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1962 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II 
Class: Cars, Sedan — Model origin: 
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◊ 2008-09-03 00:57 |
The numberplate reads CUB1 so this must be Albert "Cubby" Broccoli's (the producer of the Bond films) car. It later had a role in A View to a Kill (wearing a different numberplate) /vehicle_2642-Rolls-Royce-Silver-Cloud-II-1962.html Although Broccoli has passed on, the car is still on the road today: The vehicle details for CUB 1 are: Date of Liability 01 02 2009 Date of First Registration 24 08 1962 Year of Manufacture Not Available Cylinder Capacity (cc) 6230CC CO2 Emissions Not Available Fuel Type Petrol Export Marker Not Applicable Vehicle Status Licence Not Due Vehicle Colour SILVER -- Last edit: 2008-09-03 11:10:17 |
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◊ 2008-09-03 01:01 |
Another Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud:![[Image: thunderballrolls1zx7.100.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/0is511/thunderballrolls1zx7.100.jpg) |
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◊ 2012-10-18 15:26 |
The car used in "A View to A Kill" is an other car, actually a Bentley S.1 with a RR radiator, painted in "Shell Grey". The Broccoli's car is "Shell Grey over Dove Grey". The black car is a 1957 Ford Fairlane 500 'Skyliner' (retractable hardtop convertible). |
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◊ 2012-10-18 17:48 |
Just did a Google search ("Cubby Broccoli rolls-royce view to a kill") and various websites still say it was his Rolls in A View to a Kill. The car in the photo at the bottom of this page Link to "www.007magazine.co.uk" is same colour as the one in AVTAK, has the CUB1 numberplate and notice both cars have the same badges in front of the grille (albiet in a different order in each film) the same foglights and the same aerial above the windscreen. The car must have been repainted. |
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◊ 2012-10-18 18:06 |
The pale car in the link has a driver door mirror and wipers which park untidily on the screen. I have absolutely no info on whether the wiper thing is a genuine production change (it would be useful if it gave us an SC1 versus SC2 separation and also for Bentley S1/S2), but makes me think 2 different cars, with the main (grey) car with tidy wiper parking as a newer one. |
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◊ 2012-10-18 18:08 |
Or maybe it's 2 different cars but both were still his and the personalised registration was transferred. |
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◊ 2012-10-18 18:16 |
Probably - I wasn't trying to suggest anything more. But if any of our RR experts can comment on the wiper arrangements it could become very helpful as we've millions of undecided SC1/SC2 and S1/S2 to play with. |
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◊ 2012-10-18 18:21 |
Maybe it's just a matter of what position the wipers happened to have been left in when they were last used. |
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◊ 2012-10-18 18:28 |
Maybe, indeed ... let's hope The Knowledgeable Ones can lead us out of this darkness of uncertainty. |
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◊ 2023-06-02 19:14 |
I had assumed that it was the same Silver Cloud II, and that in the intervening 20 years, he chose to repaint it in a solid color, perhaps due to style trends, preference for something different, etc. I did believe that the "A View to a Kill" Rolls-Royce used in the glamour scenes was Mr. Broccoli's car, and that the aforementioned Bentley SII with Rolls-Royce grille was a clapped out, sacrifical lamb stunt car. I'd not think any car submerged in water for a period would be salvageable, especially anything fitted with Lucas electrics. |
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◊ 2023-06-02 21:31 |
Demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of the fact that Royces and Bentleys of that era were fitted with a different range of Lucas electrics which were of excellent and long lasting quality if maintained as you would expect. The 70 year old Lucas starter and dynamo on my Bentley operate perfectly, and the switchboard still maintains its expensive feel. The normal range of Lucas electrics as fitted to ordinary cars performed just as well as Autolite equipment. I have now been driving for 58 years, hundreds of thousands of miles in all nationalities of cars (except indigenous American) and can say that Lucas electrics are no better or worse than any others, Autolite, Ducellier, Paris-Rhone, Bosch or whatever. The increase in quality found after the introduction of Japanese cars to the market was noticeable, once they decided that rust proofing was a good idea, and trickled into normal components bit by bit. -- Last edit: 2023-06-02 21:32:21 |
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