| From Ron Cummings:
"According to the Chris Nixon
article "The Wayward Aston" published in Vintage Motorsport Nov/Dec 1996
pg 20, the missing Aston is serial number DB3S/109. This was the ex-Joe
Lubin car that was built up from a production car to full 1956 FIA secs
and with disc brakes and the latest factory team motor.
The chain of ownership looks
like this: Factory, Lubin, Keith Hoyt, Bill Wright (
Jack Matthes-driver, car equipped with Chevrolet V8 motor ). The
car was still missing in 1996, last seen in Burbank, California.
Chris Nixon authored a book called " The Aston Martin DB3S" that was published
by Palawan Press of London in 1996.
According to Nixon the California
racing DB3S Astons were:
| Rod
Carveth: |
#104 |
Production car, ex
Kangaroo Stable. |
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#11 |
Factory racer, aka DBRS,
with special twin plug head, possibly with disc |
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brakes, last factory racer. |
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| Jack
Graham: |
#112 |
Production car, delivered
in San Francisco by David Brown in person. |
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Later driven by Clem Proctor
with Chevrolet motor. |
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| Joe Lubin: |
#8 |
Factory racer, possibly
with disc brakes, and strange wheels. |
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#115 |
Production car, later driven
by Bill de Creeft and Ron Keil. |
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#118 |
Production car, ex Hans
Davids, ex Paul Hyatt. |
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#109 |
Production car converted
to factory racer with disc brakes and strange |
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wheels, this was a
show car that was wrecked by a magazine |
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writer/tester before being
converted to a racer by the factory before |
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being delivered to Lubin.
Later Keith Hoyt, Bill Wright ( Jack Matthes- |
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driver, car equipped with
Chevrolet V8 motor ). |
Factory racers #9, #10, #11
were converted to two door bodies for 1956 FIA rules.
The DB3S
cars still remain a bit of a mystery to me. More complications arise
when we consider an earlier series of cars called DB3. Serial numbers 112
and 109 later raced in California with Chevrolet motors. The drivers were
Graham and Clem Proctor (112) and Jack Matthes (109). Serial
number 109 was still lost at the time Nixon wrote his article, last seen
in Burbank, California."
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