Aston Martin Lagonda Shooting Brake

This rare custom beauty was found by the fine folks at bringatrailer.com. If you've never visited their site before, plan on spending some time there, it's great! At approx. $425,000 USD, I'd be hesitant to let the kids loose on the back seat, but what a neat transformation. There is a case to be made for the extended roof balancing out some of the donor cars awkwardness. Click the button below to read what bring-a-trailer has to say about this sweet ride. 

A quick google search proves that, though never in-house, Aston-Martin has quite the history of shooting brakes... 

Lagonda was a famous British producer of sports cars, which got acquired by David Brown in 1947, who was also the owner of Aston Martin at the time. Until 1964, David Brown built 3 different Saloon models with Aston Martin mechanicals, which were sold under the Lagonda name. 

In 1974, Aston Martin reactivated the Lagonda name for a 4-door Saloon project to complete the Company’s model range. However, Lagonda was now just a model designation for this Aston Martin Limousine. 

The first seven Aston Martin Lagonda built were still based on the Aston Martin V8 model. For the second series, built from 1976 onwards, the design was radically changed and broke with all previous designs used by Aston Martin and Lagonda. William Towns was responsible for the exciting, low and wedge-shaped coachwork which featured large smooth surfaces. Except for the wheel arches, the car’s design did not have any curves at all. The car’s technical features and equipment were also ahead of their time. There were LED instead of the traditional instruments and gauges, sensor operated switches and even a Head-Up-Display. 

In total, only 652 cars were built in 4 Series, of which only 7 cars were of the first and 75 cars of the third series, which was only built in 1986/87. Production ended in 1990. 

This unique Aston Martin Shooting Brake was designed and built by the renowned Swiss Aston Martin Heritage Specialist Roos Engineering Ltd., with the official sanction of Aston Martin. The car was built between 1996 and 1999 upon a customers request, based on a third series 1987 Aston Martin Lagonda. Special features include rear parking sensors, a DVD System for the rear passengers, as well as a 4-speed automatic gearbox, modified from the original 3-speed unit. Regularly serviced by Roos Engineering the car is in outstanding, truly magnificent condition throughout, with only 39’000 original kilometers.