1962 Aston Martin DB4GT Zagato

I can tell you firsthand that there were a number of bidders ready and willing to drop two and a half million bucks on this car

by Steve Serio

That ultimately became the single most important Gran Turismo in the entire history of Aston Martin was first seen at the 1960 London Motor Show. The DB4GT Zagato was designed by 23-year-old Ercole Spada under the watchful eye of Gianni Zagato. It retained a likeness to the original DB4, but with styling that Spada described as looking \"like an animal having its skin tightened from a point on the middle of its back.\" The tried and true methods of the Zagato Carrozzeria made the finished product a much lighter and more spartan automobile than the standard model. Everywhere weight could be saved, it was. Seats were lighter, aluminum replaced steel in sections of the chassis, Perspex was used for the windows (except for the windshield), and fittings were lightened by use of different materials. Chassis were sent from Newport Pagnell to Italy to be bodied and then returned to the U.K. for trimming and final assembly. No two of these cars were exactly the same,...