Ridiculous posh shite purchased..............

[Rocket88]

 

Some shitiest may recall that I purchased a Vauxhall Royale Velourobarge recently. Last weekend, paid a visit to an old mate of mine who runs a classic wedding car business, and is also prone to the same ridiclous old chod that we're all into. To cut a long story short, he took a shine to the Royale, and after much hilarious bartering, I wrote him a cheque, bunged him the keys to the Royale............and ended up with this! 

I've always wanted one, I know this has always been well maintained, and it's only done 39000 miles. Most things work, and the "out of the way, peasants" experience is worth every litre of the horrendous fuel consumption............

[RobT]

YOU IS CHARLIE HUNGERFORD! Although his was a Silver Cloud.

[Rocket88]

Once you get used to the dimensions of the old girl, it's quite surprising how you can hustle her along.....................Wonder if anyone has ever "pineappled" an RR?

[Asimo]

Jools Holland and Rowland Rivron chopped the roof and junked the hubcaps for some weird channel 4 series about 20 years ago. I liked the look but it was done crudely so , Yes they have!

 

Search you tube for "the Groovy Fellers" Rolls Royce content from minute 34 of episode 1 and from beginning of episode 2. 1989 tv!

 

Paint free bonnet an option on modern Rollers

 

Fuel consumption can't matter much on a small island can it? Top shiteing!

[mercrocker]

Sadly......

[barefoot]

I was once at a caravanserai in the new forest, there was a shadow with an implausibly small van in tow.

[Partridge]

Rolls-Royce%20Silver%20Shadow%20Grosnez.jpg

 

 

Sorry.

[Rocket88]

The Jimmy Saville comments' already made................I think you can be put on a register just for owning one of these................!.They are lovely to drive, although they're not fast, the aircon is crap, and they drink like Oliver Reed and Richard Burton put together.............they just exude wafty loveliness.

[twosmoke300]

well bugger me . I had those sheets in my first rented house ^^^

[mercrocker]

^^Yes, he probably would have done....

[eddyramrod]

About time one of us had a Silver Shadow!  Well played.  There weren't many places you could go from that Royale, were there?  This is like Brucie turning over the ace of diamonds....

[Rocket88]

I'll see your velour and raise you a dead cow and a tree..........................

[vulgalour]

The one in Merc's comment, as I recall, was basically a Rolls Royce that was caught in a bit of a fire in a building but rather than scrap the car or restore it, the guy that owns it just used it.  Hence this photograph.

 

http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/rolls-royce-burn-emily-burn-fotostrecke-36405.html

 

I'm a big fan of the Council Estate Royce, I'd love to own a gold and brown one some day but I'm sure I never shall.

[Skizzer]

Well played!  Always fancied a go in one of these.

 

Also, I'm very pleased that your Royale has gone to a good home and out of the way of temptation.

[Bobthebeard]

Although in theory I would love to trundle around in one of these I suspect the embarrassment factor would be too much. My appearance would be enough to suggest that I had either borrowed it or stolen it! The neighbours would be in fits of laughter. I once did some contract work for a chap that had delusions of grandeur and bought one. He used to ask friends or workmates to drive it whilst he sat in the back looking like a celebrity. In reality he looked like an idiot.

[Asimo]

I like the way they can be used as the maker intended everyday on ordinary roads just wafting around with the minimum of fuss, using the max of comfort all of the time. Useable in just the way sports cars aren't.

 

(never driven a RR so this is all speculation)

[inconsistant]

One is lead to believe that your newly acquired conveyance benefits from drive to the rearmost wheels and therefore i can conclude most definitely that this vehicle would offer an excellent opportunity for your driver to partake on your behalf in what I believe is commonly referred to as 'driftingyo' or similar. It is verily an wheapon.

[eddyramrod]

  Now that, I would make the effort to go and watch!

[Guest Lord Sward]

Class!

[Tayne]

 

 

I'm a big fan of the Council Estate Royce, I'd love to own a gold and brown one some day but I'm sure I never shall.

 

 

With a touch of mud?

 

Muddy Brown by Tayne, on Flickr

 

 

Whatever you do, please don't draw on it.

 

The Bride by Tayne, on Flickr

[catsinthewelder]

I remember reading about a chap in Germany who's garden was filled with rare and valuble old cars that he was deliberately leaving to rust away, it looked fantastic but did seem like a bit of a waste.  I think it was the same bloke with the rat look RR in Vulgalours link.

[Junkman]

Michael Fröhlich is a class A wanker.
 

 

 

 

 

 

There are 50 cars in this so-called 'Park', all of them from 1950, that he 'installed' in 2000 for his 50th birthday.

I hope the fire in his Düsseldorf showroom finally bankrupted him, but I'm afraid the insurance will gold-pate his arse.

[srad34]

What a muppet, bloody germans.....

[cort16]

A cheap silver shadow. Why wouldn't you?

What do they sound like? I mean that v8 is pretty substantial in volume but I imagine it;s pretty suppressed?

[Cavcraft]

Shadow 2 in Autoshite wedding car white; Shit.

 

A Shadow 1 in dark blue or black: Shite.

 

I'm still jealous though.

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

I love the Shadow II.

[aldo135]

Is the blue car a Borgward? Looks lovely, total sin being left like that for "art"

 

 

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[burraston2006]

Absolutely magnificent! Will you get a one inch piece of Sealand so you can call yourself a lord? Are the autoshite stickers still available? If so will you stick one in the rear window?!

[dome]

Please tell me you've bought a big set of Cibies and a Sheiks outfit so you can get all Cannonball Run on us?

[Guest Breadvan72]

I think that the park of gently dilapidating jalopes is a pretty good (if minor) piece of art.  Self indulgent, yes, but the display manages to say something about the stuff that we make and the effects of time.  They are only cars, people, and not unique, albeit rare.    The dude paid for them, I suppose, and didn't rob them off someone.