In the disco days of the 1970s, even supercars were cocaine-thin. Meet
the Aston Martin Lagonda, a four-door exotic that lived on dinner mints
and hot water. Designed by AM penman William Towns — undoubtedly wearing
a very large cravat at the time — the Lagonda was as beautiful a car as
ever resembled a pencil box. Mechanically, it was a catastrophe, Aston
Martin's Dunkirk. The company decided to build the Lagonda with a brace
of cutting-edge, computer-driven electronics and cathode-ray displays,
which would have been very impressive if any of them ever worked. NASA
couldn't have built this car, much less the heirs to Joseph Lucas, the
British electronics' famous "Prince of Darkness." Still, I'd kill to
have one of these cars, and the O-scope and multi-meter to fix it.
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