It is considered a cult television series. "The Two" delighted action and car fans around the world in the early seventies. Although it only had a short life, in fact only 24 episodes were filmed because Roger Moore, who played Lord Sinclair, one of the two title characters, moved on to James Bond and naturally preferred the more lucrative film work to television filming.
Each episode of "The Two", which was called "The Peruaders" in English, is said to have cost £100,000. The American played the role of Danny Wilde alongside Roger Moore.
A Dino 246 GT and an Aston Martin DBS were chosen as the vehicles for the two extras, the Dino in red, the Aston in "Bahama Yellow".
Aston Martin was only too happy to provide a vehicle for the series and would have liked to make the new, but not yet fully production-ready V8 version available. However, because time was of the essence, a DBS model had to be used for the filming. At least the car was visually similar to the future V8, and an Aston Martin mechanic ensured that the car was in working order during filming.
The opening scene of the series alone was probably worth the use of the car.
The Aston with the film license plate "BS 1" (in reality the car was registered as "PPP 6H") was driven around 5000 miles during the filming of the 24 episodes, after which it was returned to the factory. There the damage and defects were repaired, necessary maintenance work was carried out and the car was then sold on in 1971.
The car changed hands several times until the 1990s, when the fourth owner decided on a complete restoration, returning the car to its exact condition during filming. With only around 70,000 miles on the clock, a large part of the original substance, not to mention the interior, was preserved.
Since then, Sinclair-Aston has been carefully looked after and regularly serviced. In 2013, it was invited to the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este as part of a category celebrating 100 years of Aston Martin.
The yellow-orange Aston Martin is now for sale and will be offered at the Bonhams Aston Martin auction on May 17, 2014. The estimated price is given as £ 350'00 to 550'000 (Euro 419'000 to 658'000 or CHF 507'894 to 798'000), making this car certainly the most expensive DBS, if a bidder is willing to pay that much money.
You can read more about the "Aston Martin Sale" on the Bonhams website.
