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◊ 2010-07-18 19:49 |
It doesn't really look like an original one. |
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◊ 2010-07-19 01:54 |
not a rolls-royce 25/30 from the 30s? |
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◊ 2010-07-19 10:34 |
Maybe it's a spacial bodywork -I'm not a RR-specalist- , but for me it looks too American style and rather Replica-like. @robgeleen:  |
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◊ 2010-07-19 10:54 |
Is it perhaps a 1926 Springfield 40/50 h.p. like http://www.aacamuseum.org/images/jwr/1926-Rolls-Royce-Ghost-side.jpg (wrongly called a Silver Ghost)? |
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◊ 2010-07-19 11:27 |
Hmmm, the part around the windscreen looks different. |
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◊ 2010-07-19 15:00 |
Different coachbuilder, maybe? It has some similarities ... tubular bumper, sidemount, and some differences, such as the headlights, but I still think it's a genuine Springfield Royce. |
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◊ 2010-08-17 21:43 |
All Silver Ghosts, New Phantom and Phantom II are 40/50 h.p., and these are the only three models that were built in Springfield. My guess is either a Ghost, or a PI because of the bumper bar. These items were sometimes replaced by later-style twin-blade bumpers. Anyway, fenders are definitel too young for a RR with that bar, so they were mounted later. General impression of the body is that of a Brewster convertible. They catalogued at least 4 of them, the Henlex, the Playboy, the Regent, and the Pall Mall. I think it is one of the ladder. |
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◊ 2010-08-18 10:19 |
IIRC strictly speaking, only one vehicle should be called Silver Ghost, the famous AX 201. All other 'Ghosts' are correctly called 40/50 h.p. I would favour Phantom I for this one. -- Last edit: 2010-08-18 10:25:09 |
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◊ 2012-02-25 20:41 |
It is a Springfield Silver Ghost, chassis #186KF which was "modernized", including a conversion to lhd steering. It was in the "Cars of the Stars" museum in Buena Park, Cal. Actually its original owner was Charlie Chaplin ! |
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◊ 2012-02-25 22:12 |
![[:prosterne]](https://imcdb.opencommunity.be/images/smileys/prosterne.gif "[:prosterne]") |
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◊ 2012-02-28 19:35 |
1929 Piccadilly Roadster.![[Image: chaplinrolls3.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/0pb/chaplinrolls3.jpg) "A Rolls Royce, vintage: 29, once the prized property of Charlie Chaplin was parked five stalls down from Spitfire autos owned by Norma Talmadge and Daryl Zanuck. Pictured here is Charlie Chaplin's car." http://earlyamusementparksoforangecounty.blogspot.com/2009/08/more-of-movie-world-cars-of-stars.html ![[Image: chaplinrolls1.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/0pb/chaplinrolls1.jpg) |
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◊ 2012-02-28 19:40 |
Piccadilly or Picadilly? I'm seeing both. |
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◊ 2012-02-28 20:04 |
Two c's, two l's .gif ";)") |
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◊ 2012-02-28 20:09 |
Ok. American postcards... One more reference: "One of the earliest drive-on parts for a Rolls-Royce was when Chaplin took a 1925 Springfield Silver Ghost for a spin in City Lights. For himself, he ordered a 1929 Rolls-Royce Piccadilly Roadster with - dear me - whitewall tyres. It was almost as ostentatious as the 1928 Mercedes SPL built specially for Al Jolson." -Punch, Volume 290, Part 1 Couldn't find the current whereabouts. -- Last edit: 2012-02-28 20:23:06 |
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◊ 2021-09-06 11:09 |
I have the exact same car. Picadilly Roadster 1929 |
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