V8 Vantage Oscar India

Potential value drivers

• • Exact Oscar India production is definition-sensitive. RM identifies the “Oscar India” as the second series of V8 Vantage and documents body/market-specific subsets, while Aston Martin’s full AM V8 Vantage table gives 372 saloons plus 194 Vantage Volantes for the entire broader V8 Vantage lineage, not the Oscar India subset.
• • Oscar India was an evolutionary second-series V8 Vantage specification, not a separately numbered limited edition. Exact subset totals should not be substituted with the entire 1977-1990 V8 Vantage production.
• • V8 Vantage was Aston Martin’s performance flagship
• • Oscar India represents the second-series evolution of that front-engined V8 flagship.
• • Oscar India introduced the second-series V8 Vantage evolution with revised/standardised engine and interior treatment
• • Aston Martin’s broader V8 Vantage history documents major carburetion, camshaft, chassis and aerodynamic performance upgrades.
• • Second-series evolution of Aston Martin’s 1977 V8 Vantage, which Aston Martin identifies as its period performance flagship and “Britain’s first supercar” at introduction
• • that first-supercar claim applies to the original V8 Vantage lineage, not specifically to Oscar India.

Risk factors

• • Very high: genuine factory Vantage status, matching-numbers V8, original transmission, LHD/RHD history, factory build sheet and later X-Pack/conversion work materially change authenticity and comparability.
• • Variant-definition and modification risk are central: cars may be true factory Vantages, Vantage-specification conversions, LHD conversions or later X-Pack upgrades. Registration documents and build records should be reconciled with physical specification.