David Brown Automotive Speedback GT

For you automotive history buffs, the name Sir David Brown should ring a bell. He owned Aston Martin from 1947 to 1972 and created many legends like the DB2, DB2/4, DB2/4 MkII, DB MarkIII, DB4, DB5, DB6 and DBS. And yes those are his initials. But the most famous of them is the DB5 driven by Sean Connery as James Bond in the movie Goldfinger equipped with rocket launchers, machine guns, rear bullet shield, protruding knock off centers, passenger ejection seat, radar and nozzles that squirt slippery oil for chasing cars. The DB5 is the most coveted of Aston Martins of the Sir David Brown era and still is today. Enter David Brown of David Brown Automotive, not related to Aston Martin’s Sir David Brown, who happens to own a classic Aston Martin DB5. Confused? It gets better. Just like most of us he was enamored by a DB5 and enjoyed its classic sports car attributes but as he got used to driving modern GT cars and sports cars he realized that some of the classic feeling was no longer comfortable or fun. He also owned a modern Jaguar XKR and started thinking what if the DB5 could drive like the XKR.