Description Four owners from new; only 32k miles indicated; original DOHC engine; wonderful red leather interior; original number plate; last on the road about 50 years ago; complete car which will make a nice winter project for someone As they never tire of telling you, Yorkshiremen have many fine qualities which set them apart from their soft Southern neighbours, not least an ability to make money out of the most unpromising materials*.

Born in Huddersfield, David Brown grew up amidst the coal and soot of his family’s ancestral foundry business so the adage “Where there’s muck there’s brass” was probably tattooed on his brain as an infant.

And while it would be a gross injustice to call the Lagonda 2.6 ‘muck’, it is certainly true that the real ‘brass’ lay under its bonnet.

Which is why Sir David (he was knighted in 1968) bought Lagonda lock, stock and barrel in 1947, having bought Aston Martin a few months before.

Prior to World War Two, Lagonda was famed for making some of the ...