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Posted by @ 14:50 29th Oct 2010

Mike was the lucky gentleman who won a free weekend in the car of his choice when he visited us at The Goodwood Revival in September. Today he arrived with his wife and daughter to collect the Silver Shadow Rolls Royce (1978) and set off for a regal experience.

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And what a laugh we had, hamming it up big time in cravats, hats and purple velvet. An ideal choice to treat the whole family. Read Tim Moore's 'Continental Drifter' for an hilarious (and unerringly accurate) description of what it's like to sit behind the wheel of an old Roller for the first time.

Posted by Mike Ingram @ 22:14 1st Nov 2010

In "Continental Drifter" Tim Moore describes the Silver Shadow like this: "After heaving the door closed with a dungeon clunk, I vaguely centralised myself in the Chesterfield driver's seat and placed my hands at ten-to-two on a Bakelite hoop the diameter of a cartwheel. In front of me yawned a tapering bonnet topped by the Spirit of Ecstacy and flanked by little nascent fins... Behind was a dark and leathery railway compartment, beyond which an enormous boot sloped unhelpfully out of sight". Despite these

Posted by Mike Ingram @ 22:06 1st Nov 2010

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