a unique rumble seat design on a 1926 Rolls, that I've never seen before; a two panel seat, where one lifts up for the seat back, and the panel between that and the cabin, pivots upside down to be the seat of the ruble seat, and seat arms.

see the video at https://www.facebook.com/reel/956771107095327

I'm guessing the only way that Rolls gets off the wagon is with a loading dock

https://f30.bimmerpost.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1987655&page=49

that is one strange Rolls Royce, but they have their own gas pump in the yard! (Thank you Rolf!)

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/69/

In 1933 this lightweight and streamlined body was fitted for Alan Bemis to pull his glider up into the air. 

It was given an aluminum body with Plexiglas (Perspex) rear windows, fairly new materials in the 1930s. The dashboard was made of cast aluminum. 

The car had a fin shape at the rear and a tow hook on the back, while the roof had Perspex panels.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WeirdWheels/comments/1potumm/1927_rollsroyce_aerocar_20hp/

It turns out I posted this car in 2016 

https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2016/04/1927-boat-tail-rolls-royce-20hp-sports.html

Another Frazetta movie poster! After The Fox - 1965

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10236838614358015&set=pcb.25753161201006500

same style of Rolls Royce as the other one I posted 4 months ago https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2025/10/just-campy-and-60s-goofball-as-hell-but.html

What is the meaning of life? Why are we here? Did I leave the stove on? Why the hell doesn't Rolls Royce use metric instead of Whitworth?

 

The Words Don't Fit The Picture, was Willie's 14th studio album, and one of his last at RCA Records, in a limited edition of 1500 translucent blue vinyl, originally released in 1972

Well, I guess if you want to drive a Rolls you want one that looks different from the ones everyone else is driving. What's the point of wasting that much money if you can't tell yours from the other ones in the parking lot, right?

just campy and 60s goofball as hell, but, Boris Karloff voiced Dr Frankenstein, designed by my favorite illustrator Jack Davis, and Frank Frazetta did the promo art! So, yeah, I'm sharing it! Bass and Rankin stop motion animation from 1967

https://www.frazettagirls.com/products/the-monster-party-print?srsltid=AfmBOoqnPRCbrPLvLafVztLvHbzvgtpkRAD-9Bi9oUm19a2Tov4g7pvL

above, Frazetta art

Above: Jack Davis art, lettering by Paul Coker, Jr. in what looks like a re-purposing, re-edit into a possible TV special version, hosted by Vincent Price. 

Vincent appeared as Evil Irontail in Rankin/Bass' Here Comes Peter Cottontail (1971).

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/MadMonsterParty

https://enchantedworldofrankinbass.blogspot.com/2024/02/mad-monster-party.html

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1300712778/mad-monster-party-count-dracula-fine-art

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061931/?ref_=mv_close

It's early for Halloween... but hell, I'm less than a week out, and why hold this until then, I figure share it now, so other people can share it too if they want to. Vincent Price, Frank Frazetta, Boris Karloff,... and I bet you've never heard of it! 

Remy Brouchot, "Imagine" evocation of a Rolls-Royce grille and its mascot

https://www.gros-delettrez.com/lot/171336/30928480-remy-brouchot-imagine-evocation-dune-calandre-de-rolls-royce

I don't remember if I've ever posted a Rolls used as a Rail Inspection car. Mayo Singh's 1930 Rolls-Royce Phantom II, with coachwork by Thrupp & Maberly and railway wheels.

https://theleugueofsillyenginesa.tumblr.com/

The car, chassis 137GN, was sold to J.A. Wattie in England in 1929. It had a Thrupp and Maberly limousine body put on it and was delivered in 1930. In 1933 Wattie moved to Victoria and brought the Rolls - and his chauffeur - with him.

