RE: Aston Martin Lagonda: Spotted

[CedricN]

Maybe not beautiful in the traditional sense, but it looks cool and futuristic, not sure i would want to own one though.

Only ever seen one in my whole life. It was parked outside a hotel in a tiny Moroccan Beach town of all places, i wonder what workshop they used

[Muzzer79]

Another car I'd love to hand over to Retropower, with instructions to make it reliable then hand it back to me.

[Hairymonster]

Why does that shooting break look like the rear end is drooping?

[OLDBENZ]

Amanitin said:

that's awesome!
never heard of these before

There was a four headlight prototype built in 1969 that Sir David Brown used to be chauffeured around in that I owned for a few years. That led to a rather short run of 7 production cars in the 70s that had the single headlight nose.

Picture of my old car below.

Edited by OLDBENZ on Tuesday 16th October 19:12

[cherryowen]

My Dad took me to the motor show at Earls Court in 1976 when I was a nipper, and I managed to sit in the driver's seat of the one on the Aston stand.

Fell in love with that car.

I'd still buy one for my version of Harry's Garage.

[classicaholic]

I came close to buying one a couple of years ago but was put off by the horror stories about the electric dash but if it’s based on the V8 it’s probably simple really and could gave been rebuilt to modern standards - I should have bought it!

[YellowCar]

cherryowen said:

My Dad took me to the motor show at Earls Court in 1976 when I was a nipper, and I managed to sit in the driver's seat of the one on the Aston stand.

Same year, same story, only I had to make do with a (probably open-mouthed) gawp at it.

Whenever anyone asked what the best car was, for a few years after I would parrot "a Lagonda".

Not so sure the years have been kind though.

[Roman Moroni]

A couple of months ago there was a programme on Channel 4 (Hidden Britain by Drone) where they featured a guy, whose name escapes me, that has a huge warehouse full of classics. He must of had a least 6 Lagondas in his collection, IIRC he said his love of cars stemmed from the Lagonda

[V8LM]

Rodger Dudding - number of Wedge Lagondas in the 20s.

[Roman Moroni]

V8LM said:

Rodger Dudding - number of Wedge Lagondas in the 20s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodger_Dudding

Apparently 24 of the bllighters

[jsc15]

There's also a family (a mother & son I believe) that have about 15 of them in a UK collection, so seems to be a car that lends itself to getting hoarded in number

Also agree that the later Series 4 (without popup headlights) is a more complete and attractive car, however dealer asking prices of current ones for sale are on the high side by some margin. This recent one at Silverstone Auctions with 21k on the clock looked fair value at £73k... http://www.silverstoneauctions.com/aston-martin-la...

Edited by jsc15 on Tuesday 16th October 22:01

[SlowV6]

Does anyone else think it needs a longer bonnet?

[MalcolmSmith]

Just think if Ze Germans had bought Aston Martin we would now have a jacked up SUV version of this with a diesel.

[SlowV6]

How much of that still works..

[woody33]

Everyone always talks about electrics in cars like this like it's a showstopper. Good auto electrician will have it all sorted for a few hundred quid. Rust and parts availability are the real headache.

[rjfp1962]

Just put one of these on your wrist to complete that LED interior!

[Macboy]

woody33 said:

Everyone always talks about electrics in cars like this like it's a showstopper. Good auto electrician will have it all sorted for a few hundred quid. Rust and parts availability are the real headache.

Can't tell if this is ignorance or sarcasm.

[Amanitin]

SlowV6 said:

is that a tiny microwave oven behind the gear lever?
That's very thoughtful of AM.

[Amanitin]

OLDBENZ said:

There was a four headlight prototype built in 1969 that Sir David Brown used to be chauffeured around in that I owned for a few years. That led to a rather short run of 7 production cars in the 70s that had the single headlight nose.

Picture of my old car below.

fantastic. I hope it was as good as it looks

[Bencolem]

Original Article said:

Despite a two-tonne kerbweight it took 7.9 seconds to reach 60mph and had a top speed was 145mph, ranking the Lagonda right behind the four-door Ferrari 400.

What is this four-door Ferrari 400 that you talk of?