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Mar 29, 2011 12:18 pm
Mar 29, 2011 12:18 pm
Subject: Re: BARN FINDS : Will they continue to appear ?
Sadly, I think the car featured in the H&H auction is destined to be yet another Le Mans replica and no doubt the VSCC will allow it to race as such.
Here is one that used to belong to somebody I knew at work in the late 1960's. He used it as regular transport and then put it away in a garage to restore later. He never did. This is a photo taken around 2000 with me beside it.
It is now beautifully restored and if the registration number looks familiar, it featured on the front cover of the Summer 2010 Lagonda Club magazine.
By the way, I believe that early LG45 saloons were not designed by Frank Feely, but Walter Buckingham. These have the designation "SB1" which is presumably "First Series Saloon Body". I understand that the SB1 body was derived from the short-lived M45A saloon which was revived after the bankruptcy as the LG45.
"NJ" is a very early LG - chassis number 12002, though interestingly it had a Sanction 2 engine - so perhaps it was a factory demonstrator. In comparison, the one featured in the H&H auction is chassis number 12014 and has a Sanction 1 engine.
I will be interested to see its fate.
Colin M34
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Sadly, I think the car featured in the H&H auction is destined to be yet another Le Mans replica and no doubt the VSCC will allow it to race as such.
Here is one that used to belong to somebody I knew at work in the late 1960's. He used it as regular transport and then put it away in a garage to restore later. He never did. This is a photo taken around 2000 with me beside it.
It is now beautifully restored and if the registration number looks familiar, it featured on the front cover of the Summer 2010 Lagonda Club magazine.
By the way, I believe that early LG45 saloons were not designed by Frank Feely, but Walter Buckingham. These have the designation "SB1" which is presumably "First Series Saloon Body". I understand that the SB1 body was derived from the short-lived M45A saloon which was revived after the bankruptcy as the LG45.
"NJ" is a very early LG - chassis number 12002, though interestingly it had a Sanction 2 engine - so perhaps it was a factory demonstrator. In comparison, the one featured in the H&H auction is chassis number 12014 and has a Sanction 1 engine.
I will be interested to see its fate.
Colin M34
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