By Tobias Carroll When you’re looking at Aston Martins old and new, you’re likely to encounter a model that’s part of the DB series. That’s an homage to Sir David Brown, who owned the company for decades. Along the way, the DB series becamee associated with both engineering and performance. “The early DB series cars earned Aston Martin legitimate sporting credentials and with the James Bond favorite DB5, world recognition,” Chris Perkins and Brian Silvestro wrote in a 2018 Road & Track article. One would think, then, that an Aston Martin from the DB series owned by DB himself would be an espec…