2018 Aston Martin DB4 GT Continuation Track only, one of 25
Built at Newport Pagnell in 2018 to 1959 drawings, and not road legal anywhere
Overview
Compiled by Kept from the seller's intake answers, the documents supplied and published records for the model. The seller does not write or edit this section, and nobody from Kept has inspected the car.
This 2018 Aston Martin DB4 GT Continuation is chassis DB4GT/0212/R, finished in Almond Green over black, and is offered from Franschhoek by from a private collection. Aston Martin Works built 25 of them at Newport Pagnell to the original 1959 drawings, with the 4.2 litre straight six, a four speed manual gearbox, a limited slip differential and an FIA specification cage, bag tank and seat. It has covered 1,860km since it was built, all of it on circuits.
The most important fact about it is what it cannot do. It is not road registrable in South Africa or anywhere else, it has no NATIS certificate and it will never have one, and it entered the country in 2023 on a carnet with an import file rather than as a registered vehicle. It is also not eligible for period historic racing, because it was built in 2018 and has no period competition history, which leaves Aston Martin's own heritage events, private track days and collection use. A bidder who wants to drive it to breakfast is bidding on the wrong car and the seller says so in the transcript.
The Works file is complete and published: the build book for this chassis, the continuation certificate, every annual Works service from 2018 to 2025, the recommissioning after eighteen months of static storage before it was imported, and the corner weight and geometry sheet from May this year. Two consumable dates matter and both are stated. The FIA fuel bladder expires in March 2027 and is a Works item. The harnesses expired in 2024 and have not been replaced. The seat is in date to 2028.
One question went unanswered. Asked to identify the previous custodian and the collection the car came from, the seller declined, saying the 2023 sale agreement carries a confidentiality clause he is not willing to breach. On a car where 25 exist and the ownership chain is part of what is being bought, that decline is material, and the reserve has not been met. Bidders should price it accordingly.
Model background
The original DB4 GT was built between 1959 and 1963, 75 cars, a shortened and lightened DB4 with a twin plug head and a genuine competition history. Survivors trade at a level that puts them beyond use, which is the problem Aston Martin set out to solve in 2017 when it reopened the Newport Pagnell works to build 25 more to the original drawings, with modern metallurgy, an FIA cage and a bag tank.
That combination is exactly why a continuation is difficult to value. It is a genuine Aston Martin, built by Aston Martin, in the building the originals were built in, and it is also a 2018 car with no period history, no road registration and no eligibility for the historic racing where its ancestors run. What it offers is the driving experience of a car nobody sane would now drive, without the fear of using one of the 75.
In South Africa it is close to unclassifiable. There is no local comparable, no register, and no auction record for a continuation of any kind in this market, so the sold archive on this page has nothing to show against it. What can be verified is verified: the Works build book, the continuation certificate and an unbroken Works service record. What cannot be verified is who owned it, and that is the open question in the room.
Essentials
- Lot
- KPT-065
- Year
- 2018
- Model
- DB4 GT Continuation Track only, one of 25
- Mileage
- 1,860 km
- Transmission
- 4-speed manual
- VIN
- DB4GT/0212/R
- Location
- Franschhoek, Western Cape
- Seller
- franschhoek_db4
- Seller is
- Private collection, sold by the owner
- Watchers
- 604
Seller interview
Before the car went live, the seller answered a standard set of questions plus a set our tools generated for this model from its documented failure modes. The full transcript is public, including anything they declined.
10 of 11 answered, 1 declined. A high score means the seller told you more, not that the car is better.
Inferred from the seller's answers and this model's known failure points. Nobody from Kept has inspected this car.
1 question the seller declined
Who was the previous custodian, and what collection did the car come from between 2018 and 2023?
With 25 cars built, the ownership chain is a material part of the value and cannot be reconstructed from the Works record alone.
Known flaws
The seller's own list of what this car needs money spent on.
- 01Not road registrable in South Africa or anywhere else, no NATIS, track use only
- 02Not eligible for period historic racing, because it was built in 2018 and carries no period competition history
- 03FIA fuel bladder expires in March 2027 and replacement is an Aston Martin Works item
- 04Harnesses expired in 2024 and have not been replaced, seat is within date to 2028
- 05Identity of the previous custodian withheld under a confidentiality clause in the 2023 sale agreement
- 06Light stone chipping to the nose and the leading edge of both front arches from track use
Service record
Documents & what's included
What physically comes with the car.
