The qualities of a Rolls-Royce
05/28/2013
The qualities of a Rolls-Royce could not be presented in a more impressive and convincing way. At the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este, a Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost from 1912, now over 100 years old, was also a guest - not in the beauty contest, but in the supporting program, so to speak.
Nevertheless, the owner drove his car through the guard of honor, just as the Concorso participants had done. He had come on the road, the elderly gentleman behind the wheel whispered into the microphone. He went on to say that he now intended to drive over all the Alpine passes that his car had passed in 1913 on the occasion of the Austrian Alpine Rally, which he won at the time. And then he would return home again, taking detours, so that in the end he would have covered a distance of around 6,000 km.
What hundred-year-old car would be expected to make such a long journey if not a Rolls-Royce? The owners of most cars this old are already worried if a journey takes a few hundred kilometers, and very few of them have the confidence to drive over steep Alpine passes. This shows what Rolls-Royces were made of back then. And accordingly, they can proudly stretch their radiator grille into the wind, even if it is a very special and lustful version like this Silver Ghost bodyworked by James Radley, whose chassis cost 800 pounds including extras in April 1912.
A comprehensive report on the Corso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este has been published, which of course also shows the large-format pictures of the Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost.
