Louise2cv Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 Djimbob, Google "icon Rolls Royce" and hit the "news" tab. Videos there. I tried that after my original Google brought me back here. djimbob, Cheggers, mk2_craig and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheggers Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 Thanks Louise, I was beginning to think I’d need the Rosetta Stone to make sense of this one Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk alcyonecorporation and chodweaver 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exiled_Tat_Gatherer Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 I hate to say it - but I modify my classics sometimes (shoot me now I know)...... yes, I want faster, or lower, or stopping better - but NO I don't want a fucking modern. I want the proper wood interior, the styling from the 60's or 70's and the general look n feel of the car I like. The fact I want to utilise improvements in anything/everything since the original was developed is the core of life in general....... when did you upgrade your car/phone/laptop/PC etc.... Jesus. 1. The person/people who can commission the build of any car to THEIR spec (wouldn't you if you had the cash and an 'itch' you needed scratching) will have the funds to pay for anything/everything fixed afterwards should it fail. 2. The garages commisioning specialised parts - will usually get a few of them made or at least have the specs and jigs kept for future use/reference..... 3. Any and EVERY retro car show I've watched has done exactly the same things, upgrade, farm out fabrication (not of everything sometimes) and assembled in kit form..... - how many times have we seen the teams scratching their heads over changing the parts they have as they don't fit together properly..... You cannot watch any retro-modification type show and expect anything else - what did you seriously think was going to be the result? dome and bunglebus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheggers Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 I like it Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk chaseracer and STUNO 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 Needs a supercharger. The Reverend Bluejeans, chaseracer, Cheggers and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMC Rebel Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 I like this thread, but 90% of it has passed me by. I am not complaining, just making a pointless observation. Banger Kenny 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mk2_craig Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 What's a Septic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heidel_Kakao Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 What's a Septic?Septic Tank - Yank AKA an American. Cockney rhyming slang but it confused me for ages. flat4alfa and mk2_craig 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inspector Morose Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 Is it this one? or this one? No, hang on. I think I've got it now. This one? No. Not right either. How about this one? No? Oh, hang on. It's the wrong model, you say? Try this one then. Surely it's this one. Woe betide the one who dares sully the Rolls Royce name by modifying it. Eh? dome, Supernaut, cms206 and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alcyonecorporation Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 I hate to say it - but I modify my classics sometimes (shoot me now I know)...... yes, I want faster, or lower, or stopping better - but NO I don't want a fucking modern. I want the proper wood interior, the styling from the 60's or 70's and the general look n feel of the car I like. The fact I want to utilise improvements in anything/everything since the original was developed is the core of life in general....... when did you upgrade your car/phone/laptop/PC etc.... Jesus. 1. The person/people who can commission the build of any car to THEIR spec (wouldn't you if you had the cash and an 'itch' you needed scratching) will have the funds to pay for anything/everything fixed afterwards should it fail. 2. The garages commisioning specialised parts - will usually get a few of them made or at least have the specs and jigs kept for future use/reference..... 3. Any and EVERY retro car show I've watched has done exactly the same things, upgrade, farm out fabrication (not of everything sometimes) and assembled in kit form..... - how many times have we seen the teams scratching their heads over changing the parts they have as they don't fit together properly..... You cannot watch any retro-modification type show and expect anything else - what did you seriously think was going to be the result? BURN HIM Exiled_Tat_Gatherer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alcyonecorporation Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 I would like to take Jay Leno a 'turn-bn' version of a pull-along Airedale Terrier. Perhaps then the Crufts boards will set alight in the same manner as this one. TL, DR: hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh rml2345 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alcyonecorporation Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 I LOVE CONTEXT I'd have thought Leno would have known that no Cloud came with a 'stick'; they all used GM Hydramatics. Which are American. And Americans like talking about other people using their parts. Makes them homesick. For impeachment. The Moog 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 I'm struggling to understand what's going on, and the first post reads like a foreign language to me Is this what all the fuss is about? If so all I can say is (to me) it looks a great effort, especially being left looking stock. However if it had a John Lennon paint job I might be smarting. If it had a Fast & Furious day-glow green paint job inside and out and a Nurburgring decal, I might scream for a bit. If you (we) don't understand this sort of thing then