2003 Aston Martin DB7 Vantage

This DB7 Vantage is a 2003 model year car and therefore one of the final examples to leave the factory.

It has led a decidedly sedentary life ever since, posting 13,000 miles on the odometer in 2009, on its way to the current reading of just 19,651 miles.

The vendor has brought the car to us on behalf of her late father, who purchased the car on something of a whim in 2017, drove it very sparingly until early in 2020 and, thereafter, didn’t drive it at all but instead kept it warm, safe and dry in a garage. 

The car is finished in the unusual shade of BMW Steel Blue with grey leather upholstery, carpets and Alcantara headlining, and walnut veneer inserts.

We think it’s a very classy and good-looking combination, for what it’s worth.

It seems to us to be in really very decent all-round condition, as befits its low mileage and minimal use, but, as it is currently not starting and has been idle for a while, it will need some level (we imagine a low level) of recommissioning before it can be given a clean bill of health and reintroduced to the open road.

Obviously, we can’t vouch for the car’s dynamic abilities as we’ve neither driven nor started it.

The bodywork is straight, true and devoid of any significant dinks, dents, creases, ripples or folds that shouldn’t be there.

The shut-lines and panel gaps are consistent and even, too.

The BMW Steel Blue paintwork is in good order even for the car’s low mileage, let alone its age, and the finish has retained a good amount of shine and depth of lustre.

The wheels are in in pretty good order save for the odd scuff here and there.

There’s a chip on the rear edge of the passenger door; a few nascent bubbles on the n/s/r wing adjacent to the bumper; the rear bumper itself looks to be a slightly different paint shade; there’s a small dink below the driver’s door handle; and the windscreen has a chip in it that looks to be within the driver’s view and therefore of potential interest to MoT examiners. 

The lights, lenses, badging and other exterior fixtures and fittings all appear to be in decent condition. 

The condition of the interior is entirely commensurate with the car’s paltry mileage and low use.

In other words, it’s all in very good order.

The front seats are supportive, comfortable and, as far as we’re aware, fully functional in terms of controls. 

The leather upholstery on the front seats has a few light creases and signs of wear to indicate its age; those in the rear, as ever, look as if they’ve rarely been asked to support the weight of anything much heavier than a Panama hat or a handbag. 

The odd scratch to the lacquer aside, the car’s walnut veneer inserts have largely withstood the ravages of time with admirable fortitude.

The carpets, mats, headlining and door cards are all decent.

As far as we and the vendor are aware, all displays, buttons, knobs, switches, dials, levers and instruments do what they’re supposed to do without complaint, delay or dissent, but, as we haven’t driven or started the car, we can’t vouch for their efficacy.

The boot is as good as the rest of it.

Although its contents are mostly obscured by cowlings and covers, everything we can see in the engine bay looks to be reassuringly clean and dry, and everything appears to be in its right and proper place.

The undersides are also obscured behind protective trays and covers, but nothing we’ve seen has given us any cause to doubt the car’s structural integrity or character.

The car’s original service book contains the following selection of stamps.

• Stratstone Aston Martin – 100 miles – 15.08.03
• Stratstone Aston Martin – 1,056 miles – 30.09.03
• Stratstone Aston Martin – 3,537 miles – 13.07.04
• Stratstone Aston Martin – 7,154 miles – 27.07.05
• City Auto-Sense Stoke – 13,100 miles – 03.08.09
• City Auto-Sense Stoke – 18,638 miles – 06.09.16

The car’s last MoT certificate was awarded, with no advisories, in January 2020, when the mileage was just 21 miles lower than it is today. 

After that, we don’t have any more stamps or accompanying servicing/maintenance invoices, bills or receipts – largely, of course, because the car hasn’t been in use. 

The car comes with full sets of keys, a recent HPI report, a V5C and, as you’ll no doubt have noticed, a pretty cool registration plate.

With the proviso that the car responds as hoped to the light recommissioning we think it probably needs, this splendid Aston Martin DB7 Vantage represents a very rare opportunity to own a super-low mileage example of a very desirable, pedigree GT car.

Whoever the next owner may be, he or she will be getting a great deal of highly prestigious and capable car for what could be something of a bargain price. 

We’re confident to offer this fine car for auction with an estimate of £10,000 - £15,000.

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