• Three owners from new • Present ownership since 2005 • Factory converted from right to left-hand drive and from manual to automatic transmission • Extensively refurbished and upgraded by Works Service in 2006 with no expense spared • Only 7,478 kilometres recorded • Requires recommissioning "It's not by any means the world's most expensive drophead in production (the Corniche costs an extra £23,000) nor is it quite the quickest, though a Porsche Cabrio would have to be very well driven to get away from it, but the Aston Martin Volante is perhaps the greatest.

It is a true sports car which is also luxuriously comfortable." - Fast Lane.

With the introduction of the Vantage in 1977, Aston Martin's V8 was thrust back into the supercar league.

The name had previously been applied to high-power versions of the DB six-cylinder cars, and in the V8's case the Vantage tune raised maximum output to around 375bhp - in Rolls-Royce fashion the factory chose not to disclose the actual figure, me...