Aston Martin DB4 GT Sanction I by Zagato 1960
Text taken from Automobile Quarterly (I dunno the exact issue)
Photo: Dave Sisson (dsisson@alfa-necrophylia.com)

"In 1959 Aston Martin developed the DB4 GT as a short wheelbase racing version
of the DB4 saloon. Both the saloon and GT versions had handsome bodies designed
by Touring. Aston Martin wanted a series of DB4 GT's that would be lighter and
more competetive racing against the Ferrari 250 GT's, so in 1960 it contracted
Zagato to build bodies for 19 chassis. Many consider the resulting DB4 GT 
Zagato to be the most attractive Zagato body ever.
	The rounded rear end bore a strong resemblance to the contemporary 
short wheelbase 250 GTs that Ferrari was then campaigning. The fron was a 
graceful solution to the problem of incorporating the large Aston grille 
while at the same time providing good aerodynamic penetration. As a whole 
the car seems both elegant and brutish. All 19 still exist in the hands of 
enthusiast owners.
	The DB4 GT Zagatos were marginally faster than their normal GT
stablemats, but they were no match for the Ferraris on the track, especially 
the 250 GTOs.
	A quarter century after the last GT Zagato was built, Victor Gauntlett
and Peter LIvanos, at the time joint chairmen at Aston Martin, took the unusual
step of having Zagato build four additional cars, assigning them the four 
unused serial numbers of the 23 originally allocated in 1959 for the Zagato-
bodied series. Fourd DB4 chassis were shortened and modified to DB4 GT speci-
fications by Richard Williams, an Aston Martin specialist and owner of an 
original DB4 GT Zagato... These recreations, referred to as the DB4 GT Zagato
Sanction II cars, were sold in 1991 for approximately three times the value
of a pristine original Touring-boded DB4 GT, which indicates the attraction of
the Zagato version.


Another photo (am-zagat1.jpg) which was provided by Julian Gothard shows 
another car with Jim Clark at Goodwood back in 1961.