Aston Martin DB5 - car classics

Aston Martin DB5

Model DB5 best known in the film about James Bonde В«GoldfingerВ», but it was more than a movie star. It is often recognized as the most beautiful of the models Aston Martin and was the exclusive tourist car thanks to its capacity. In the lower parts were fabricated steel chassis with steel levers to maintain the assembled manually aluminum body. To dvuhrychazhnoy front suspension with transverse links, coil springs, telescopic shock absorbers have been added leading rear axle, mounted with the help of fasteners Watts, and traction rods, also with use of screw springs. Inline six-cylinder engine of alloys for the first time was used in the model DBA, but the engineer Tadek Marek reworked it for DB5 and its volume amounted to 4 liters. With double upper shafts and three SU carburetors model was powerful enough, but with three carburetor Weber its capacity reached 234 kW in the version of Vantage. In the first 90 machines used a five-speed gearbox ZF and disc brakes on the front/rear wheels.