1990 ASTON MARTIN VIRAGE

Description

Stratton Motor Company have the pleasure in offering this superb condition 1990 Aston Martin Virage Coupe 6.3.

Finished in British Racing Green with Fawn Leather interior with dark green piping and finished with Parliament Green carpets.

This was an original Aston factory Works conversion at Newport Pagnell carried out some 3 years after its original build. With the engine converted to 6.3 litres, along with the full body rework and conversion, with uprated suspension, brakes and deep dish split rim style OZ alloys. The vehicle file includes the original invoice from Aston Martin Works for its full conversion costing 60,770.

Only 3 owners from new, the last owner has owned this 1990 Aston Martin Virage Coupe since 1995, maintained by Stratton Motor Company since 1995 with a good service history file.

It comes complete with its original tool kit, jack, tyre welding kit, space-saver spare wheel, and warning triangle.

Ahead of the companys forthcoming twin-supercharged Vantage, Aston Martins Service Department offered 6.3-litre conversions for the existing 5,340cc V8-engined Virage. This project had been conceived by Service Department bosses Kingsley Riding-Felce and David Eales, and was given the green light by Walter Hayes, newly installed as Aston Martin CEO by new owners the Ford Motor Company. The projects aim was simple: convert the stock 330bhp Virage into a 475bhp, 178mph supercar. Introduced in January 1992, this package also incorporated improvements to suspension and brakes now featuring ABS for the first time and could be ordered new or retro-fitted to customers existing cars.