Introduced in 1977 as the halo car in Aston Martin’s line-up, the V8 Vantage was ostensibly a development of the then-current Series 3 Aston Martin V8, a car that had taken its lineage from the earlier square-fronted DBS.

The Vantage took the Series 3 model and turned up the wick to create what was widely acknowledged to be “Britain’s first supercar”, boasting performance figures which eclipsed its contemporary rivals, including the Ferrari Daytona.

A fitting car for the well-heeled “man about town” in the early 1980s, the V8 Vantage offered here, boasts interesting rock music provenance.

From nearly new until the end of 1991, the car was owned by Tony Smith—a music producer who worked with The Beatles, Genesis, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, The Who, and more.

One of the founders of Hit & Run Music Publishing, during ownership Tony worked with legendary drummer and vocalist Phil Collins on his 1991 Grammy Award-winning Another Day in Paradise single.

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