Cosmetically and, we believe, dynamically, this car seems to us to be in very decent condition.

However, the vendor tells us (and we’ve experienced it for ourselves) that it has recently developed a few errant behaviour issues related to its running.

It starts up, gets going and presses on for a bit, then decides for reasons best-known to itself that it would prefer to misfire, backfire and/or conk-out – depending on how the fancy takes it.

It might well be that all it requires is a good service and a long run-out.

We don’t know.

We’re not mechanics or engineers.

So, for the purposes of this listing, we’ll limit ourselves to describing the car’s cosmetic appearance and condition.

This particular example has covered 82,104 miles from new and has been owned by the vendor since 2004, when he purchased the vehicle from GMES Classic and Sports Cars.

They had the car appraised and serviced by Reg Vardy Aston Martin and wrote the following about it in their 2004 listing.

“This is a f...