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Supply and demand be damned. The principal of a self-regulating market is clearly too vulgar for the rarefied world of classic Aston Martins. The all-new, all-old “Continuation” DB4 GT—a factory-built facsimile of the original—manages to goose Adam Smith by turning the long-established economic theory on its head. The arrival of 25 more DB4 GTs represents a substantial increase in the total supply: Just 75 were produced the first time around between 1959 and 1963. Yet rather than depressing the values of the existing cars—not even to the equivalent of $ 2 million that Aston Martin Works is charging for the Continuation cars—it has actually boosted values of the originals. Since Aston announced plans to build this car in late 2016, you’d have needed to find at least $ 2.5 million for a half-decent GT and even more for one of the ultra-rare Lightweights that the Continuation model is patterned after. A 1959 example, the first built, sold last August at a Pebble Beach auction for $ 6.77 million. READ MORE ››
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