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This picture is from year 1999 – I was attending British school in Warsaw, Poland. Me and Jun were bit of an ‘outcast’ compared to our other friends when it came to recreations. We read “Transworld skateboarding” magazines and dreamed of living in California skateboarding & watching Tony Hawk and Andy Mac. After few years, both of us ended up living in States. We attended 2003 X-GAMES and watched our heroes flying in front of our eyes. Even though we don’t skateboard no more (getting old & little 8 yr olds are far more superior than us these days), we still have the passion in our hearts. Good old memories…
Aston Martin
Est. 300 bhp at 6,000 rpm, 3,670 cc twin plug, dual overhead camshaft alloy engine with two distributors and three Weber 45 DCOE carburetors, four-speed synchromesh alloy-cased, close ratio gearbox, monocoque steel “punt-type” chassis with four-wheel coil-spring suspension, independent to the front, solid axle rear with trailing arms and Watt’s linkage lateral location, four-wheel Girling disc brakes. Wheelbase: 95″
The Aston Martin DB4 was unveiled at the 1958 Paris Salon. A totally new car, the introduction of the DB4 was a significant achievement for a small British manufacturer. The specification included a completely new steel platform chassis with disc brakes all around and a freshly developed alloy twin-cam 3.7 liter straight six engine, all clothed in an elegantly-proportioned fastback aluminum body designed by Touring of Milan. Overall, the DB4 was state-of-the art for its time, a masterpiece of robust British engineering in combination with exquisite Italian styling. Of all the postwar Aston Martins, Sir David Brown’s gracefully sleek DB4 is certainly one of the most admired.
The chassis was engineered under the watchful eye of Harold Beech and features independent front suspension and a live rear axle well-located by trailing arms and a Watt’s linkage. The body construction utilizes the vaunted Touring Superleggera process, which consists of a skeleton made up from small diameter steel tubing covered by hand-formed aluminum alloy body panels. The coachwork was constructed by Aston Martin under license from Touring at its newly deployed facility in Newport Pagnell.
HISTORY OF ASTON MARTIN DB4 GT # 0175/L
The GT we have the pleasure of offering here was the last DB4 GT built and sold by Aston’s Newport Pagnell Factory. (All the chassis numbers after # 0175, beginning with # 0176 were assigned to the 19 Zagato-bodied DB4 GTs.) The factory build sheet shows that after receiving the UK Registration plate “934 CGT,” it was shipped to first owner A.G. Medawar of Switzerland via agent Joseph Saouda.
Sometime in the late 1960s it was sold to an R.S. Simpson with the address P.O. Box 7210, Beirut, Lebanon. Simpson, thought to be a petroleum engineer, later shipped the car back to Holland. Simpson sold the car to Aston Dealer and ex-Chairman of the Club Charlie Turner of Atlanta, Georgia in 1976. Turner loved his GTs, buying, owning and selling several examples during a three decade period beginning in the mid-1960s.
Turner was awarded a third place trophy in the 1976 Aston Martin Owners Club Concours held at Lime Rock Park, CT before selling 0175/L to Lt. Col. Boone Crowe of California. Crowe campaigned 0175/L in West Coast vintage racing, including several Monterey Historic events in the 1980s. During Crow’s last visit to Laguna Seca, he managed to excessively prang the nose of the car, after which it was laid up. When Boone Crowe passed on, his widow Kim eventually gave the car to a shop in Utah for repairs and restoration work which was never completed.
In the spring of 1994, California Aston broker and parts dealer Ken Boyd brokered a sale of the now partially disassembled GT from Kim Crowe to a vintage racer and former AMOC Chairman. A total “A-to-Z” restoration and race preparation was carried out on his behalf by the father and son team of Robert & Jon Clerk of Performance Tuning & Restoration in Pompano Beach, Florida. The quality of the work was well-proven as the owner scored multiple first places at Lime Rock, Road Atlanta, Watkins Glen and Laguna Seca over the next two racing seasons. In the fall of 1997, fellow AMOC board member Richard Sirota talked the owner out of the GT.
After several road rallies with Sirota, including the Colorado Grand and the New England 1000, it was sold to the previous California-based owner in 1999. Further West Coast tours ensued, including the Copperstate and the California Mille, before 0175/L was sold to its current Arizona-based owner, a respected collector who has maintained the car in climate controlled storage ever since.
If you like the concept of a rare alloy-bodied Grand Touring Coupe that looks sensational, goes 150 mph, handles like a race car, spoils you with its Connolly hides and Wilton wool carpeting AND is eligible for the world’s best driving events, you must consider the acquisition of this Aston Martin DB4 GT.
Estimate:
$950,000-$1,000,000 US
VEHICLE DESCRIPTION COURTESY RM AUCTIONS
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My little bookshelf in my bed room is finally, well sort of finished. I’ve got a Sony record player, an amplifier and a bookshelf speakers installed. I am really appreciating the nostalgic sound that LP’s produce. Last week I purchased Chopin’s LP box set – ‘Rubinstein plays Chopin’ which includes Chopin’s Polonaises, Waltzes, Nocturnes, Impromptu and Preludes. Chopin’s Nocturne in F minor, E Flat, B, and E Minor is simply amazing. I will be going back to the music store to find more rare classic LP’s.
Lately, I’ve been trying to read more books. I was holding onto Ernest Hemingway’s four novel collection for awhile but put it down due to Ansel Adams and Alfred Stieglitz’s autobiography. It’s fascinating to read my favorite photographers life in their own words…
Morro Bay trip
view of the Morro Rock
view from my inn’s terrace … it was so serene
view of the amazing night sky
I was lucky enough to stay in such a wonderful place, this view was 20 seconds away from my room
going through Montana De Oro State Park
Backbay Inn at Morro Bay
view of the water front
Morro Bay State Park beach
so cool
found this little book store by the bay, they were having a wedding behind this book store’s garden
I will definitely be back here again
BillyKirk
“Brothers Chris and Kirk Bray have been producing leather goods for the last ten years. They launched Billykirk from Los Angeles in 1999, learning their craft from a third generation leather maker. A simple leather strap kick started the business, a decade later their collection has flourished into other offerings that consists of bags, belts, shoes, wallets, hats and other accessories. Since expanding and moving their operation to the East, they’ve employed a group of Amish leather makers to produce much of their line, while wrapping up production in their studio. We visited the brothers over the summer to observe their operation first hand and to discover the beauty behind the process.”
Director & Editor Brennan Stasiewicz
Producer Tom Ran
Director of Photography Ed David
Sound David Hnatiuk
Titles Dennis Payongayong
*After watching this short film, I am assured that I will be getting something that will last a long time*
Billykirk NO.92
finally ordered my billykirk wallet
“Our hand-stitched card/cash cases are one of our most popular items and one of our most cherished designs. Top quality waxed cording and German Prym snaps. They only get better with age. Created in response to the lack of smaller wallets on the market and the fact that we both put our wallets in our front pockets. One interior slot and one outside slot. Hand-oiled. Dull nickel silver hardware. 3″ x 4.” Made in the USA.”
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