Show whole topic Apr 05, 2012 6:52 pm
TVJL Offline
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Location: London


Subject: Re: DB 3-Litre
Simon,

I agree with some of your points but, with all due respect, disagree with others. But, perhaps your researches have turned up information of which i am unaware. I'd be very interested to hear more of what you may have found.

For myself, I haven't come across anyone more keen to buy a 2 door saloon than, say, a 4 door Mark 2 car. It does seem to be a fact that more of the 2 door cars are in the hands of LC members who, naturally, have lavished care upon their cars and prefer them over other options. However, I do not regard the LC as (yet) the natural home of DB Lagonda owners (sad to say, perhaps, but still true in my view). By the way, I know of only one drop head created in recent years and that dreadful car was created from two 4 door cars (and deservedly it has stubbornly failed to sell in the hands of multiple traders)

Equally, I haven't seen any 'nice condition' saloons in the kind of price bracket you speak of in recent years. A few really good cars have changed hands - mostly for circa double the upper bracket you mention. This is precisely because so many of the 4 door cars were savaged as you suggest. The 2 door cars were also culled, but not to quite the same degree - for two reasons. One is the aforesaid tendency in past years for LC members to prefer (and therefore save) the 2 door cars. The other is that the 4 door Mark 2 cars have floor change boxes and were more plentiful.

I am very much aware of the story behind the DB Lagonda graveyard in 1990s. I'm afraid to say that such was not the finest hour of some of the people concerned. All of this is just one of the reasons why I have been less than impressed by the conduct of some of the so-called aficionados of the post-war Lagondas in the LC. I'd better leave my commentary there, I think.

Put shortly, I stand by estimation of the way things are currently.

The 3 litre DHCs have had a strong following for some time now, and that is and has been reflected in the sums achieved in sales etc.. By the way, if you can find a 'very good' DHC at £50k these days (as you state) you are a better man than I, Gunga Din.

Good 2 and 4 door cars are worth more or less the same sort of sum (see my earlier comments). The good / very good cars that come on the market least often are to my knowledge, as I've said before, the 4 door Mark 2 saloons. And, just watch the prices soar when they do appear.

Regards,

Tim