David Brown, chairman of Aston Martin, entered a board meeting at which some of his engineers were in attendance, plunked his hunting dog down on the table, and said, “Build me something for him to sit in.” The result was a DB5 built by the factory with an extended cargo compartment, converting it into a spacious “shooting brake” suitable for the hunt, which the Brown family used for many years. So popular was Brown’s Shooting Brake with his gentlemen friends that a limited run of the cars was produced by particular customer order, with similar coachwork that cost more than 50 percent more than a factory DB5. It is believed that 12 were built on DB5 chassis (only three are pictured above), followed by another six, four by Radford and two by HLM Panelcraft, on DB6 chassis.
1965 Aston Martin DB5 Shooting Brake by Harold Radford
1966 Aston Martin DB6 Mk I Shooting Brake by Harold Radford
1967 Aston Martin DB6 Vantage Shooting Brake by Harold Radford
