Who was Greene? He was the owner of Gilby Engineering who in the mid 1950s fed his enthusiasm for the sport by entering his own F1 team, first with a Maserati 250F for Roy Salvadori to drive and then, ambitiously, building his own Gilby grand prix car for Syd’s son Keith to compete with. The Gilby Engineering GP team competed in 12 grands prix and scored no points.
If the next owner of this DB4 GT gets it back to how it looked when Syd Greene used it as his road car, then, doors or no doors, it could be a smart buy. Only 75 DB4 GTs were ever built and while they do not approach the values of the Zagato models, they still regularly appear around the £3-3.5m mark. Now, where to get a pair of lightweight aluminium DB4 doors…
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