A U.S. exotic car dealership is selling a 60-year-old Aston Martin DB4 that spent over half of its life standing abandoned in a barn. The price is not available, but The Sun reports that it is estimated at around $320,000 despite the miserable condition.
The seller claims a Vietnam war veteran owned this DB4 Coupe back in the 1970s. After coming back to the USA, he allegedly found a job at a car repair shop whose owner let him work on several other cars. Once the repairs were complete, the owner of the shop presented the veteran with this DB4 as a means of payment, saying he could finish restoring it and drive at as his own.
For some reason, the man parked the DB4 in his garage and never got around to the restoration. It is unclear how the current seller came into possession of it: he might have received the vehicle as part of his inheritance or along with the land plot where the barn was situated. In either case, this is not stated in the listing.
What we do know is that both the body and the interior are in lamentably bad shape and the engine is not guaranteed to start at all. Importantly, all the main units and components are original and the car is very rare, coming from a batch of barely more than 1,100 units. When new, its 3.7-liter inline engine drove the wheels with 240 PS (237 hp / 177 kW) and 325 Nm (240 lb-ft) of torque.
The Sun believes that, once restored, the British classic could fetch an auction price north of one million USD.