THE WONDERFUL, TROUBLED WORLD OF REPLICAS AND CONTINUATIONS
If you ever find yourself in the South of England wandering around the back streets of terraced homes in suburban Surrey, you’d be hard pressed to notice a small alleyway halfway down one such street. Follow it down and you’ll find the home of Richard Stewart Williams Ltd, better known simply as ‘RSW’, a moniker bandied about by those fortunate enough to have had their classic breathed on by Richard and his team over more than five decades. It’s where the documentary Stars and their Cars was filmed in the 1990s.
It’s also where, in 1991 and 1992, the world of continuation cars kicked off when RSW, in collaboration with Aston Martin Lagonda (AML), oversaw the build of six so-called ‘Sanction II’ DB4 GT Zagatos. That came about because only 19 of the originally planned 25 had been built in period, most seeing success on the track in
