Most Aston Martins of a sure period would deserve a spot within the All-Time Gallery of Beautiful Vehicles. A 1954 Aston Martin DB2/4 Coupe designed by Nuccio Bertone — finest recognized, merely, as Bertone — could be amongst them.
This particular coupe, with its smooth, understated form, luscious metallic blue shade, and meticulous restoration, is scheduled to go to public sale this Friday, December 8, at RM Sotheby’s in New York, and is predicted to draw bids of between $1.2 million and $1.6 million.
The automobile’s historical past dates again to the early Nineteen Fifties, when Midwestern businessman Stanley Arnolt started a relationship with the Italian coachbuilder, one which finally led to the creation of seven Aston Martins dressed by Bertone underneath Arnolt’s auspices. The automobile at public sale was the one coupe.
Historians declare that the automobile’s dramatic creases and its distinctive wraparound rear window had been each signature touches of Bertone’s designer Franco Scaglione. The coupe apparently was meant to have been the primary in a small run of vehicles, however by the point it appeared, Aston Martin had refused to produce any extra chassis to Bertone. It was proven, nicely after its completion, at each the 1957 and 1958 Turin Motor Reveals, completed in white after which in blue. The DB2/4 later made its technique to the USA in 1976, the place it had a sequence of homeowners and wound up within the Blackhawk Assortment.
Within the Eighties it underwent a restoration and was proven in 1987 at Pebble Seashore. Yet one more rework of the automobile, at a value of greater than $800,000, was accomplished for the Pebble Seashore Concours d’Magnificence in 2023 the place it was honored with First in Class.
The restored automobile retains its unique numbers-matching drivetrain, per its construct documentation, with its Aston Martin 2.9-liter inline-six engine block underneath the hood. In some unspecified time in the future within the automobile’s historical past, a rebuild included revised valves and camshafts to extend the output.
