Immaculate collection

It’s not often that a DB5 Vantage coupé in gleaming Silver Birch is the least remarkable car in a group of three, but in this exalted company the coupé – or Saloon in period Aston parlance – is very much the common or garden variety, as a glance at the build numbers will confirm. The silver car is one of only 60 DB5 Vantage coupés built in period, but that’s positively commonplace compared with the Convertible, of which just five (or possibly six) were made to Vantage spec.

Five? Pfft. If you want real exclusivity you need to direct your attention to the DB5 Vantage Shooting Brake. Specifically, the car you see here. The one and only ’Brake that was equipped with the more powerful Vantage engine in period.

These tiny numbers explain the one very large number attached to these three cars should you wish to buy them as a set. As currently offered by Hatfield-based specialist Nicholas Mee & Co, the ‘DB5 Vantage Icons Collection’ has a £4 million price tag attached. That’s a lot of money, but then if you tot up the values of the three cars individually (coupé probably knocking on