Aston Martin One-77 review

Keep refreshing the classifieds: you’ll be waiting a while. Only seventy-seven One-77s were produced (all of which are apparently still in existence, despite a couple of unfortunate crunches), and they don’t exactly pop up for sale every weekend down at the local car-mart. You’re going to have to know someone who knows someone. Preferably royalty.

Values? Impossible to say definitively, as each car is so individual, and they’re auctioned so rarely. Budget for between £1.5 and £2 million.

Still, if you can get your hands on one, then Aston Martin will happily look it over for you and set it up just so. This particular example’s just enjoyed a two-year hand-assembled rebuild, complete with racier cams from the one-off Victor.

Aston will dial in the suspension or change the geometry depending how you’d like to use your car. They’ll even ship it about the world so you can thrap it about wherever is most convenient. The prices for such service do not, funnily enough, appear in the public domain.

Even among One-77s, there are rarities: seven chassis were designated Q-Series, denoting even more personalisation. Look out for one by spotting the incongruous red stripe on the front bumper’s lower lip, as if it’s bottomed-out on a speed bump and started bleeding.

Running costs are steep, but come along. Are you really crossing one off the ‘want’ list because it drinks at a rate of teen-miles to the gallon if you’re being careful and emits more CO2 than a Bitcoin factory? This is a machine for the most fastidious, completist, obsessive Aston Martin collector, and they’ll pay whatever it takes to become one of The Seventy-Seven.

Should you be interested in this particular example of Latvian ownership, then you’ll be fascinated to hear it’s chassis 76 of 77, it’s the only one painted in Braemar Blue, and its owner likes to take it to track days at the Red Bull Ring, Nürburgring, Portimao and Spa-Francorchamps. So no, they’re not all garage queens.