This beautiful Lagonda stolen by Prince Bernhard?

Posted on 13-06-2016 at 20:22 by CasperH – 58 Comments”

Soon this beautiful car at the Concours d’elegance in Apeldoorn, the netherlands exhibited. But this car of Prince Bernhard, is not mentioned. Bernhard would the car during the liberation of the Second world War unlawfully obtained.

There are about 85 of these cars made and at the time, took a wagon more than a Rolls Royce. This Lagonda LG6 Drophead Coupé ‘Rapide’ of the late Prince Bernhard Von Lippe Bisterfeld has chassis number 12341. The Lagonda LG6 Drophead Coupe is equipped with a 4.4-litre six-cylinder engine. The Lagonda of Prince Philip may not even be in the shadow of this beautiful car of Bernhard. But he was actually the Prince Von Lippe Bisterfeld?

In 1938 bought a successful architect (mr. Jan Frederik van Erven Dorens) of the car Lagonda, and he knew him to be remarkably during the war out of the hands of the Germans. Bizarrely enough, however, the staff of Prince Bernhard with the Lagonda to go. On archives from march, 1945, the Prince in the car to see, in a liberated village in Limburg. Later, it was general Montgomery as a hero through the streets of Amsterdam was after the liberation, in the car of Van Erven Dorens. The architect would the car even once look back, as the staff of Prince Bernhard, the car for sale for 5000 guilders. That refuses to Van Erven Dorens, and he accuses the prince of theft. Had Van Erven Dorens 13.200 guilders for the car paid, at that time a huge sum of money.

Robin, the grandson of the architect, went 65 years later looking for the car, and knew him found. There he made a documentary about that by the NPS in 2004 was broadcast. This won the grandson of a even a price of €125,000 euros. A trailer of the documentary can be viewed here.

At the Concours d’elegance in Apeldoorn, the netherlands (2 & 3 July at the Palace ‘het Loo’) will be the much talked about, but above all beautiful Lagonda for the first time, be shown to the public.

Gallery: Lagonda LG6 Drophead Coupe Prince Bernhard

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