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Baujahr1938
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AutomobiltypLimousine
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LenkungLenkung rechts
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ZustandGebraucht
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Markenfarbe außenBlack/Maroon
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InnenfarbeSonstige
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Standort
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AußenfarbeSonstige
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GetriebeManuell
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Antrieb2wd
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KraftstoffPetrol
Beschreibung
Coys Auction - The Spirit of Motor Cars
Ascot Racecourse,
Ascot,
Berkshire SL5 7JX
Saturday 4th October 2008
Motor Cars at 15:00
After W.O. Bentley was forced to sell his company to Rolls-Royce, he was retained as a consultant to supervise a new range of sporting cars based on Rolls-Royce components. As soon as he was free from that obligation in 1935, his services were snapped up by Lagonda. In retrospect, it was the only move Bentley could make. Lagonda made cars his way, without compromise. In fact, Lagonda had emerged as the spiritual heir to Bentley Motors before W.O. joined as technical director. Its cars embodied all the qualities which had made Bentleys so desirable and, in 1935, it became only the second British maker, after Bentley, to take an outright win at Le Mans. There is no better illustration of the status that Lagonda enjoyed in the 1930s than that Rolls-Royce had bid for the company when it suffered financial probl