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Apr 12, 2013 5:40 pm
Apr 12, 2013 5:40 pm
Subject: Re: V 12 Bonhams
Its saving grace is that it is a sedanca de ville, so you benefit from drophead motoring without the expense of buying a drophead. Many V12s seem to have covered low mileages. Lagonda Motors almost undoubtedly fitted a new speedo in 1941 (so much more honest than winding the mileometer back!), so the mileage could, just possibly, be correct, back to then at least.
It's a pretty formal car, hardly the daily commute...but of course it could have been, if the company ownership ran to a chauffeur.
Its saving grace is that it is a sedanca de ville, so you benefit from drophead motoring without the expense of buying a drophead. Many V12s seem to have covered low mileages. Lagonda Motors almost undoubtedly fitted a new speedo in 1941 (so much more honest than winding the mileometer back!), so the mileage could, just possibly, be correct, back to then at least.
It's a pretty formal car, hardly the daily commute...but of course it could have been, if the company ownership ran to a chauffeur.