1953 Aston Martin DB3 Coupe

This car competed in the Woodcote Trophy Race for Pre 1956 Sports Cars at the Silverstone Classic meeting in July 2010.

It’s Arlette Müller’s 1953 Aston Martin DB3, one of 10 cars built and is chassis number 7 with the 2,580cc 6-cylinder inline Vantage engine. The first owner was Tom Meyer.

1952 Aston Martin DB3

This car took part in the RAC Woodcote Trophy for Pre 1956 Sports Cars race at the Silverstone Classic meeting in July 2010.

It's a 1952 Aston Martin DB3 with the 6-cylinder inline 2,922cc Lagonda engine, and the driving in the hour-long race was shared by Martin Melling and Richard Hall. The chassis number of this car is DB3/5 and it's the car that Peter Collins and Pat Griffith drove to win the 1952 Goodwood 9 Hour race, and that Reg Parnell and George Abecassis took to second place in the 1953 Sebring 12 Hour race.

Aston Martin DB3

1995 was the Diamond Jubilee of the Aston Martin Owners Club and the club featured a display of their models at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July of that year. This is one of the cars that I photographed there.

It's a 1953 Aston Martin DB3, and though it's not listed in the programme of the event it appears to be chassis number DB3/6. The first 5 chassis to be produced were for the works racing team and chassis 6 was the first customer car.

The first owner was Robert Dickson, who in 1953 drove it to 12th place in the British Empire Trophy race in the Isle of Man, and with Desmond Titterington to 5th place in the Tourist Trophy race in Dundrod. Bob Dennis then acquired the car and appeared in races at Goodwood and Aintree in 1954 and 1955, then entered the car in various British events in 1956 at which the car was driven by Geoff Richardson.

After undergoing a couple of changes of bodywork by subsequent owners it was returned to its original specification in 1992.

Aston Martin DB3

This car took part in the RAC Woodcote Trophy for Pre 1956 Sports Cars race at the Silverstone Classic meeting in July 2010.

It's a 1952 Aston Martin DB3, here being 'fettled' in the paddock before the start of practice. The driving in the hour-long race was shared by Martin Melling and Richard Hall. The chassis number of this car is DB3/5.

Aston Martin DB3

The featured marque at the 1995 Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1995 was Aston Martin, with the Aston Martin Owners' Club celebrating its Diamond Jubilee in that year. Amongst the many Aston Martins at the meeting was this 1952 DB3.

It's chassis number is DB3/4 and it was a works car in 1952/53 after which it was road-equipped and registered as 151 BMH.