11-03-2025
The 1964 Aston Martin DB5 Is Worth Every Penny of Its $13,000 Price
If you had $13,000 to spend on a new car for model year 1964 (that's about $133,650 in 2025 money), why would you have bought a new Aston Martin DB5?
Not because James Bond drove one, because "Goldfinger" didn't show up in theaters until the '65s were hitting showrooms and Bond wheeled an Aston Martin DB Mark III in the original 1959 novel.
No, you bought one because a rich fella such as yourself respects the work of the hand-picked craftsmen who shape the DB5's aluminum-magnesium panels by hand and then apply and wet-sand 22 coats of paint.
You'll find plenty more of such details— including shout-outs for some of the workers at Newport Pagnell—in this magazine advertisement from early 1964.
