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    WHEN ASTON GOT GROOVY

    Jun 03, 2021 5 minutes
    WORDS RUSSELL HAYES
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    GERED MANKOWITZ/ALAMY/SHUTTERSTOCK

    It’s a December day in 1966. Monty, your agent, flicks the ash from his cigar out of the window onto Shaftesbury Avenue and turns to you. ‘You’ve had a good year, love’ – he calls everyone love – ‘very good. It’s time you splashed out on a new motor. I don’t mean a Jag – everybody’s got one. You want one of them Austin Martins. That says you’ve hit the big time.’

    Through the 1960s, a new Aston had steadily become a must-have for a new breed of people. Talented, suddenly famous, suddenly rich British youngsters. The DB4 was even advertised as the ‘ultimate symbol of success’.

    Here to open the ’60s showbiz Aston Martin motor show comes Peter Sellers, the actor and comedian who would change his motors as often as his socks. By 1964, when he was

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