Very rare, 1 of only 70.

One of the last six-cylinder DBS Astons ever registered.

After Sir David Brown's departure, DBS production continued under new owners Company Developments, the car being re-styled with a two-headlamp front end but mechanically remaining much as before.

The 4-litre, six-cylinder model was re-named ‘Vantage’, a departure from accepted practice, as the term had hitherto been used to denote the high-performance engine option.

To further confuse matters, all but two Vantages (‘6067’ and ‘6068’) had the 'SVC' Vantage high-performance engine.

A mere 70 of these six-cylinder Vantages were produced between May 1972 and July 1973.

This right-hand drive example is one of these rare cars and was fitted from new with the Borg-Warner automatic transmission option.

First owned by Richard Ellis of Cornhill, London EC3 and registered ‘TGO 309M’, the car comes with a substantial history file containing copies of all previous owner registration documents, a number of older...