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#1 2007-03-14 13:26:00
- Marc Grayson
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A London Adventure
I posted this article a while ago, not sure where, but it's worth re-posting...
http://www.cosmos-club.org/web/journals/2002/muromcew.html
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#2 2007-03-14 17:48:25
- richt
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Re: A London Adventure
Wonderful story. I think it's so good it should be posted every six months so nobody misses it.
#3 2007-03-14 20:21:15
- tom222222
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Re: A London Adventure
I had a client some years ago who went on the quest for the Rolls Royce of his dream years. My age, but I think the car dated from the 30s(some neighbor owned it and left everyone in the neighborhood in awe) (I saw the car, in the end). He lusted after it and findly found the Rolls of the appropriate vintage and when he checked the history he found out it was the same damn car. The back was luxe, the front was not, very functional, but strictly made for the driver. I think a 1940s vintage you might need the driver as well as the car. Those Rolls, they were not meant to be driven by the owner. They were horseless carriages in more ways than one.
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#4 2007-03-14 20:55:41
- Twin Six
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Re: A London Adventure
Tom, the body style you are describing is a laudalet, in which the back seat passengers are under a roof, while the driver is in the open.
I think it's rather humorous that the author mistakenly refers to the Silver Wraith as a Silver Wreath.
My grandfather loved to tell the story of how at one car show his '32 Packard Twin Six was parked next to a Rolls of the same vintage, and a group of awestruck people gathered around the Rolls. They asked the owner to start it up so they could admire the famous quietness of the Rolls engine. They oohed and aahed as it clattered to life (in my grandfather's biased description, of course, it was only slightly less noisy than the engine room on the Titanic). Then the crowd turned to my grandfather's Packard and asked him to start it up for a comparison. "It's been running the whole time," he replied.
#5 2007-03-14 21:03:20
- tom222222
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Re: A London Adventure
Yeah, the driver I think might have had some kind of cover but the passengers were in a glass enclosure with some sort of telephone to communicate with the front. The Packards may have been as good but the saying was"Ford and the world Ford's with you; Rolls and you Rolls alone" (well, you do need that chauffeur).
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#6 2007-03-15 07:13:10
- Tony Ventresca
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Re: A London Adventure
The Rolls reputation is often overstated. They have been crap for a long time. Charming, but crap.
Panel gaps big enough for fingers, smells, massive oil leaks, etc.
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