Advantage Aston

Surprise! I owned the Aston Martin DB2 on March’s cover in around 1956. I bought it from one Jeremy Belleville for £1100; I think he’d got it from Rob Walker, because I collected it from Pippbrook Garage in Dorking where it was being serviced. Until I read your story, I had no idea why it was so quick.

I then got another DB2, in pale green metallic. I was then flying with BOAC after nine years in the Navy, and was a very junior pilot. BOAC admin was in huts south of the Bath road and we would park our cars on the grass and go on trips of one or two weeks. No parking charges and no damage. I returned from one trip with Captain Terry Bulloch, DSO and Bar, DFC and Bar, a great man who had sunk five U-boats. I invited him to drive the Aston and he sped off down the A4, with a big smile on his return.

Next I had a DB2/4 Mk1, EEE 340, then in c1964 I had a 1958 DB MKIII saloon, with overdrive and front discs. I bought it from a dentist in Leigh-on-sea and sold it on through The Chequered Flag for £700, then bought a house.

All of the subsequent cars went okay, but none of them had the performance of TKR 51.

Nick Cook

Isle of Man