Aston Martin DB5

Aston Martin DB5 Shooting Brake by Radford, 1965 The car that made the shooting brake a grand tourer. Aston Martin's owner David Brown wanted a DB5 his hunting dog could ride in, and the coachbuilder Harold Radford rebuilt the car from the windshield back with a long roof and a rear door. Only 12 were built by Radford, eight of them right-hand drive. That rarity is the catch: one sold at auction for £848,750, so this is a car to admire and dream about rather than one to fill with lumber. Everything ahead of the windshield is pure DB5, and that idea of a full-strength sports car with a wagon's tail is the template the rest of this list follows.