perhaps live in the US and/or Aus for a bit to come around to the mindset. When I lived in Aus, the fitting a 350 Chev motor to a Jaguar in place of a dead six or twelve was par for the course, having aftermarket mounts and adaptors off-the-shelf meant the cars lived on rather than just left to rot as they tend to in the UK. Etc. chaseracer, Exiled_Tat_Gatherer, djimbob and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rml2345 Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 rolls phantom V ...break !.jpgThat looks superb! Aside from the fact that the thing was not that rare, a bit knackered and generally unloved the Series 1 Clouds have the least desireable mechanical spec so although the six is rather more refined even Royce binned it for a 6.2 V8 in 1959. If they can do that why can't someone else? Get a grip Felly man, it's not like it's the booted Metro or something worth foaming about. djimbob 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cms206 Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 Sometimes... just sometimes... I wish Felly would make a post without using some preschoolers attempt at rhyming slang. Septic? Jay Chino? FWIW I reckon it sounds the absolute tits. Rolls Royce stuff does the square root of fuck all for me and that actually works for me. 112%/10. Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk The Moog, Clanger, trigger and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djimbob Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 Thanks to Louise I watched the show, and I have to say I quite liked what they'd done! Personally I would have liked a quieter exhaust note for true sleeper fun, and of course long journeys are no fun with that much row, and a set of classic looking wheel trims and as they mentioned, big rubber old school tyres, again for comfort and handling, and you'd have a very useable motor for everyday jaunts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgalour Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 It's like watching a badly-dubbed 70s cop show, the engine noise is so utterly out of place. That's my favourite part about it. djimbob, Banger Kenny, flat4alfa and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 I watched that last night, normally I find Leno a bit dull but that Rolls had me grinning from ear to ear. If it was mine (not likely) I'd have a set of polished beauty rings made for the wheels, and waft around in it looking for modern cars with JDM stickers to annihilate. The car was rotting away on a drive, it would still be there now without Icon. I can't say one way or another what his build quality is like (other than it's better than mine), but I like his style... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 Its the Silver Spirit, rollered black, with a Cummins 6BT and vertical exhaust stack protruding through the bonnet that does it for me. chaseracer and The Reverend Bluejeans 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alcyonecorporation Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 PEACE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 Its the Silver Spirit, rollered black, with a Cummins 6BT and vertical exhaust stack protruding through the bonnet that does it for me. So WOOD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 Leave it to the Belgians. Supernaut 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 What a ridiculous country, to ban cruise control but not that. STUNO, alf892 and cms206 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 That one really is in poor taste. At least some of the Silver Shadows are tongue in cheek, that one seems to be someone's idea of a hot rod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 Shame it got left to fester after this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UltraWomble Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 Have I entered some kind of parallel universe: toosavvy's post I understand. The rest? Not so much.Not just you Louise - Im wondering what da fook . Mind you Im not paying a lot of attention as Im trying to argue the toss with someone on faceboolocks who insists that having half an onion in a dish will stop her catching the flu. Clanger, Louise2cv, Junkman and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Reverend Bluejeans Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 Silver Clouds are fucking horrible things anyway. When a 1949 Cadillac had a proper OHV V8 and power hydro brakes etc, who'd want some pompous Crewe lash up with a handbuilt neolithic straight six engine fit only for an upmarket tractor and rod operated drums FFS. The Silver Shadow brought Rolls into the modern era, only the fifties Bentley Continental is reprieved because it's so pretty unlike the godawful Rolls heap. Show me a concours BMW Baroque Angel and I'll have a crate small block Chevy, THM400 and a Jag IRS in there in no time. Junkman and flat4alfa 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Reverend Bluejeans Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 Like it. Good video. Leno also thinks the 1949 Cadillac is a far better car................ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Reverend Bluejeans Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 I saw a Beacham E-Type the other day. It was bloody awful. Modern door handles, mirrors and interior crammed into an old E-Type. It was like catching your grandma in fishnet stockings and a basque. Or even worse. Your grandad. Might still have been better than the Mk2 though, where the entire lovely interior has been replaced by modernity. Which doesn't fit. Could be worse. Much, much worse. Some grovelling Jaguar specialist is now turning this shit out: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 To be fair, there is only one of those. And it looks rather better in the metal, I have to say. I'll stick to chrome bumpers though thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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