Wattie died in 1939 and the car was put up for sale at National Motor Co. in Victoria. Times were tough and the market was not good for a large 10 year old luxury car. As best John can determine, the car eventually sold to the Superintendent of the E & N Railway, who had railway wheels fitted so that it could serve as his personal transportation car during inspection runs. But apparently the idea would not have met the approval of his boss, and the car was sold to Mayo Singh.

Singh was a prominent member of the Indian community and owned a lumber business and a short stretch of rail line on Vancouver Island. He died in 1955. His son recalls that the Rolls was used on the tracks but there was no way to turn it around, so the return trip in reverse gear was a little slow.

The next owner was Doug Holman, who put Packard wheels on the car and eventually sold it to Hank Remple for $250. He drove it for a year and then sold it to a friend in Calgary. The car was restored in the 1990s and may still be there.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=7805538309478376&set=gm.7498749533495125&idorvanity=660030330700447

The Rolls-Royce Phantom is 100 years old in 2025, and to celebrate, Rolls-Royce has driven one straight into a swimming pool, because Keith Moon famously did just that in the 1970s.

So it took an old extended Phantom prototype destined for the big scrapheap in the sky, and sent it straight into Tinside Lido in Plymouth. 

The famous building sits next to the English Channel, and is itself linked to another music legend: it featured in a picture taken of  The Beatles back in 1967.

https://www.topgear.com/car-news/retro/rolls-royce-has-driven-a-phantom-a-pool-because-keith-moon-did-it-once

Miss Budweiser boat shop at Boeing Field, in the spring of 1979. Six Rolls Royce Griffon engines are lined up to have their superchargers installed

https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2025/07/miss-budweiser-boat-shop-at-boeing.html

a young boy spotted a Silver Ghost hiding in a roadside shed outside London, told his dad who tipped off the cops, and the owner got his car back... it was stolen in a hotel parking lot of course. A lot of collector cars are.

 

the owner has had the Rolls for over two decades, having purchased it at auction before dedicating years to its meticulous restoration. The car had become his faithful companion on tours across France, Italy, Poland, and numerous other European destinations

What makes this crime particularly audacious is the sheer impracticality of stealing a 1920 Silver Ghost that requires a 23 step starting procedure that most concours judges, and owners, can't remember, without written instructions

The Rolls was parked within clear view of two security cameras, and the thief got away clean, and isn't likely to get caught, ever. 

It's a good reminder that it's extremely effective to simply remove a piece of the ignition that's rare or hard to acquire, which prevents thieves from driving a car away... if you can rig up some clever way to lock the transmission in park, or the parking brake on, or the steering at the extreme left or right. 

https://luxurylaunches.com/transport/105-year-old-rolls-royce-stolen-06302025.php

I was in a parking garage today with 2 Lambos, a Rolls, and a Ferrari... it's shocking how many exclusive cars are in this garage, more than some car shows can draw!

 

I could only get photos of this Lambo

the next post has the other car 

The engine and clutch of a surplus P-51with a Packard-built Merlin, had been manufactured under license in the U.S.A. in 1944, yet Rolls still stood behind them with an unlimited warranty in 1963

In 1963, Bill Lear (of Learjet fame) was living in Geneva, Switzerland and flying a surplus P-51, N-251L . 

After numerous problems with the starter clutch on his Packard-built Merlin, he contacted Rolls-Royce. They instructed Lear to send them the clutch, which was quickly repaired and returned. Lear wrote: “I called my benefactor to thank him and to ask him when to expect an invoice. His reply was: ‘My dear Mr. Lear, Rolls-Royce-designed products do not fail. They may require occasional adjustment, but this is covered by our unlimited warranty. So there is no charge, sir.’

https://forums.sassnet.com/index.php?/topic/379518-standing-behind-their-products/

I have heard a similar story about Rolls Royce, it involved a driveshaft on a RR automobile. RR was contacted about spares to fix it, they sent a shipping voucher for the part to be sent to them. the part was promptly repaired and returned but no bill. The car owner re-contacted RR wishing to pay for services rendered and was informed there was no charge because "Rolls Royce products don't break".

https://forums.sassnet.com/index.php?/topic/379518-standing-behind-their-products/

Bill Lear mentioned that at the tender age of 18 he was the youngest P-38 pilot. 

