What's this?

[tractorman]

Yes, I was careful to follow John's instructions and post a tractor-related vehicle. I thought the Lagonda also had an air of the Mk2 Jag, so there was enough to confuse the casual observer!

I did thing of posting this one, a Lagonda Vignale, but I doubt anyone has ever seen a real one:



An amusing story in Herbert Ashfield's "memoirs" was about how David Brown (later Sir David) had seen some tractor firm fit an engine from their car range (it may even have been Ferguson with the Standard engine) and "set" the Lagonda boys on the task of reworking one of their engines to power a DB tractor. The Lagonda people were having severe problems getting a "high revving" and powerful engine to produce torque at low revs (tractors don't tend to rev over 2000 RPM). Mr Ashfield (David Brown Tractors chief engineer) suggested it was like asking a racehorse to pull a plough. "Mr Brown" then realised why the engine was unsuitable!

(note the David Brown that built tractors was grandson of David Brown that formed the gear company - and had to set up the tractor division with little or no support from his father or grandfather)

I expect John now will produce something devious for us to identify - like a Wolseley six from a picture of a hydrolastic pipe!

[Mitsuru]

You never know it could be another tractor inspired post such as a jenson

[JPB]

....something devious for us to identify - like a Wolseley six from a picture of a hydrolastic pipe!

Hmm, I'll save that idea and use it in a few years time!

No, nothing so devious, the following image shows a car from a fairly straightforward viewpoint:



Aron, you'll probably get this one.

[TerryG]

That's an interesting looking thing. You have to love a car with popup headlamps but the designer of that has put "normal" ones on just in case the popup ones break

[arceye]

I really shouldn't say just how much that reminds me of a Porsche 924 our friend called round with tonight That has its main beams low down and pop ups too, I wonder if its related somehow

[Mitsuru]

The badge because it is at an angle makes it easy for it to be mistaken for possibly that of
Toyota but John had dropped too much of a hint for me as I had that old badge off the car
before it was scraped and as a pendulum on a wall clock.

This perticular cars rear.



It's an fso Ogar

[JPB]

Yes, it took me back as well. Back to the car whose pushrods had to be straightened as a matter of routine at every service, the car whose radio regularly fell out and landed on the floor before I fitted a proper wooden dash from an Italian 125.

RIP D641WTF

Yeah, I figured that you'd get that. Your turn man, make it a tough one.

[Mitsuru]

for more details on the fso
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate ... annel%3Dsb

How about this

[JPB]

Arkady Dimitrievich Babitsh, COME ON DOWN!

That was, IMHO, one of Billy Joel's better tunes.

[Mitsuru]

John is right it is the Leningrad was powered by a 3.5-litre 90-hp engine.
(sorry for delay in reply blooming tablet is hit and miss today)