A car I once drove and worked on.........

……………is up for sale at ?8,000,000!! 8O

http://www.jameslist.com/advert/50340

Dug out a picture of it when it was in our workshop circa 1990.



Some history of it here:

http://www.rolls-royce-museum.de/eng/Star_of_India.pdf

Had a serious fire a few years ago but looks as good as ever again. 8)

Its a stunning car 8)

That's a lot of money for any car, actually that's a lot of money full stop.

However a Ferrari 250 GTO went for $28.5M, ?15.7M, so not much chance of it beating that. Very nice but, for me, the Ferrari is 100x nicer.

I suppose I have a soft spot for the Rollers as its what I cut my teeth on to become an engineer.
The quality of the parts made considering they had no computer controlled machines etc. back then is something to savour.

I can imagine the workmanship that went into it, doubt there are many, if any, modern cars that would come close. Just that something like a Ferrari would have a broader appeal. Can't imagine popping down to Tescos in either though!

mkeeley said

I can imagine the workmanship that went into it, doubt there are many, if any, modern cars that would come close. Just that something like a Ferrari would have a broader appeal. Can't imagine popping down to Tescos in either though!

I remember going through a Mcdonald's drive through in a 1908 Silver Ghost!

A Ferrari is more of a boyhood dream. I'd think there was something wrong if my son had a picture of an old Roller on his bedroom wall!

The people that own these types of cars usually have an array of different types of cars anyway. Alot of our customers would turn up in helicopters!

Probably wasn't worth ?millions though. Did your value meal come on fine china with silver cutlery  

Yes Ferrari's and the like are stuff of boyhood dreams, but then most never grow up so still applies!

I guess there wouldn't be anything wrong with having the RR poster, just a tad unsual.

Shame that often these cars are locked away in air conditioned, humidity controlled garages for the rest of their days, they should all be forced to drive them.

kind of off topic but my grandad rolled and wrote off a silver cloud when he was a chaffeur….  

rustys_mk1 said

kind of off topic but my grandad rolled and wrote off a silver cloud when he was a chaffeur….  

Did he bother clocking off or did he just get his coat!?

I think a few test drivers were killed whilst testing these early cars. Remember there was hardly any highway code and bulk of the traffic would have been horse and cart!

Yomp said

I remember going through a Mcdonald's drive through in a 1908 Silver Ghost!

what a mental picture that conjures up!!  
next to the 17yr old in his saxo..  

richievr said

Yomp said

I remember going through a Mcdonald's drive through in a 1908 Silver Ghost!

what a mental picture that conjures up!!  
next to the 17yr old in his saxo..  

I was only 18yrs old myself!

I remember picking my girlfriend up from college in one once.
Great pulling power
Must of worked because she is now my wife!

I owned a 328 GTS for two years.  It was a beautiful car, but people were really odd about it, got cut up, raced, shouted abuse at, various hand signals.  And it was uncomfortable, hot and noisy !  I've found with all the cars I've always "wanted" the reality never lives up to the dream.  Next is a BMW Z3 M Coupe, I personally love them, but people are very "marmite" on them.

I love old Rolls' for the sheer quality of them, the other half is a Rolls & Bentley lover … currently has a 20 / 25 Sedanca, an old S1 convertble, an E-type ( gorgeous but again over-rated & flawed ) and a Bentley Arnage ( which I love becuase it's just BRUTAL ! )

Guess who earns all the money ?