It turns out that Lear, just four days before his 18th birthday, with a check in hand from his famous father, he bought a P-38 and flew it out the same day from Kingman, Ariz. Not a war weary bird or an ex-trainer, but a brand new P-38L-F5G with only 18 hours, 20 minutes total time on its airframe and engines.

He was someone who actually bought a World War II fighter for $1,250.

https://generalaviationnews.com/2007/01/19/bill-lear-and-surplus-wwii-aircraft-whats-the-connection/

Bill sold the P51 the same year, after getting the repair, and the American buyer hired a French pilot to ferry the aircraft back to the U.S.. 

This pilot had never flown a P-51 before. His first landing was at Kevlavik, Iceland after a non-stop flight from Paris Toussus-le-Noble airport. The pilot flared too high and while at low airspeed. 

The aircraft rotated leftward, the wing struck the runway and the aircraft began to cartwheel down the runway. The engine broke off as did both wings and the aft fuselage leaving the cockpit section intact and on its side.

 The pilot was alive but his head got pretty busted up. He later died of these injuries. He had worn no crash helmet and the shoulder-harness was found tied in a knot and dropped behind his seat. This was a survivable accident

https://warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11851

Since I put the 1st and 2nd stories together, and now find them on Daily Timewaster, I guess that means that DT reads my blog? Or someone send him links to things they figure he will like https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2025/03/thats-customer-service.html

I haven't come across a hot air balloon basket transporter car in a long time! Here's a 1924 Rolls-Royce 40/50 Springfield Silver Ghost

https://silodrome.com/hot-air-balloon-transporter-rolls-royce/

The only Wilwood brake things NOT in the Wilwood booth, and instead, found on a Rolls Royce... in the Australian tire roasting show area over in the parking lot by the West Hall at SEMA

 

Goldfinger, was released 60 years ago, when the storyline of a movie was so simple, just a villain smuggling gold disguised as car parts on his Rolls Royce.

 
Goldfinger used a 1937 Rolls-Royce Phantom III Sedanca de Ville with coachwork made from actual gold to smuggle the metal from England to Switzerland, where the body of the car is melted down and voila—he avoided some kind of banking-schmanking regulation. Once the body of the car was melted down, the original coachwork went back on and he'd return to England to repeat the operation.

https://www.jamesbondlifestyle.com/product/rolls-royce-phantom-iii

https://www.autoweek.com/car-life/a62262881/james-bond-goldfinger-rolls-royce/

BMW revealed it will have to recall 1.5 million vehicles (including MINI and Rolls-Royce Sceptre) over a braking problem, costing it almost €1bn

Although BMW said the problem with the braking system in some new models was not a safety issue, the additional cost under warranties would be a “high three-digit million amount”

The update is the latest blow to Germany’s car industry, which is reeling from Volkwagen’s announcement that it may have to close factories. The closure of factories in Germany would be a first for the carmaker.

While BMW stressed that the brakes in the cars covered by the recall continue to work, and it does not know of any incident caused by the issue, it is understood that the fault in the electronic braking support system could affect how hard drivers have to press the brake pedal to stop the car.

The system, made by Continental, is used in a variety of BMW models that have come off the production lines since June 2022, including the BMW X1, X2 and X5 SUVs, the Mini Cooper and Countryman, and the luxury Rolls-Royce Spectre. It is understood only a small fraction of the cars potentially have the system malfunction. These would have been manufactured in BMW’s plants in Germany, the UK and France, as well as in the US, China, and South Korea.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/sep/10/bmw-shares-fall-recall-braking-fault

appreciation for the machinery... the 1924 Silver Ghost axle

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