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Excuse the late reply but I agree – I think that was an incredible buy even in 2012. It looks to be far from a basket case and particularly with its gearbox still there as most obviously leave with the engine. Does anyone know where it went ? I would have been all over it had I known about it. It is one chassis number away from mine. Mine is 290/67 and this one is 290/66. The engines were also just one number apart. I expect that was just coincidence due to the two engines having been grabbed from the production line while the cars were being built. Does make me think that the cars were likely to have been built side by side and I would have loved to buy it. Scared to imagine what multiple of 1725 might be needed to secure it these few years later. Graham.
I see that reviving or replying to older posts doesn’t seem to be too frowned upon here. I hope so as this is my first post. There were 3 or 4 db 3l cars sold in the US on ebay some years ago. ( at least they were the ones I spotted – likely there were more ) There were a couple of 4 door saloons minus engines and gearboxes from memory. More interestingly, there was one coupe and one DHC sold there too. The coupe had a severely damaged turret because it had taken a tree in about the centre of the roof during a storm. The damage was more severe on the left side and the roof was right down to ( or close to ) the top of the left door. That car was the sort of red / burgundy colour and looked to have likely been a running car prior to the damage from the photographs. This would have been around 1999 I think. The DHC came up a while later. It was grey and looked pretty down at the heel but not a basket case by any means. It was grey and was missing the left front guard or certainly most of it. The cars were both bought by the same person in South America. I regret not keeping the ID of the buyer but I wonder if these are cars you may have knowledge of ? There were also another couple of 4 door saloons advertised elsewhere in the US but again incomplete. One was at a site called “bring a trailer” and I think that ad can still be viewed. regards, Graham.