DB3S

When I researched the serial number it looked like it was from a DBS road car from the late '60s not a DB3S.

 

Here is a rare appearance of chassis #1 which will be shown at Pebble Beach this Sunday, fresh from England
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Too beautiful!

Always wondered though about the strange wheels. Who made these?

Best,

Jack.

 

They were Borrani's made for racing-outer laced for rigidity, have the Rw # somewhere in my archives. cheers kdl

 

Thanks Kenneth!

They certainly played around with the lacing of wirewheels, and this is just very unusual. I had no idea these were made by Borrani.

Best,

Jack.

 

Are you sure they're Borranis? I think the RW numbers they list now are the normally laced wheels used on the non works cars.

We've just had one of these wheels in for spoke replacement and it had no stampings on the rim as we'd expect to see on a Borrani.
I wonder if they were made by Dunlop who made the alloy rim wheels for competition C-Types, and Austin Healeys>

 

The Velocity Channel will be re-airing the episode of Legendary Motorcar where Klutt buys an orange '55 DB3S (that later was profiled in Sports Car Market magazine) Tuesday afternoon at 4pm EST, fyi.

 

The 3/S wheels were by Borrani 5x16 side laced # 3362 cheers kdl

 

Just found the ebay listing. This was a total misrepresentation, first DBS's were manufactured from April 1970-May 1972 never in 1954 and never in glass fiber. Most likely someone took the number plates from a rust bucket DBS and slamed togeather a title and a glass fiber body, although, there were a few good quality look alike 3s's made in the Uk and look alike DBR's are currently being make in the uk-mostly with Jaguar components. cheers kdl

 

I was at a private individuals collection where he had a dbr1, dbr2 and a 3s.

Beautiful cars.