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Origins
The LG6 of 1937 carried Lagonda's proven 4.5-litre Meadows six into a new chassis with independent torsion-bar front suspension and hydraulic brakes — W.O. Bentley's engineering team modernising the car that had won Le Mans in 1935. It was magnificent: fast, dignified, beautifully bodied by the factory in saloon and drophead forms. Its misfortune was the company it kept, for in the next room Bentley was finishing his masterpiece, the V12, which took the headlines, the show stands and most of the wealthy customers. Perhaps 85 LG6s were built before war stopped everything in 1940. Collectors have long since corrected the imbalance of attention: the LG6 offers most of the V12's grandeur with half its complexity, and stands as the last flowering of the great Meadows-engined line.
1937 Lagonda LG6 · Andrew Bone from Weymouth, England · CC BY 2.0
