The 1995 Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1995 marked the Diamond Jubilee of the Aston Martin Owners Club with a display of Aston Martins in the paddock and this is one of the cars in that display.
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It's the Aston Martin DP212 that was created
to run in the 1962 Le Mans 24 Hour race and was driven in that race by Graham Hill and Richie Ginther. The car was built on a DB4 GT chassis with an
inline 6-cylinder 4 litre engine based on the DB4 GT's 3.7 litre unit. A note in the programme of the event says this about it:
1962 Prototype DP212
The only team car entered for
Le Mans in
1962, DP212 was in second
place, but
forced to retire after 6 hours
with
piston failure. In 1964 it was
rebuilt as
a road car, but continued to be raced in
this country. In 1974 DP212
won the
Classic Car Championship,
driven by
Mike Salmon for its owner
Viscount
Downe, President of the AMOC.
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