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Aston Martin DB2/4

Index Aston Martin DB2/4

The Aston Martin DB2/4 is a grand tourer sold by Aston Martin from 1953 until 1957. [1]

31 relations: Alfred Hitchcock, Aston Martin, Aston Martin DB Mark III, Aston Martin DB2, Aston Martin DB3, Aston Martin DB4, Car tailfin, Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera, Coachbuilder, Convertible, David Brown (entrepreneur), Feltham, Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout, Grand tourer, Gruppo Bertone, Hatchback, Lagonda straight-6 engine, Mille Miglia, Monte Carlo Rally, Morris Minor, Newport Pagnell, Overhead camshaft, Roadster (automobile), Sports car, Straight-six engine, Superleggera, The Birds (film), The Motor, Tickford, W. O. Bentley, 2+2 (car body style).

Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director and producer, widely regarded as one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema.

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Aston Martin

Aston Martin Lagonda Limited is a British manufacturer of luxury sports cars and grand tourers. It was founded in 1913 by Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford. Steered from 1947 by David Brown, it became associated with expensive grand touring cars in the 1950s and 1960s, and with the fictional character James Bond following his use of a DB5 model in the 1964 film Goldfinger. Their sports cars are regarded as a British cultural icon. Aston Martin has held a Royal Warrant as purveyor of motorcars to the Prince of Wales since 1982. It has over 150 car dealerships in over 50 countries on six continents making them a global automobile brand. Their headquarters and the main production site are in Gaydon, Warwickshire, England, alongside one of Jaguar Land Rover's development centres on the site of a former RAF V Bomber airbase. One of Aston Martin's recent cars was named after the 1950s Vulcan Bomber. Aston Martin has exploited its branding for projects including speed boats, submarines, bicycles, monster trucks, clothing and real estate development..

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Aston Martin DB Mark III

The DB 2/4 Mark III (normally simply called DB Mark III, even at the time of its introduction) is a sports car sold by Aston Martin from 1957 until 1959.

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Aston Martin DB2

The Aston Martin DB2 is a sports car that was sold by Aston Martin from May 1950 through to April 1953.

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Aston Martin DB3

The Aston Martin DB3 and later DB3S were sports racing cars built in the 1950s.

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Aston Martin DB4

The DB4 is a grand tourer sold by Aston Martin from 1958 until 1963.

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Car tailfin

The tailfin era of automobile styling encompassed the 1950s and 1960s, peaking between 1955 and 1961.

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Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera

Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera is an Italian automobile coachbuilder.

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Coachbuilder

A coachbuilder is a manufacturer of bodies for passenger-carrying vehicles.

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Convertible

A convertible or cabriolet is a passenger car that can be driven with or without a roof in place.

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David Brown (entrepreneur)

Sir David Brown (10 May 1904 – 3 September 1993) was an English industrialist, managing director of his grandfather's gear and machine tool business David Brown Limited and more recently David Brown Tractors, and one time owner of shipbuilders Vosper Thorneycroft and car manufacturers Aston Martin and Lagonda.

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Feltham

Feltham is a large town in the London Borough of Hounslow, west London, England, west of Twickenham, south-west of Hounslow and north of Walton-on-Thames.

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Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout

In automotive design, an FR, or front-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout is one where the engine is located at the front of the vehicle and driven wheels are located at the rear.

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Grand tourer

A grand tourer (gran turismo) (GT) is a performance and luxury automobile capable of high speed and long-distance driving.

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Gruppo Bertone

Gruppo Bertone, commonly known simply as Bertone, was an Italian automobile company, which specialized in car styling, coachbuilding and manufacturing.

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Hatchback

A hatchback is a car with a hatch-type rear door that opens upwards and often a shared volume for the passenger and cargo areas.

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Lagonda straight-6 engine

The Lagonda Straight-6 is a famous automobile engine used by Aston Martin and Lagonda marques in the 1950s.

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Mille Miglia

The Mille Miglia (Thousand Miles) was an open-road endurance race which took place in Italy twenty-four times from 1927 to 1957 (thirteen before the war, eleven from 1947).

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Monte Carlo Rally

The Monte Carlo Rally or Rallye Monte Carlo (officially Rallye Automobile Monte Carlo) is a rallying event organised each year by the Automobile Club de Monaco which also organises the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix and the Rallye Monte-Carlo Historique.

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Morris Minor

The Morris Minor is a British car that debuted at the Earls Court Motor Show, London, on 20 September 1948.

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Newport Pagnell

Newport Pagnell is a town in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Overhead camshaft

Overhead camshaft, commonly abbreviated to OHC, is a valvetrain configuration which places the camshaft of an internal combustion engine of the reciprocating type within the cylinder heads ("above" the pistons and combustion chambers) and drives the valves or lifters in a more direct manner compared with overhead valves (OHV) and pushrods.

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Roadster (automobile)

A roadster (spider or spyder) is an open two-seat car with emphasis on sporting appearance or character.

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Sports car

A sports car, or sportscar, is a small, usually two-seater, two-door automobile designed for spirited performance and nimble handling.

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Straight-six engine

The straight-six engine or inline-six engine (often abbreviated I6 or L6) is an internal combustion engine with the cylinders mounted in a straight line along the crankcase with all the pistons driving a common crankshaft (straight engine).

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Superleggera

Superleggera (translation: "super light") is an automobile coachwork construction technology developed by Felice Bianchi Anderloni of Italian coachbuilder Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera.

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The Birds (film)

The Birds is a 1963 American horror-thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, loosely based on the 1952 story of the same name by Daphne du Maurier.

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The Motor

The Motor (later, just Motor) was a British weekly car magazine founded on 28 January 1903 and published by Temple Press.

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Tickford

Tickford is an automobile engineering and testing company with an almost two century-long history of coachbuilding and is now famous for tuning and such products as the 140 mph Tickford Turbo Capri.

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W. O. Bentley

Walter Owen Bentley, MBE (16 September 1888 – 13 August 1971) was an English engineer who designed engines for cars and aircraft, raced cars and motorcycles, and founded Bentley Motors Limited in Cricklewood near London.

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2+2 (car body style)

The 2+2 is a version of the coupé car body style that has two small rear seats for children or occasional usage, along with two front seats for the driver and front passenger.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aston_Martin_DB2/4

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