This Aston Martin Virage ended up on “the” very popular auction site as a project, on offer from a high-end dealer in Northern New Jersey. It was acquired by a customer of mine, who has been looking for a Newport Pagnell-era Aston Martin with a manual gearbox for some time. The mileage is low and overall the condition is excellent. Unfortunately, the car has not run in nearly a decade.
The Virage’s naturally-aspirated 5.3-liter quad-cam 48-valve V8. Just lovely.
Mick Wilson. We will never forget.
Cast aluminum top cover to conceal those injectors.
It is a real shame the plenum hides all of this. Spun aluminum trumpets pressed into cast aluminum injector holders. Each one port-matched with a pair of cylinders.
Plenum base sans throttle bodies.
Ehhhhm. We were provided a few clues to the car’s inability to run before we tore into it, and other Virage owner’s instincts were dead on. All of the vacuum lines completely deteriorated. We are only starting here, and will be going over all critical systems in the coming weeks.