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The short Pathe film, in black and white, and this section is for the October (?) 1962 London motor-show.
The Lagonda with number plate which spells out the word “Rapide”, so no identification as to car. Although I would hazard a guess that someone might know which car was the Motor Show car that year ?
David – forgive me for switching posts and at the risk of being slapped by Peter, what do you think of the LG 45. it looks an honest car ?
However, my concern would be, that a reasonable road going LG45 car can be purchased for ca. 60k ish. if this car costs around 25-28k, which would be a ball park figure, it may not be worth looking at, given the costs of restoration, what do you think ?
Whilst I love the drop-heads, so many being offered are chopped up saloons, that for now, until I know much more, I will leave them alone!
Just for your info, your first link has an incorrect date:
http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_92301-Lagonda-Rapide-1962.html
This link is for Doctor in Distress, it features LR126, which was the car owned by the producer, Peter Rogers and the date is 1963. The car was sold on 8th March 1963.
Simon
I like the car, very elegant indeed, although lots of work of course to sort out, but you motor in real style….
There is no reason to bleed, use a plaster.
But, seriously, next time you hear of one, buy it, don’t wait for others to jump in.
Best of luck
Simon
Very, very nice indeed…
Why did you let this seemingly gorgeous car slip through your hands, or was it already sold ?
BTW, I really do think a Rapide looks fabulous on wire wheels…
Thank you for posting these links, greatly appreciated.
David – many thanks, will have to wait a little while until I find out, so could still be a surprise still.
After trawling the net today, I believe the middle “mystery” switch maybe for my radio aerial, but stand to be corrected of course ?
I have looked at these comments, interesting.
Lots of theories going the rounds at the moment, with classis car prices.
Away from the heady glory of the Bonham’s once a year sales, there is often a high unsold rate at many of the better auctions.
Hard to make a really useful comparasion with Feltham cars vs Feltham Lagonda’s over the last 10 years say. I would hazard a guess that there simply is not enough data out there to do this for Lagonda’s, perhaps I am wrong and someone has done this exercise already ?
I note that this has been done for many of the AM NP cars, makes for interesing reading on the AMOC site.
I think you are 100% correct, and the shape at the top appears to be most unsual.
Like so many parts on this car, they have been sourced from a variety of places, and were I believe bought in, in small batches.
Not economical for AM to have made them in such a small batch, the tooling and mould cost would have been to high
I can tell you that they are not the same as those in a 1960’s, Jaguar, Ford or Alvis and I suspect that you are pretty spot on, with Mercedes, a good choice. How about the VW Karman Ghia as well or other large volume manufacturers of the period ??
I would use the search term, “door lock button”, that is what they appear to be called. I didn’t know this either when I started searching, best of luck.
Seems to be a lot of Rover P5 parts on this car, but these seem to be equally hard to find as well.
Thank you all for your kind words and many points, greatly appreciated.
Peter hi,
I have located chrome strips for the car at Aston Service in Dorset. They have a good number in stock, and can sell you two pieces, which can be braised together (they come from a Mk2 saloon). Most important, these pieces have the correct end shapes you will need to fit this back onto the car door. I wouldn”t be surpirsed if these are slightly different in size for both doors.
I am assured that both the profile and thickness, and internal channel are the same on both the Mk2 dhc and the 4-door saloon.
I can also offer a solution of how to refit them back onto the car body. As you may know there is an internal slot running the entire length of the chrome strip, you can possibly use a fitting similar to this .
I think you will understand what I mean. If you don’t like this approach, you can also use bolts with a square head and chamfered shoulders, which can be slid into each section prior to brasing. These will protude throught the door frame and can be secured in position behind the door card.
I have a spare strip here where they have used a mixture of the two approaches.
Simon
Would not like to get violent, but I think we have 100% agreement here, well that is good!
I think then given the price of good DB2 and DB mk3 dhcs, there is plenty more scope for them to rise, since the Mk 2 cars are pretty rare.
I have noted the same problem with the Feltham cars in 2011. But this years bunch were less than impressive, noted one had a Vauxhall engine and gear-box
Tim fyi, normally Bonham’s have a bp of 25%, but on cars it is 15% plus VAT
So the total price paid with bp was ?77,660
So my estimate of hammer price, which I guessed for this car would be 70k, was spot on.
You shouldn’t confuse the two, as a seasoned auction buyer, I always look at the hammer price, for the simple reason, so many auctions have different buyers premium today. But you are correct, that is nearly 80k total for this car.
For a right car I had suggested 90-95K+ premium, this would bring the car up total price to well over 105-110k, anything above this a is boon for those of use who own Mk2 dhc’s…
I think we agree with all aspects of the Mk 2 3.0 litre…..