This is one of only 20 ‘customer cars’ built following the early success of Aston Martin’s DB3S Works Team. Of the 20, this is believed to be the only car bought as an actual road car, rather than being acquired for the purpose of racing. Therefore, the car is all the more remarkable for not having been raced.

The original owner, George Stanley Merino Harrocks (he never used his first name, going by Stanley or S.M. Harrocks) had competed in British trials events throughout the 1930s. During WW2 Stanley served as an officer in the Royal Marines and was selected for the elite special forces unit, the ‘Special Boat Section’.

Stanley had a love of speed and owned a number of other Aston Martin sports cars. He had a DB2/4 and, possibly, even a DB4 GT Zagato, alongside a DB4 saloon and DB4 GT. There was also a DBS that Stanley bought second-hand for his son’s 21st birthday! 

By 1965 the car had been acquired by well-known British-based car collector and historic racer Nigel Dawes, and was campaigned in club events and at circuits such as Silverstone. In 1985 the car was bought by former Coys of Kensington Chairman, Jeffrey Pattinson. Jeffrey raced the car extensively,  notably taking part in the 1986 Mille Miglia Retrospective. The car even appeared in a well-known poster ‘Aston Martin, the Post-war Years’. By 2008 it had moved to South Africa and became part of the Franschhoek Motor Museum until its recent purchase by Aston Martin Lagonda Chairman, Lawrence Stroll, in 2021.

Recently DB3S/110 has been subject to a full restoration by a handpicked team of expert craftspeople – returning it to its original and painstakingly researched specification.