This is one of the cars that was on display at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1993 where the theme of the meeting was 'British Racing Green'.
It's a 1949 Aston Martin DB2, one of three prototypes that were entered in the 1949 Le Mans 24 Hour race. The other two cars had the same 4-cylinder inline 1,970cc engine as the earlier Aston Martin 2-litre Sports, later known as the DB1, but UMC 66 (chassis number LML/49/3) had the 6-cylinder inline 2,580cc Lagonda engine. David Brown had bought both the Aston Martin and Lagonda companies in 1947 and incorporated them as Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd. UMC 66 was to be driven at the 1949 Le Mans race by Leslie Johnson and Charles Brackenbury, but retired with a broken water pump after just 6 laps.
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