Bargain white Lagonda?
Discussion
Interesting curio, had no idea these had read gone so balistic: http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C775342
FN2TypeR said:
The car starts and drives but the LPG tank is almost empty so until I can get a way to refill it partially it can't be driven more than up and down the road.
An attempt at a cop out perhaps, or am I just being too suspicious?
Suspicious......I drove the car up to the new filling station yesterday, it drives as you would expect an Aston that's been stood for years to drive. My AM V8i I sold last year required a full engine flush, new leads, plugs, filters, fluids, electrical contact cleaning etc and then ran as sweet as a nut despite it being stood for 7 years. It's currently having a full restoration. I'm not implying mine is a bargain, rather a very good base for a superb example. The cost of restoration as you guys know can far exceed the value of the final product.....in this case it's more a case of recommissioning.....a status I sell a few cars in such as my Lancia Thema 8.32.....two years ago I was selling it and the general question was...'has a new belt been fitted?'......no, hence the price and the recommissioning in the listing. If I'd fitted a new belt I would have to fit another one by now due to age alone as I still have the car.An attempt at a cop out perhaps, or am I just being too suspicious?
If you are about to spend such an amount on a car I would imagine any punter would view it, regardless of my descriptive abilities or lack thereof.
lance1a said:
If you are about to spend such an amount on a car I would imagine any punter would view it, regardless of my descriptive abilities or lack thereof.
advert said:
NB...
If you haven't got anything better to do than waste my time with silly comments then I suggest you get a life....you know who you are.
The latter comment doesn't help your advert.If you haven't got anything better to do than waste my time with silly comments then I suggest you get a life....you know who you are.
I'd go with this one, same price and the steering wheel is on the proper side for a start - http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C763140
R8Steve said:
He's had it 8 years and he's just noticed that it doesn't have a petrol tank?
Seems a bit strange.
Am i alone in thinking these are one of the ugliest cars ever built?
I agree on the ugly......as for the other comment....I bought the car in LA and when it came over I stuck it in the back barn with another 70 cars, I never intended to really get to it for a few years and the values went up. The LPG tank and audio system (which was immense) hid half of the trunk, only once I started to remove all the crap did I notice the tank issue, I naturally assumed it had a tank.....you know, when you get in a car and turn the key and it starts...it kinda makes you think there's a tank. I assumed it had some sort of fuel cell in order to start the car as is the norm on LPG....in this case not though.Seems a bit strange.
Am i alone in thinking these are one of the ugliest cars ever built?
What I don't get is that almost every other Lagonda for sale at the moment is priced similarly, some way over 100K. I don't think this is expensive and I am allowing for the normal haggling/px as well.
The comment I made was aimed at some idiot who emailed me about the car with snide remarks......it shouldn't bother anyone it's not aimed at. I read this all the time on ads and I don't take offence as I know it's not aimed at me...I don't really give a rats arse if the kind of person it offends takes offence. It doesn't help the advert, I agree, but it dissuades morons who have no intention of buying the car calling/texting/emailing me with idiotic comments.
lance1a said:
R8Steve said:
He's had it 8 years and he's just noticed that it doesn't have a petrol tank?
Seems a bit strange.
Am i alone in thinking these are one of the ugliest cars ever built?
I agree on the ugly......as for the other comment....I bought the car in LA and when it came over I stuck it in the back barn with another 70 cars, I never intended to really get to it for a few years and the values went up. The LPG tank and audio system (which was immense) hid half of the trunk, only once I started to remove all the crap did I notice the tank issue, I naturally assumed it had a tank.....you know, when you get in a car and turn the key and it starts...it kinda makes you think there's a tank. I assumed it had some sort of fuel cell in order to start the car as is the norm on LPG....in this case not though.Seems a bit strange.
Am i alone in thinking these are one of the ugliest cars ever built?
What I don't get is that almost every other Lagonda for sale at the moment is priced similarly, some way over 100K. I don't think this is expensive and I am allowing for the normal haggling/px as well.
The comment I made was aimed at some idiot who emailed me about the car with snide remarks......it shouldn't bother anyone it's not aimed at. I read this all the time on ads and I don't take offence as I know it's not aimed at me...I don't really give a rats arse if the kind of person it offends takes offence. It doesn't help the advert, I agree, but it dissuades morons who have no intention of buying the car calling/texting/emailing me with idiotic comments.
In regards to why it's not selling? Not sure as i'm not sure how big the market for these is although i can't imagine it's particularly big.
I suppose the big question is, are the ones for similar/higher prices actually selling?
R8Steve said:
He's had it 8 years and he's just noticed that it doesn't have a petrol tank?
Seems a bit strange.
Am i alone in thinking these are one of the ugliest cars ever built?
No you are not. I love Aston Martin more than any other make and every model is lovely in its own way. Except this. It looks like something you'd find at a car boot sale.Seems a bit strange.
Am i alone in thinking these are one of the ugliest cars ever built?
Never mind the petrol tank. If I somehow came to own one of those I probably wouldn't notice if it had seats.
Ok, not conventionally good looking, but they have something, sort of like a Thunderbirds prop, this is what the future looked like in the 1970's.
To be honest I prefer this to a lot of other Astons, just because it is so outlandish, would love to know the original owners of these, its a proper seventies/early eighties porn mogul or Peter Bowles businessman type with a luxuriant tache, big cigars and a stately pile, that needed a family car, proper captain of industry, I suspect all the original owners are dead by now.
My wife used to occasionally get a lift to school in one, the owner also owned a hall in Cheshire apparently.
To be honest I prefer this to a lot of other Astons, just because it is so outlandish, would love to know the original owners of these, its a proper seventies/early eighties porn mogul or Peter Bowles businessman type with a luxuriant tache, big cigars and a stately pile, that needed a family car, proper captain of industry, I suspect all the original owners are dead by now.
My wife used to occasionally get a lift to school in one, the owner also owned a hall in Cheshire apparently.
The design was very brave at the time, even for the era of the wedge. Everyone was doing it from the Princess to the Esprit, Excel and Éclat to the TVR Wedges and the TR7. But even by those standards, the AM Lagonda was extreme and futuristic.
I suspect they are climbing now because a) they are an Aston and b) they (were) and affordable Aston and C) you would undeniably be making an entrance if you arrived in one of the those.
Parts would terrify me, given all the wizzbangery built into them.
The series 4s look the nicest, with livable interiors and toned down sharpness on the outside.
I suspect they are climbing now because a) they are an Aston and b) they (were) and affordable Aston and C) you would undeniably be making an entrance if you arrived in one of the those.
Parts would terrify me, given all the wizzbangery built into them.
The series 4s look the nicest, with livable interiors and toned down sharpness on the outside.
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