COOL CLASSIC CAR SPOTTERS POST! (Vol 3)

[rallye101]

TarquinMX5 said:

I've always thought of these as Lagonda Rapides rather than Aston Martin Lagondas but, either way, a rare sight nowadays.

A great big wedge....was enormously long and almost cartoonish

[rallye101]

similar to this one....

[uk66fastback]

I saw this one in Bath a couple of years ago. It was pretty impressive in the flesh in an over-the-top ‘70s way …

[swisstoni]

uk66fastback said:

I saw this one in Bath a couple of years ago. It was pretty impressive in the flesh in an over-the-top ‘70s way …

Pretty impressive shape today. Absolutely alien technology in the 70s.

[Doofus]

One of the loveliest things ever made. I've nearly bought one four times.

One day I'll find one that isn't a pear...

[DickyC]

Doofus said:

One of the loveliest things ever made. I've nearly bought one four times.

One day I'll find one that isn't a pear...

A pear? One should be enough.

[PomBstard]

Contemporary to the AML - hiding under a cover…

[uk66fastback]

1956 Cadillac. In black. It looked a beast! No idea what the motor is far left in the first pic.

[bongtom]

uk66fastback said:

Would that be a 2.8 Ghia? MoT'd and SORN'd ... languishing in the gloom in the Fens.

2.8 Ghia X!

[bumskins]

Doofus said:

One of the loveliest things ever made.

Uhhhhh, okay...

[DickyC]

bumskins said:

Doofus said:

One of the loveliest things ever made.

Uhhhhh, okay...

645 were built. Successful by the standards of AML at the time.

Have you ever been near one? Lots of presence. A real occasion.

At an open day at Newport Pagnell I won a trip in one in the raffle and my lads and I were driven for quite a few miles by a Director of Aston Martin. Fabulous.

[21st Century Man]

uk66fastback said:

Would that be a 2.8 Ghia? MoT'd and SORN'd ... languishing in the gloom in the Fens.

What's the car on the right? Looks like a Scirocco with a Tesla nose! 3dr Focus?

[Mark A S]

uk66fastback said:

I saw this one in Bath a couple of years ago. It was pretty impressive in the flesh in an over-the-top ‘70s way …

I recall back in around 1981 waiting at Bilbao to get the puke boat car ferry back home and a maroon one of these was waiting, albeit in its own que, to get on. Apparently it was the king of Spain's son with some VERY attractive female.

I was in my first Lotus sunbeam, in the peasants que

[StescoG66]

21st Century Man said:

What's the car on the right? Looks like a Scirocco with a Tesla nose! 3dr Focus?

Mk2 Astra?

[Turbobanana]

Mark A S said:

uk66fastback said:

I saw this one in Bath a couple of years ago. It was pretty impressive in the flesh in an over-the-top ‘70s way …

I recall back in around 1981 waiting at Bilbao to get the puke boat car ferry back home and a maroon one of these was waiting, albeit in its own que, to get on. Apparently it was the king of Spain's son with some VERY attractive female.

I was in my first Lotus sunbeam, in the peasants que

[Still Mulling]

StescoG66 said:

21st Century Man said:

What's the car on the right? Looks like a Scirocco with a Tesla nose! 3dr Focus?

Mk2 Astra?

Looks like a Mk1 Focus 3dr to me.

[Rumblestripe]

Still Mulling said:

StescoG66 said:

21st Century Man said:

What's the car on the right? Looks like a Scirocco with a Tesla nose! 3dr Focus?

Mk2 Astra?

Looks like a Mk1 Focus 3dr to me.

Agreed Gen 1 Focus the fold in the bonnet and the curve at the top of the headlight look right to me, the missing bumper and other clues make it a bit confusing.

[Dapster]

Absolutely, mk 1 3 door

[uk66fastback]

Saw this actual car yesterday on the A14 on a flatbed.

https://www.barons-auctions.com/view-lot/4738/for-...

Sold for £1850 back in November. Cheap classic motoring that is.

[bumskins]

DickyC said:

Have you ever been near one? Lots of presence. A real occasion.

I have thankyou, and indeed they do - however, were 'Elephant Man' to walk down your local high street you could say the same thing.

ETA: To be fair, given some of the st BMW seem to be producing nowadays, I suppose you could find some beauty in a Lagonda.