2004 V8 Vantage Prototype advertised for sale on Pistonheads

[Jon39]

An interesting historical car, that I had never heard about before.
869 miles from new.

https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/12574967


EDIT
The 2005 Geneva show car was colour Cool Yellow, which for many years until 2016, was displayed on the moat at the Gaydon factory.
Might this be the same car, but now with a different colour. If that is right, it would surely be more famous to very many people, in its original colour.

Edited by Jon39 on Monday 29th November 19:48

[EVR]

So basically this car has been sitting outside and in water from 2004 until 2016?

[Jon39]

EVR said:

So basically this car has been sitting outside and in water from 2004 until 2016?

If it is indeed the same car, then yes.
For £79,900, wonder wether the rear subframe survived!

The advert wording says, 'after playing a starring role throughout 2005 it was retained by Aston Martin and kept in storage at its Gaydon factory .... has never been driven in the wet .... Presented in the official colour of Light Silver metallic .... '

Unusual to state official, rather than original, and Light Silver Metallic is not an AML colour that I have heard of.

[Speedraser]

Very interesting car if it's what they say it is.

[V8V Pete]

Does anyone know how many Vantages were on the stand in Geneva?

If it is the yellow car then why would you ignore that heritage and re-paint it a colour that nobody knows as an original AML colour? Very strange.

A 4.3 V8V, with a fake stereo, that has sat idle for 16 years is only worth £80K if it has real, unspoilt heritage. Was there a silver/grey car on the stand at Geneva too?

[Jon39]

Yes, of course if there were two Vantages on the 2005 Geneva stand, that could be an explanation.
I don't know the answer to that, but I think Aston Martin normally only display one example of cars being unveiled for the first time.

Say you were selling the yellow car. Would you want to describe a life on the water?
There was also the chromium wrap car displayed at Gaydon for a long time. Do not know anything about that one.

Here is a link to photos taken at that motor show. There are a few showing the yellow car.
https://www.gettyimages.ae/photos/75th-year-of-the...


A different photograph.




There was a grey Vantage at the 2003 Detroit show, but not to be confused, because that was the concept car based on a DB7.
That same car was repainted blue, before being displayed at the 2003 Geneva show.

[Bridge1]

V8V Pete said:

Does anyone know how many Vantages were on the stand in Geneva?

If it is the yellow car then why would you ignore that heritage and re-paint it a colour that nobody knows as an original AML colour? Very strange.

A 4.3 V8V, with a fake stereo, that has sat idle for 16 years is only worth £80K if it has real, unspoilt heritage. Was there a silver/grey car on the stand at Geneva too?

There were two cars at Geneva - a yellow one and a silver one, (plus an engine cutaway).

[Big_Dan]

Jon39 said:

There was also the chromium wrap car displayed at Gaydon for a long time. Do not know anything about that one.

the story I heard is that it was a lemon car from China that was brought back or shipped to Gaydon and en route the whole interior was eaten by rats.

They called it Roland, wrapped it and stuck it on the rocks.

[Jon39]

Bridge1 said:

There were two cars at Geneva - a yellow one and a silver one, (plus an engine cutaway).

Thank you. Now we have the answer.

The engine cutaway can be seen in some pictures, but at the time, the press must have been more attracted to photographing the yellow car. Stands out better on magazine covers, which I think is why car makers often choose bright colours.
Remember Lime Essence? How could we forget.

[Bridge1]

Jon39 said:

Thank you. Now we have the answer.

The engine cutaway can be seen in some pictures, but at the time, the press must have been more attracted to photographing the yellow car. Stands out better on magazine covers, which I think is why car makers often choose bright colours.
Remember Lime Essence? How could we forget.

I've got a few pictures of the engine cutaway as well....!

[South tdf]

Most noticeable is most motorshow cars were LHD where as this one was RHD.