More than 40 years after Roy Salvadori’s famous win in the 1963 Coppa Inter-Europa at Monza—David Brown’s final victory in a World Championship event—Aston Martin tasted international success once again in the 2005 Tourist Trophy at Silverstone.

Though its new Prodrive-developed DBR9 model had scored a class win on debut at Sebring two months earlier, an outright victory in the illustrious Tourist Trophy—the meetings at which Aston Martin secured the 1959 World Sportscar Championship—proved particularly apposite.

Over the next three years, Prodrive is understood to have constructed 10 Works and eight privateer cars.

Consecutive Le Mans class wins in 2007 and 2008 further cemented its reputation as one of the all-time great competition GT cars.

Chassis 106 was one of just two DBR9s constructed in 2007, the other being the Works-allocated, class-winning DBR9/10 from the 2007 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Originally purchased by British enthusiast Henry Barczynski, its preparation was initial...