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I wrote about a 1939 Lagonda V12 Drophead Coupé with a factory body designed by in-house stylist Fred Feeley here .  Since I believe design of convertibles is less taxing to a stylist than cars with hard tops with all the possibilities of forms, window shapes, and other rquired deatils, I tend to focus on such cars on this blog.  Therefore, I owe readers something about Lagona V12 Saloon styling to compensate for that post about a convertible. In that post I commented that Feeley's frontal design, the basis for both factory and custom bodies, was more rounded than, say, the angularity of Rolls-Royces.  Which made me wonder if there were examples of Logonda V12s with angular bodies and how such bodies might relate to the rounded frontal design.  It happens that the Freestone & Webb coachbuilding firm (brief Wikipedia entry here ) built some "razor-edge" bodies (F&W initiated that style) on V12 Lagondas.  Some these are shown below. Gallery First, three i...

Perhaps England's outstanding pre- World War 2 sporting luxury car was the Lagonda V12.  Frontal styling by Frank Feeley was strong, but rounded, unlike the angular Rolls-Royce motif.  Therefore, although some "razor edge" bodies appeared on V12 Logondas, the usual styling solution was to maintain curves. The present post presents a walkaround set of views of a 1939 Drophead Coupé sporting a factory-built body designed by Feeley.  Images are via Bonhams, who put the car up for auction in 2016.  Bonhams' web page dealing with that car is here . Some background on the V12 Loganda from Bonhams: "1935 had brought bankruptcy and rescue for Lagonda, the benefactor being a young solicitor named Alan Good. Good reorganized the company and recruited W. O. Bentley, who by then was disillusioned with life at Rolls-Royce which had acquired Bentley in 1931. Bentley succeeded in refining the muscular, Meadows-engined Lagondas while working on a vastly more-advanced design th...