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[Vrije]

I had the idea of once building "this Lagonda shooting brake for some
10 years but never came to it
Last year I thought it's time, so out came the side grinder and 059 ,
which I owned for some 12 years ,got cut



Firstly at casual pace but from Jan this year at full throttle (deadline being
the benelux minimeeting / taking up to over 40 hours a week after daily work) getting extra support and food from Margie!!(must be the next co-driver/ms lagonda
Have to fill in the little this and thats but phisically made it in time.
Wanted to have a clean "as Bill Towns would done it" look and function
only limited to some dimentions of donor parts as roof and tail glass.






Take a look for yourself, when finished whole set of pics wil be "picasa-ed"





Harry

[Star500E]

Harry

This is really amazing! There are at least one other shooting brake of which I am aware, but it lacks the thoroughly modern panorama roof panel that yours has. Have yo had to make any changes under the car, or are the changes solely top-side?

[Vrije]

Dan,

Basically the panorama is there because of this fact.
"Lagonda's have a rear roof glass panel "

First idea was to put 2 in (one in the middle of a wayyyy long roof
looks a bit silly) .
When I sold one of my spares to David the dime started to roll as we say.

It is a donor part, from who? that's the cool questionl

And no , no additional strenghtening as it is still an undisturbed box section.

Harry

[Star500E]

Hi Harry

I hear you loud and clear there! Still, your implementation of that glass panel is really impressive. Lately, a lot of car manufacturers are doing Pano-roofs, and they definitely work to make interiors feeling more airy.

Equally so, and I just noticed this, is just how authentic you are to the original design. Namely, it appears you re-used the C-pillars as D-pillars, moving the backlight with them, and used fixed door windows as the far rear windows. Am I right to assume that the c-pillars were originally B-pillars?

Can't wait to see what you do with the interior...

grooete van een ander Nederlander in Boston

[Vrije]

Yo Dan, close but not entirely correct.
The "D" is not the old one but it uses the fuel flap and back compartment
of it. see pic as it is a little longer.



Rear side glass is custom made for me after a cardboard template for measurement and a piece of wood for it's curve setting me back $ 200 a piece
And have the rear door surround de-radiused to follow the straight line gutter

Greetzz from clog country

Harry