One of the more pleasant tasks of the month was to go down to Vantage Engineering near Horsham and drive the ultimate version of the original Aston Martin V8 Vantage. Made in 1989 right at the end of production this was a Volante with the coveted ‘X-Pack’ engine from the ugly but effective Aston Martin Zagato.
So often on these jobs you get excited by the prospect of driving such a car only to find it’s tired or not been prepped and you end up imagining what it would have been like had it been properly looked after. So this time I steeled