Lagonda!!!

[JPSmit]

was on a wine tour today with SWMBO - and stopped for lunch, restaurant was closed for a wedding but this was parked outside. We went down the road for lunch and 15 minutes later it toddled by. BTW Toddled describes perfectly what it was doing.

 

[aeronca65t]

A real beauty! And probably rare as hen's teeth in N. America.

Most of us know Lagonda with its connection to Aston-Martin.

But I couldn't remember where the name "Lagonda" came from. It surely doesn't sound British and I knew it was sort of an interesting story. So I looked it up:

The guy who started Lagonda (Wilbur Gunn) was an American opera singer.
He started the company in the UK (building motorcycles) but named it after the Lagonda Creek in Ohio, USA.

 

[waltesefalcon]

Beautiful old car.

Nial, thanks for the history lesson. I never would have guessed that Lagonda was named for a creek in Ohio, I'd have figured it was something exotic too.

 

[HealeyRick]

Nial,

That Lagonda is beautiful. A real presence. Thanks for posting.

 

[Roger]

This Lagonda is a 4.5 litre TT Replica in the farmyard of my late parents' home in Gloucestershire. A car very similar to this won the 1935 le Mans 24 hour race.