• One of an estimated 25 LG6 drophead coupés surviving • Ownership history known since 1954 • Long-term ownership from 1989 onwards and well maintained "(The) much improved '4½'...

comes up to expectations...

It is doubtful whether a fast car has ever been made so steady and yet so comfortable.

It is almost uncannily easy to take this car round bends at high speeds and at the same time the insulation offered to passengers is of the highest order." - The Autocar, 17th June 1938.

The Lagonda Motor Company was founded in 1906 in Staines, Middlesex by the American Wilbur Gunn ( 1859-1920 ), a former opera singer who named it after a river near his home town of Springfield, Ohio.

Gunn had started out building motorcycles in the greenhouse at his home in Staines with some success.

He later added tricars to the line-up, one of which, driven by its creator, won the 1905 London to Edinburgh Trial.

Single-cylinder tricars were offered at first, followed by others powered by v-twin engines...