This Arnolt-Aston Martin is an exceedingly rare motorcar being one of the first six original DB2/4 LHD chassis that were fitted with special bodies crafted by Bertone in Turin and then imported to the US by industrialist and car dealer S.H. Arnolt.
Amongst this very limited run of Arnolt-Aston Martins, Chassis LML 505 is even rarer being one of just three spyders and the only one built to deluxe road-going specification.
S.H. Arnolt was a well-known industrialist from Illinois who began to import British sports cars just after the Second World War. By the early 1950s Arnolt had identified the potential to combine the best of British engineering with Italian styling and American sales and distribution networks to create a quick, stylish and profitable sportscar that would meet the growing demand for such cars from an eager American public.
Arnolt’s first forays with this approach were highly promising and involved Italian coachbuilder Nuccio Bertone and the British Motor Corporation Ltd, who supplied Bertone with the MG TD chassis and together they sold 100 examples of the Arnolt-MG during 1952 and 1953. Unfortunately this initial success was not to last and by October of that year BMC had discontinued production of the MG TD and decided not to supply any of the new MG TF chassis to third parties.
A Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance Award Winner and the original New York Auto Show Car and one of only three 1954 Aston Martin DB2/4 Deluxe Competition Spider by Bertone.
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