V8 Sportsman Shooting Brake
V8 Sportsman Shooting Brake

V8 Sportsman Shooting Brake

(1997 - 1999)

In total, three V8 Coupes were coachbuilt by AML AML Works Servicein New Newport Pagnell to a 3-door shooting brake called the 'Sportsman'.

I saw one car twice during it's construction the late 1990s during visits to AML Works Service and it also appeared briefly in an episode of Top Gear in 1999. All three cars were left-hand drive and finished in a non-metallic British Racing Green and sold to customers in mainland Europe. Two of the cars had 'stepped' rear lights with V8 Coupe rear fog lights below the rear bumper. On the later car (by chassis number), the rear lights were horizontal and the valance and fog lights below the rear bumper were from the supercharged Vantage.

V8 Sportsman Shooting Brake

These photographs are from the 2010 Bonhams Paris auction catalogue when one car was initially put up for sale and then withdrawn shortly before the sale. The car was again offered for sale by the French auction house, Cornette de Saint Cyr in Paris, October 2014. Photographs have also borrowed from their catalogue.