distracted it from the business of manufacturing cars for sale, the result being just 50-or-so sold by 1925 when the company underwent the first of what would be many changes of ownership.

The foundations were laid for the commencement of proper series production with the formation of Aston Martin Motors Ltd in 1926 under the stewardship of Augustus 'Bert' Bertelli and William Renwick.

Built at the firm's new Feltham works, the first 'new generation' Aston Martins we...