John finds rarities at New Year’s Day gathering…

Amid impossible financial odds in 1974, Aston Martin opportunistically sought to usurp an equally sickly Rolls-Royce with this Lagonda prototype. It arguably saved the company

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Year of manufacture 1980 Recorded mileage 73,997 Asking price £97,750 Vendor Graeme Hunt, Battersea, London; 020 79378487; graemehunt.com WHEN IT WAS NEW Price £53,332 (1979) Max power 220bhp (est) Ma

In 1976 Lancia brought out the Gamma, a luxury saloon that took the place of the Flavia 2000. It had a flat-four engine of 1998cc or 2484cc, but it was withdrawn in 1984, after 15,296 had been built,

As new models become ever more bloated and indistinguishable from one another in their visual appearance, is it any wonder that car designers are inclined to look over their shoulders at their marques