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Posted on 04.22.2010 10:00
by
Kirby

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Aston-Martin | classic cars | auction | Cars | Car News






If you had a car that has been left rotting for the past 20 years, chances are you probably wouldn’t even be able to sell it for a few hundred bucks, let alone sell it for significant amount.

This car should be no exception to that, except that it actually is. Left to rot inside a barn - yes, a barn with all sorts of animals inside - for the better part of two decades, this rusted body of a 60’s Aston Martin DB5 looks every bit like it’s got a one-way ticket to a junkyard.

However, according to folks who know about this priceless model, this particular DB5 can still fetch around £200,000 in an auction despite its mangled, beat-up, and rusted condition. As far as restoring it back to its pristine condition, that’s going to cost you another £200,000. Not exactly chump change for a mess of a car, huh?

So what makes this particular model such a prized catch despite what it looks like now? Turns out, this particular DB5 is one of the 983 DB5s that were built between 1963-1965 and comes with a 4-liter engine that produces up to 282 horsepower.

Imagine what it would go for if the owner hadn’t left it as the barnyard animals’ play yard.

Dilapidated 1960s Aston Martin DB5 can still fetch a hefty sum of moolah originally appeared on topspeed.com on Thursday, 22 April 2010 10:00 EST.

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