David Brown Automotive Speedback UK debut at Goodwood Festival of Speed (video)

The David Brown Automotive Speedback (above) gets its UK debut at the Goodwood FoS

The David Brown Automotive Speedback – a 1960s Aston Martin-like creation based on the Jaguar XKR – will get its UK debut at the 2014 Goodwood Festival of Speed.

We’d expected the Speedback to be yet another take on the E-Type – based as it is on the underpinnings of the still very able Jaguar XKR – but instead it was a proper classic GT car that looks much like a classic Aston Martin from the 1960s – think DB5/DB6.

Glorious though a DB5 or DB6 is to own, a lot of the time they’re more a work of art to covet than a car you can drive every day. But the Speedback offers much of the beauty of a classic Aston without the headache of keeping a 50 year old car running,

So we think David Brown has a fighting chance of shifting the 50 or so Speedbacks they plan to build every year, even at a price of £495,000 (+vat – making it £594,000 in the UK).

Now, following a first public reveal at the Top Marques show in Monaco, the Speedback is going on show at the Goodwood Festival of Speed this month to try and entice some of the well-heeled visitors to open their cheque books.

But if you can’t get to Goodwood later this month, then you can drool over the Speedback photos (above) or watch the Speedback doing some high speed testing at Millbrook in the video below.