1963 Aston Martin DP214

This was one of the competitors in the Coys of Kensington GT Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1995.

It's Simon Draper's 1963 Aston Martin DP214 in which he shared the driving in the race with Gary Pearson. This was one of two Project 214 cars built (the other being completely destroyed in an accident at the Nürburgring in 1964) and was based on DB4GT chassis 0194/R with the 3,670cc straight-6 engine bored out to 3,750cc.The car ran in the Le Mans 24 Hour race twice, retiring after 11 hours with a broken piston when in third place in 1963 driven by Bill Kimberley and Jo Schlesser, and in 1964 it was driven by Mike Salmon and Peter Sutcliffe but was disqualified after 18 hours for topping up with oil before the permitted time. It was in eleventh place at the time.

Aston Martin Project 214 Replica

This car competed in the 2¼ hour long Gentlemen Drivers GT and Sports Endurance Race at the HGPCA's International Historic Grand Prix meeting at Donington Park in May 2004.

It's shown in the programme of the event as a 1961 3.9 litre Aston Martin DB4 GT to be driven in the race by Wolfgang Friedrichs and David Clark, but it is actually Wolfgang Friedrichs' replica of the Aston Martin Project 214 cars that were built in 1963.

I showed photographs of the only remaining original Project 214 car on 23 January 2017 and 7 June 2018.

Aston Martin Project 214

This car competed in the Coys of Kensington GT Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1994.

It's Simon Draper's 1963 Aston Martin DP214, who shared the driving in the race with Gillian Goldsmith. 5 NBP was one of two Project 214 cars built (the other being completely destroyed in an accident at the Nürburgring in 1964) and was based on DB4GT chassis 0194/R with the 3,670cc straight-6 engine bored out to 3,750cc.

On 23 January 2017 I showed a photograph of this car at Silverstone in 1996.

Aston Martin Project 214

This car competed in the Coys of Kensington GT Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in August 1996.

It's the 1962 3.8 litre Aston Martin Project 214 #0194/R - based on the Aston Martin DB4GT - and was driven in the race by Simon Draper and Mark Hales. This is the only remaining example of the Aston Martin DP214 - two cars were built and the other one (#0195/R) was destroyed in an accident during practice for the 1964 Nürburgring 1000 km race.