{"id":94461,"date":"2022-03-24T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/aston-martin-lagonda-series-1\/"},"modified":"2022-04-04T08:52:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T08:52:00","slug":"aston-martin-lagonda-series-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/aston-martin-lagonda-series-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Martin Lagonda Series 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

David Brown was an enviable entrepreneur. In 1947, he first took over the sports car company Aston Martin. A second car manufacturer, Lagonda, followed shortly afterwards. He merged the two brands into a joint construction, which briefly put an end to Lagonda’s vehicle production. Under the new management, the brand finally concentrated on dignified luxury cars from 1948, while Aston Martin produced sports cars. After around 800 cars built in ten years, David Brown ended Lagonda’s activities as an independent brand. Using technology from Aston Martin, the Lagonda Rapide was the final model between 1961 and 1964. After only 55 units had been sold, this was also the end of the line. For 1969, however, a four-door sports saloon was built for the company boss, which was given the simple name Lagonda DBS V8. Apparently, David Brown appreciated being chauffeured in a car of his own manufacture. The Aston Martin DBS V8 presented in 1967 served as the basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Difficult times for Aston Martin<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Especially in Great Britain, there were customer enquiries about the Lagonda DBS V8 as early as 1969. Apparently, some interested parties had seen the company boss with his unique car. However, he couldn’t bring himself to put it into series production. One of the reasons for this might have been the financially precarious situation of his company group. From 1971 onwards, this became increasingly clear, even to outsiders. David Brown, who made his fortune mainly by selling agricultural machinery, was making less and less money both there and with his car production. So in 1973 he was forced to sell Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd. to Company Developments, an association of businessmen from Birmingham. They dropped the abbreviation DB from model designations and cut several jobs. Due to an economic crises in the UK, the company placed all its hopes in an insolvency administrator from December 1974. Various changes of ownership followed until the company was finally integrated into the Ford Group in 1987. <\/p>\n\n\n

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