You can trace the origins of West Sussex-based Copthorne Classics some way beyond when the firm was founded in 2016.
This story begins with a five-year-old boy, gleefully staring at his father’s newly acquired DB6 in 1997 – and follows a family journey through a series of classic Aston Martins.
That boy was called Lee Davies – and, thanks to a namesake tradition spanning three generations, so is his father.
Together they have created a British-car specialist founded in family values and focused on Aston and Jaguar.
It was inevitable. By the time Davies Jnr left school, only one career was on his mind.
He joined a Rolls-Royce and Bentley workshop as an apprentice, and began learning the trade that supported the family’s interest.
After a year he moved to an Aston specialist, and finally worked under the wing of a former Jaguar engineer, learning all he could before his retirement.