How big are your cajones?!
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ClaphamGT3

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12,223 posts

272 months

Monday 15th April 2013
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I cannot begin to tell you how tempting this is;

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Aston-Martin-Lagonda-/14...

So wrong and yet, somehow, so right!

V8 FOU

3,023 posts

176 months

Monday 15th April 2013
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Noooooo......
Yuk yuk yuk. Been in storage for 2005 years he says too.....

So very,very wrong.....

The Surveyor

7,624 posts

266 months

Monday 15th April 2013
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Love it, so very wrong indeed but it has so much presence..... Love it thumbup

andyps

7,819 posts

311 months

Tuesday 16th April 2013
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Not wrong at all, get it bought and back on the road!

benjj

6,787 posts

192 months

Tuesday 16th April 2013
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Absolutely love them. My father had one as I was finishing primary school, loved jumping around in the back of it, so plush.

mikey77

707 posts

217 months

Tuesday 16th April 2013
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There's a scrappy near here in deepest rural France who has one in a shed on the site.
If I didn't already have the 6 litre XJS I think I would try the size of my cojones...

Martin 480 Turbo

707 posts

216 months

Tuesday 16th April 2013
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"got some wood?" Lol "cajones", lol

MitchT

17,114 posts

238 months

Tuesday 16th April 2013
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I would. But only if I had very deep pockets!

TurboBlue

686 posts

192 months

Tuesday 16th April 2013
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I saw this Lagonda on eBay and I was going to start exactly the same thread. Personally, I don't have anywhere near enough money to resolve this but I've always been smitten by the early pre-facelift styling since I saw a black one at the entrance to the Beaulieu Motor Museum when I was a teenager. The factory even did a turbocharged prototype of this back when the Bulldog was about so you know what to do.

ClaphamGT3

Original Poster:

12,223 posts

272 months

Tuesday 16th April 2013
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Oh f*ck it - you're a long time dead.

I think the plan will be to get it mechanically/structurally bang-on with as little cosmetic fettling as I can get away with.

See - in my mind I've bought the b*stard already smile

RobinSherwood

336 posts

244 months

Tuesday 16th April 2013
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ClaphamGT3 said:
Oh f*ck it - you're a long time dead.

I think the plan will be to get it mechanically/structurally bang-on with as little cosmetic fettling as I can get away with.

See - in my mind I've bought the b*stard already smile
Hi there,

We looked closely into buying one of these in the 90's at the time we had run a succession of RR Silver Shadows.

I don't remember all the bits and pieces I learnt at the time but in case you didn't know from the pictures that car is early enough that it has fixed rear windows which would also mean the 'moon roof' is fixed too. This may not bother you but that means you are reliant therefore on ventilation from the front windows and making sure the aircon works properly. Also as well as the boot being quite shallow the rear lights are repeated on the underside of the bootlid which robs yet more space if you wanted to take luggage for 4 etc.,..

Don't get me wrong I love them but at the time I was tasked with finding a regular driver for my dad but head ruled heart and we ended up buying what was at the time probably the best Silver Shadow II in the UK.

I am not trying to put you off it is just I know from experience not many people realise about the fixed windows and other foibles.

HTH

Robin

Du1point8

22,853 posts

221 months

Tuesday 16th April 2013
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Didnt someone come on here and show some of the bills that they had for one?

seemed to remember it being into the 6 figures and this was daily running, not a restoration.

rumple

14,957 posts

180 months

Tuesday 16th April 2013
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Martin 480 Turbo said:


"got some wood?" Lol "cajones", lol
Isn't that a Cajon Drum?

RobinSherwood

336 posts

244 months

Tuesday 16th April 2013
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Sorry just to put my previous comments into perspective I should have said in my first post to put this into context I have owned a car since 1998 that takes the proverbial cajones to own. A Maserati Bora.......

S0 What

3,358 posts

201 months

Tuesday 16th April 2013
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How big are your cajones?
which one? right or left, they differ quite a lot laugh
i owuldn't touch it with yours but as i dont have to do the suffering ,,, go for it, your dead an awfully long time and alive for relatively short time wink

sim16v

2,177 posts

230 months

Tuesday 16th April 2013
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eek


MX7

7,902 posts

203 months

Wednesday 17th April 2013
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RobinSherwood said:
fixed rear windows
I never knew that.

It would be a great car to buy, but I think you'd need a lot more than the purchase price to run it. I'm not brave enough.

slevin911

652 posts

205 months

Wednesday 17th April 2013
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Well if you are going to Ireland how about this?
http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/vintagecars/45971...

thegreenhell

23,694 posts

248 months

Wednesday 17th April 2013
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sim16v said:
eek

Yours?