- 01Aston Martin Works build book for chassis DB4GT/0212/R, published in full
- 02Continuation certificate confirming the car as one of 25 built
- 03Aston Martin Works service records from 2018 to 2025, complete
- 04Carnet de passage and import file for the 2023 entry into South Africa
- 05Corner weight and geometry sheet, May 2025
- 06Fuel bladder certificate with the March 2027 expiry printed
- 07Spares package: a spare set of wheels, brake pads, filters and a fitted car cover
- 08No NATIS certificate, because the car has never been registered for road use
Note from the seller
The seller's own words, published as written. The only copy on this page they control.
I bought it in 2023 and imported it on a carnet. It has been to Killarney twice and Zwartkops once with me, always with a Works trained technician present, and it has been in a climate controlled room in Franschhoek the rest of the time. I am selling because I am consolidating the collection down to cars I can actually use, and this one needs a truck, a licence and a booked circuit before it moves.
What I want to be clear about, because it catches people: there is no NATIS. It cannot be registered here. It cannot run in period historic racing. It is a track car and a collection car and nothing else, and anybody who tells you they can get it plated is selling you a problem.
On the previous owner: the sale agreement I signed in 2023 has a confidentiality clause and I am not going to break it on a public page, so I declined that question at intake rather than answer it partially. What I can tell you is that the Works record covers every year of the car's life without a gap, and Aston Martin Works will confirm the service history on this chassis to any serious buyer who asks them directly.
Comments & offers
6 comments · 3 offers
Thirty four and a half million for a car with no papers, no grid to race on and an owner history under a gag clause. Everything the seller can prove he has proved. The one thing he cannot is worth about the difference between this and the reserve, and that is the whole argument for how this site works.
Harnesses out of date since 2024 and a bladder due in 2027 are both small money against the car and both are the sort of thing that gets forgotten until the scrutineer at a track day refuses it. Good that they are on the flaws list with dates.
Worth stating plainly for anybody reading this as an investment: it is not eligible for the Goodwood style grids the originals run in. The seller has said so in the listing, which is more than the last continuation I saw advertised anywhere managed.
I understand it and I am not going to pretend the decline costs nothing. What I will say is that Aston Martin Works holds the record for this chassis and will confirm the service history directly to a serious buyer. Where the car sat between services is what I cannot tell you, not what was done to it.
The confidentiality clause is the problem. On a run of 25 the chain of custody is a real part of the value, and a buyer at this level will want to know whether it sat in a museum, a dealer's stock or a family collection. Those are three different cars.
Complete Works file, build book published, continuation certificate, and the seller leading with the fact that it cannot be registered. That is the correct order to put those things in and almost nobody does it.
Comments & bids
6 comments · 3 offersThe crowd checks the report. Offers post inline, and the seller answers directly. Most recent first.
Thirty four and a half million for a car with no papers, no grid to race on and an owner history under a gag clause. Everything the seller can prove he has proved. The one thing he cannot is worth about the difference between this and the reserve, and that is the whole argument for how this site works.
Harnesses out of date since 2024 and a bladder due in 2027 are both small money against the car and both are the sort of thing that gets forgotten until the scrutineer at a track day refuses it. Good that they are on the flaws list with dates.
Worth stating plainly for anybody reading this as an investment: it is not eligible for the Goodwood style grids the originals run in. The seller has said so in the listing, which is more than the last continuation I saw advertised anywhere managed.
I understand it and I am not going to pretend the decline costs nothing. What I will say is that Aston Martin Works holds the record for this chassis and will confirm the service history directly to a serious buyer. Where the car sat between services is what I cannot tell you, not what was done to it.
The confidentiality clause is the problem. On a run of 25 the chain of custody is a real part of the value, and a buyer at this level will want to know whether it sat in a museum, a dealer's stock or a family collection. Those are three different cars.
Complete Works file, build book published, continuation certificate, and the seller leading with the fact that it cannot be registered. That is the correct order to put those things in and almost nobody does it.