Aston Team car: It’s the story that matters

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PreWarCar of the Week: 1930 Aston Martin Team Car LM4

A good story is becoming more and more the key to vintage car ownership. Why else would you want to own a vintage Bentley, in all its bigness and greenness? Because it’s such a joy to drive? Because of that wicked aluminium dashboard looking like the office of a mad scientist? No. The main reason will mostly be because it will always be linked to that illustrious racing old boys network of friends named The Bentley Boys, with their double-barrelled names and backgrounds in the diamond trade, horse racing and aeronautics. Men of steel who went to Scotland in autumn, to Saint Moritz in winter,  to shoot tigers in India in spring and who returned to Le Mans in summer.

The good thing is that so many of our beloved pre-war vehicles have these great stories attached to them from the days when men wore hats and ties rather than Crocs and seatbelts. And by becoming the next owner of one such car, this heritage will shine on yourself as well, won’t it?

Within that particular framework, this Aston Martin is indeed ‘a rare opportunity to acquire’, as its seller describes it for potential buyers. Yep, it’s an ex-Works car driven to second in class and fourth overall at the 1930 Brooklands Double Twelve, first in class and seventh overall at the Irish Grand Prix, and more. Supposedly the fate of most of the works racers from the Aston Martin stables wasn’t very decent (eg: they were modified and hacked about), but somehow this one managed to escape all that. After the late 1990s, early 2000s restoration it was entered at Le Mans Classic a couple of times when raced by Aston’s then-boss Ulrich Bez, making it probably the only Aston-Martin to have been raced by two CEOs of the company with a 76-year gap. Does that matter? Yes, it does. Naturally not for everyone though.

See this 1930 Aston Martin Team Car LM4  for sale in our online Marketplace.

Words by Jeroen Booij.

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