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Nov 09, 2012 3:53 pm
Nov 09, 2012 3:53 pm
Subject: Re: M45 Saloon "Olympia Exhibition Car"
Hi Peter,
You echo my sentiments, I've yet to see an alternative coachbuilder's body that competes with Lagonda's (ie Frank Feeley's) own. This one is interesting but perhaps too fussy for my taste.
That said, I quite like the V12 tourer by (I think) Vanden Plas, which I believe still survives in America, much better than Lagonda's unsurprisingly rare tourer offering on the V12/LG6 chassis.
But of course they were different times. The non-Lagonda coachwork purchaser presumably wanted, perhaps for that very reason, something different to the factory offerings. That still doesn't explain why some truly gruesome and staid formal bodies were built on one of the period's most advanced and fastest chassis!
Laurence
Hi Peter,
You echo my sentiments, I've yet to see an alternative coachbuilder's body that competes with Lagonda's (ie Frank Feeley's) own. This one is interesting but perhaps too fussy for my taste.
That said, I quite like the V12 tourer by (I think) Vanden Plas, which I believe still survives in America, much better than Lagonda's unsurprisingly rare tourer offering on the V12/LG6 chassis.
But of course they were different times. The non-Lagonda coachwork purchaser presumably wanted, perhaps for that very reason, something different to the factory offerings. That still doesn't explain why some truly gruesome and staid formal bodies were built on one of the period's most advanced and fastest chassis!
Laurence