The Aston Martin Virage was introduced in 1988 as a top of the range model. The car featured today seen at Castle Combe Classic and Sportscar Action day was built in 1990.

Powered by a 330hp 5.3 litre / 323 cui V8 with 32 valve Callaway designed cylinder heads, the 1790 kg / 3946 lb Virage is capable of reaching 60 mph from rest in 6.5 seconds with a top speed of 158 mph.

Despite being a hand made bespoke machine the Virage dipped into a variety of manufacturers parts bins to keep the costs down, the head lights are sourced from the Audi 200/5000 the tail lights from the 2nd generation Volkswagen Scirocco, the steering column came from General Motors the Climate Control from Jaguar and the steering column from Ford.

Most of these cars are fitted with Chryslers Torqueflite automatic transmission with only fifty being thought to have the 5 speed ZF manual option, all 1050 Virages were built after Aston Martin was acquired by Ford.

Thanks for joining me on this curved edition of ‘Gettin’ a li’l psycho on tyres’ I hope you will join me again tomorrow. Don’t forget to come back now !

PS Don’t forget …

Automobiliart GALPOT Seasonal Quiz

December 26th – January 2nd

Win a set of Paul Chenard Greetings Cards

Set 1 Sports & GT Cars

Set 2 Phil Hill World Drivers Championship 50th Anniversary Edition

Set 3 1934 Season

Set 4 Grand Prix Engines of the 1950’s

or

Set 5 Mike Hawthorn’s Race Cars

The Automobiliart GALPOT Seasonal Quiz will comprise 8 categories.

Overall winner chooses one set of Paul Chenard Greetings Cards from the five sets shown above.

The cards measure 15.24cm x 11.43cm, come in packs of 12 with 3 copies of 4 designs in each set, plus A6 envelopes.

Which set will you choose ?

The free to enter Automobiliart GALPOT Seasonal Quiz will run from December 26th – January 2nd Entries close January 8th 2012, Winner announced January 16th 2012.

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