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What's the appeal exactly?
Sure they have good engines, but all modern cars have now.
They look like boxes, and are generally driven by people close to coffins themselves.
Just signs of overt pride and owners with a higher likelihood of impotence imo.
Sure they have good engines, but all modern cars have now.
They look like boxes, and are generally driven by people close to coffins themselves.
Just signs of overt pride and owners with a higher likelihood of impotence imo.
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There's a gold pill box near the champers fridge for the Viagra.
I have had a lift in over one hundred different Rolls Royces over the years and the experience is truly amazing.
I would guess that the appeal is in the eye of the beholder. The hand-built quality. The simple fact that it is 'built' with care and pride rather than just 'produced'.
They are just another car in reality and they are probably not as aerodynamically inefficient as they first appear to be.
They are just another car in reality and they are probably not as aerodynamically inefficient as they first appear to be.
I had one and it was a waste of money. Had nowhere to land it.
The serene silence of a Rolls is something to be experience.
That and ultimate comfort, and feeling of security is to be enjoyed at least once.
The thing is that few people choose a Rolls to drive themselves (unless it's a very old one).
Consider that compared to a "Bugatti Veyron" at £1 million, and a "Lamborghini Aventador" at a similar price to the Rolls Royce Wraith,
it really is something of a bargain.
That and ultimate comfort, and feeling of security is to be enjoyed at least once.
The thing is that few people choose a Rolls to drive themselves (unless it's a very old one).
Consider that compared to a "Bugatti Veyron" at £1 million, and a "Lamborghini Aventador" at a similar price to the Rolls Royce Wraith,
it really is something of a bargain.
"Consider that compared to a "Bugatti Veyron" at £1 million, and a "Lamborghini Aventador" at a similar price to the Rolls Royce Wraith,
it really is something of a bargain."
Can you even buy a Bugatti Veyron for £1 million pounds? the Last time I heard they were £1.5 to £2 million pounds. Enter the showrooom with your million pounds and they'd probably tell you to p@ss off you cheapskate, don't come around here poor boy! They'd exclaim. It could easily end up with one of their larger employees roughing you up and throwing you off the premises.
it really is something of a bargain."
Can you even buy a Bugatti Veyron for £1 million pounds? the Last time I heard they were £1.5 to £2 million pounds. Enter the showrooom with your million pounds and they'd probably tell you to p@ss off you cheapskate, don't come around here poor boy! They'd exclaim. It could easily end up with one of their larger employees roughing you up and throwing you off the premises.
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I have had a lift in over one hundred different Rolls Royces over the years and the experience is truly amazing.
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Talk about all mod cons. A fackin lift!
I have had a lift in over one hundred different Rolls Royces over the years and the experience is truly amazing.
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Talk about all mod cons. A fackin lift!
I knew a bloke who used to chauffeur the Chairman of Yardleys back in the 70s.
'Meticulous, I am.' he used to say.
He'd get in the Roller, and stand an old 3d bit on the dashboard on its edge.
If it fell over when the engine started, the car went back into the garage.
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In the late 70s I was driving through Windsor Safari Park, and saw a Rolls Royce Corniche.
Iirc, they were £80k new back then.
There were 3 kids in the back, chocolate hand prints all over the windows and seats and drink bottles with no tops on the back shelf.
The couple in the front just ignored them.
I'd bet they hired it, nobody in his right mind would pay for that car and have it treated like that, no matter how rich he was.
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Huntingdon Racecourse about 1980.
I parked, and while we were walking in, we passed a Roller with all the picnic paraphernalia out on the grass. Table, champers on ice etc.
After a few races I was talking to a clerk when the bloke who owned the Roller came to draw his winnings.
He had £2 on a 4/1 winner, and found it all 'jolly exciting'.
'Meticulous, I am.' he used to say.
He'd get in the Roller, and stand an old 3d bit on the dashboard on its edge.
If it fell over when the engine started, the car went back into the garage.
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In the late 70s I was driving through Windsor Safari Park, and saw a Rolls Royce Corniche.
Iirc, they were £80k new back then.
There were 3 kids in the back, chocolate hand prints all over the windows and seats and drink bottles with no tops on the back shelf.
The couple in the front just ignored them.
I'd bet they hired it, nobody in his right mind would pay for that car and have it treated like that, no matter how rich he was.
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Huntingdon Racecourse about 1980.
I parked, and while we were walking in, we passed a Roller with all the picnic paraphernalia out on the grass. Table, champers on ice etc.
After a few races I was talking to a clerk when the bloke who owned the Roller came to draw his winnings.
He had £2 on a 4/1 winner, and found it all 'jolly exciting'.
Charles Rolls was the first British person to die in a flying accident.
In the late 70s I was driving through Windsor Safari Park, and saw a Rolls Royce Corniche.
Iirc, they were £80k new back then.
There were 3 kids in the back, chocolate hand prints all over the windows and seats and drink bottles with no tops on the back shelf.
The couple in the front just ignored them.
I'd bet they hired it, nobody in his right mind would pay for that car and have it treated like that, no matter how rich he was.
Perhaps they had stolen it.
Iirc, they were £80k new back then.
There were 3 kids in the back, chocolate hand prints all over the windows and seats and drink bottles with no tops on the back shelf.
The couple in the front just ignored them.
I'd bet they hired it, nobody in his right mind would pay for that car and have it treated like that, no matter how rich he was.
Perhaps they had stolen it.
I have never found them very attractive. Unlike a jag.
All different shapes and sizes since they started out, but still only purchased by the rich.
In early 1970 I was working in an export packing company in Bow E.3. My foreman, Joe Robinson, and his 2nd in command, Johnny Cope, packed a 1921 Rolls Royce for export to the USA. It was a beautiful car and skilfully packed.
The owner came to view the work before the last side and lid were built on, and gave everybody in the machine packing department a tenner each, not just Joe and Johnny. That was nigh on a weeks wages for me as a trainee.
I was a novice at the game then.
I learned a lot from Joe, and in 1982/3 when their firm packed up, mostly due to containerisationtaking over, Joe came to my place in Canning Town for a job, also export packing.
He was being shown round by my boss as I walked by, but he stopped me and said to my boss 'I know him.' and that's how Joe came to work for me until he retired. Nice man, skilled at his job, and always willing to help others. He was well looked after by me for a few years.
When he packed up in 1986, Joe got a part time job on a garage forecourt in Charlton, sarf London, not far from where he lived. I used to pop in and see him if I was over that way.
In between visits in 1988, he passed away.
Good old stick was Joe, he was always whistling.
You can back to cars now.
In early 1970 I was working in an export packing company in Bow E.3. My foreman, Joe Robinson, and his 2nd in command, Johnny Cope, packed a 1921 Rolls Royce for export to the USA. It was a beautiful car and skilfully packed.
The owner came to view the work before the last side and lid were built on, and gave everybody in the machine packing department a tenner each, not just Joe and Johnny. That was nigh on a weeks wages for me as a trainee.
I was a novice at the game then.
I learned a lot from Joe, and in 1982/3 when their firm packed up, mostly due to containerisationtaking over, Joe came to my place in Canning Town for a job, also export packing.
He was being shown round by my boss as I walked by, but he stopped me and said to my boss 'I know him.' and that's how Joe came to work for me until he retired. Nice man, skilled at his job, and always willing to help others. He was well looked after by me for a few years.
When he packed up in 1986, Joe got a part time job on a garage forecourt in Charlton, sarf London, not far from where he lived. I used to pop in and see him if I was over that way.
In between visits in 1988, he passed away.
Good old stick was Joe, he was always whistling.
You can back to cars now.
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