Some are lightly driven in winter, like the 330 I mentioned. I drove the 323 in winter for the 5 years I owned it. The current owner hasn't driven it in winter. It's funny because it seems like some cars are just demolished by the winter and others just shrug it off. We just sold our 2000 BMW 528 that we owned for 14 years. It had only 111k miles on it but it was driven every winter and sat outside every summer and 12 winters. Still looked like new.

I noticed there's someone in my little town that got a DB9 last fall and drove it all winter. I don't drive my Vantage in winter.

 

I am really curious how mine looks underneath now that's it's been thru a winter, a light one for Jersey, but it was still winter. But, when I had an airbox put in last week at FCKAM they would not let me in the shop. I've never serviced my previous cars at dealers that wouldn't let me wander back and check my car out thoroughly when it was on the lift, but, not at FCKAM [in fact the tech told me he would get yelled at if I was caught in the shop at all]. And, there's no way to get into the shop like at most dealers, you have to go back thru the offices. Bottom line I'm going to have to stop over Nissan and pay them to put it on the drive on lift just so I can inspect what the winder did.

 

License plate has been attached with zip ties. Must be a Canadian thing?

 

wow, sold for $26k.

 

Wow. I'm blown away.. Can't believe a Vantage sold that cheap.

 

That's a lot for a parts car.

 

100k is no big deal unless beat. One needs only to asses driveline slop to determine that. Just turned 100k (will post report soon) and have original clutch and have only changed oil tires, and a few little things here and there not totaling many $. (front rotors only once) I drive conservatively though and can count the number of times I've hit the rev limiter on one hand. I would never consider tracking any stock Vantage or even one slightly modified and would never want to drive a track ready car on the street. If one has had seat time in a dedicated car you know already the issues. Would one where Eric Heiden's skates on a farm pond ? Some would and that is great, but not for me.

 

It's not like this example had 100k miles worth of records detailing the parts used and intervals gone...Some visible blemishes, lots of unknowns. If the new owner puts $10k into it in the right places, he'll probably wind up with a $35k car that's ready to go the distance. If he puts $20k into it...still a $35k car. I think that was a pretty fair price.

You can find clean, low-mile examples for $40-50k all day, and they're not poised to appreciate any time soon.

Most people are terrified of these cars due to the reputation of (literally) every other Aston Martin that was designed and built before it. The V8 Vantage is the first of them that doesn't just drop gold coins on the ground when you hit a bump.

 

2 more Astons on bring a trailer right now

 

that 02 Vanquish loooove it

 

How does BaT work? It is just like eBay? Has anyone bought from it? The site looks pretty sketchy...

 

it is not sketch, been around for quite a while.

 

It is like ebay, but the company will pretty much force a reserve price on you to make sure the car is sold, so they can get their commission.

When I was selling my car I tried to negotiate with them on the reserve and they wouldn't go above 43k, I ended up trading it in for 47k.

 

It's effectively en eBay auction that people can comment on and is filtered for, like, sane sellers and cars that aren't part of the 90% of boring ones out there.

You pay $100 for a week-long auction, give them photos and a description, and that's about it.

 

That vantage was for sale in Canada for a very long time, over a year i think. So was the easies way to get rif of his vantage. 26k USD is low 30 is Cad right now.