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    For $70,000- It’s a Deadman’s Lagonda, Who Could Ask For More?

    The All-American Royale of Bongo from Congo
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    06/17/09

    In reply to For $70,000- It’s a Deadman’s Lagonda, Who Could Ask For More?
    It looks like a donk.


    Pass the glass.

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    06/17/09

    In reply to For $70,000- It’s a Deadman’s Lagonda, Who Could Ask For More?
    Not only is the spirit of Bongo present, but also the spirit of Joe Lucas. I mean, if the Toronado, Riviera and Reatta's interpretations of "TV dashboards" were troublesome, imagine what they were like when touched by the Prince of Darkness.


    Pass the pipe.

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    06/17/09

    In reply to For $70,000- It’s a Deadman’s Lagonda, Who Could Ask For More?
    If you'd take a zero off the price I'd say "Nice Price", but $70,000? I'd say crack pipe with a nitrous injector. Woohoo!!!
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    06/17/09

    In reply to For $70,000- It’s a Deadman’s Lagonda, Who Could Ask For More?
    Love the Lagonda, but the price is just out of this world.
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    06/17/09

    In reply to For $70,000- It’s a Deadman’s Lagonda, Who Could Ask For More?
    Somewhere in that body is a Buick LeSabre or Park Avenue. And it wants out.


    Nice price. This car has the heart of a lion, baby. Just not, you know, lion skin upholstery.

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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    06/17/09

    @1990_Ford_Tempo_GL: But does it have the wings of a bat, as well?
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    06/17/09

    In reply to For $70,000- It’s a Deadman’s Lagonda, Who Could Ask For More?
    Um, no thanks, but what about that red Ferrari in the background?
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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    06/17/09

    In reply to For $70,000- It’s a Deadman’s Lagonda, Who Could Ask For More?
    I like it. Besides, it's 24 years old, getting it into the US will become MUCH easier next year. As for the psychedelic car in the background, isn't it a bit large for a Trabi?
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    Image of X3SoB X3SoB
    06/17/09

    In reply to For $70,000- It’s a Deadman’s Lagonda, Who Could Ask For More?
    Is that a psychadelic Trabant parked next to that Shelby Cobra?
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    Image of Paul Y. can't get in the club; gotta parking lot pimp Paul Y. can't get in the club; gotta parking lot pimp
    06/17/09

    @X5SoB, Obsesse...: That does appear to be a Trabant art car! The people selling this Lagonda want THIRTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR IT. I suspect everything they sell is worthy of the question, "Nice Price or Crack Pipe?"
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    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    06/17/09

    In reply to For $70,000- It’s a Deadman’s Lagonda, Who Could Ask For More?
    He was only 4'11"? That dude was an elf, man.


    Oh, and crack pipe. You'll need another $70,000 worth of excedrin to get over the headaches you'll get from repairing the dash electrics.

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    Image of Paul Y. can't get in the club; gotta parking lot pimp Paul Y. can't get in the club; gotta parking lot pimp
    06/17/09

    @Alfisted: One might even describe a man that small as spry.
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    06/17/09

    In reply to For $70,000- It’s a Deadman’s Lagonda, Who Could Ask For More?
    Sure, it's expensive, but what provenance! Anything owned by a tin-pot dictator is awesome.


    Nice price.

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    06/17/09

    In reply to For $70,000- It’s a Deadman’s Lagonda, Who Could Ask For More?
    DEAREST SIR,


    I write in greatest of HOPE to you from AFRICAN NATION of GABON with a business opportunity of great importance and vigor for you. In recent weeks has the noted leader of our country OMAR BONGO sadly passed on leaving in trust his fortune of ONE ASTON MARTIN LAGONDA in my possession which I now am wishing to remove from the country of France to America. I seek a CERTIFIED SHIPPING AGENT for this car in the sum of SEVENTY THOUSAND US DOLLARS of which you will be permitted to keep the car and all spare parts (parts of the car which have fallen off the car) and all titles of the car (Ownership, Roadworthiness, Ugliest Abomination Ever Certificate). Please at your earliest convenience deposit the sum of SEVENTY THOUSAND US DOLLARS into my Western Union account so that we may share in the pleasure of pushing this magnificent white elephant up your driveway, following which we may smoke a ceremonial PIPE OF FINEST CRACK to seal our arrangement.


    Yours fiscally,


    MBANWE "FOUROHONE" McSWINDLER

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    06/17/09

    @Jamesface: I was waiting for that, hoping someone else would do it so's I wouldn't have to. Heart click for you, sir!
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    06/17/09

    @Jamesface: The "PIPE OF FINEST CRACK" pushed me over the edge.
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    Image of blueplate blueplate
    06/17/09

    In reply to For $70,000- It’s a Deadman’s Lagonda, Who Could Ask For More?
    Oh, ye gods, finally, lit-up pictures of the CRT dash system.


    That tachometer is all kinds of awesome, like the Atari 2600 to the power of four wheels.


    Nice price, but only for $70,000 of someone else's money.

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    06/17/09

    @blueplate: And the switches on the dash have "fake digital readout font". As if the car's on-board computer can suddenly make the switches do Something Else!! Nice price for sure.


    And.. separate switches for the left and right fuel tanks? And.. an electric bonnet (hood) switch.. for easy access? So many questions.

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    06/17/09

    @blueplate: On the one hand, I'm not sure an electric hood switch could be any more of a pain than pulling what amounts to a bicycle shifter cable. On the other hand, it's British and thus you won't be able to open the hood to put out the fire.
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    06/17/09

    In reply to For $70,000- It’s a Deadman’s Lagonda, Who Could Ask For More?
    This is totally a nice price car.


    All we have to do is conjure up the right spirits. Grease up your Ouija boards! Ready?


    It belonged to an African ruler who is now dead.
    It was built by a coachbuilder who should've been dead by the time the car was made.
    It can be fabulously customized by a star whose career is dead.


    Call up Bud Cort! We gots to make ourselves one awesome rectilinear hearse!

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    Image of mytdawg mytdawg
    06/17/09

    In reply to For $70,000- It’s a Deadman’s Lagonda, Who Could Ask For More?
    3 CRT dash? Sounds like weird science to me. But if it helps you get wild sex in the working class then it's a nice price.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    06/17/09

    In reply to For $70,000- It’s a Deadman’s Lagonda, Who Could Ask For More?
    OINGO BOINGO!


    I vote nice price for Graverobber.


    This long-nosed shark with the tiny face and Slushomatic? No thanks.

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