• Desirable short-chassis model • Rare 2/4-seater sports tourer variant • Known ownership history • Restored by Ecurie Bertelli • Present ownership since 2021 • Maintained and improved with no expense spared 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.

Come 1933 and racing was still at the forefront of company policy under the stewardship of new owner Robert Gordon Sutherland, and the 1936 Le Mans race was chosen for the new 2-Litre model's public debut.

Basically the same as the existing 1½-Litre model, two works cars were pro...