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Summary
Between 1926 and 1931, the English company Rolls-Royce built the Phantom I, a luxury-class car with an in-line six-cylinder engine. Conceptually, the Phantom was closely related to its predecessor, the Silver Ghost, and it also adopted its virtues - durability and reliability. The Phantom I was manufactured in England and the USA, with coachwork by Park Ward, Mulliner, Hooper and Brewster, among others. This report portrays a Rolls-Royce Phantom I Ascot Tourer from 1930, which was once built in America, and describes the history of the car's creation and life.
This article contains the following chapters
- Focus on quality right from the start
- From the Silver Ghost to the New Phantom
- From Phantom I to the Phantom dynasty
- The American Rolls-Royce
- Built for eternity?
- Elaborately restored
- Space there
- Relaxed driving
- Further information
Estimated reading time: 8min
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Anyone who was really rich in the 1920s bought a Rolls-Royce, or at least that's what Jay Gatsby, better known as the Great Gatsby from Scott Fitzgerald's book "The Great Gatsby", thought. Jay Gatsby drives a Rolls-Royce in the novel, although the car is only mentioned twice in passing. In the movie with Robert Redford, the Rolls-Royce is then interpreted as a (yellow) Phantom I from 1929, although of course at the time in which the book was set, namely 1922, only a Silver Ghost would have come into question, as the "New Phantom" was not available until 1925. However, very few moviegoers would have noticed the difference, as the Phantom I, as it was retrospectively called when the Phantom II was released in 1929, was a conservative continuation of the Silver Ghost series. Incidentally, the fact that Leonardo di Caprio drives a Duesenberg in the 2013 film version should not be discussed further here.
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