May the Fourth Be With You

May the forthe be with you.

"Star Wars Day...."

Also the day F.H.Royce first met C.S. Rolls.

"Rolls was introduced to Henry Royce by a friend at the Automobile Club, Henry Edmunds, who was also a director of Royce Ltd. Edmunds showed him Royce's car and arranged the historic meeting between Rolls and Royce at the Midland Hotel, Manchester, on 4 May 1904."  - a quote  from wikipedia.

waynep1957 's shots from a few years ago. Brilliant.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/waynepettyt/sets/72157627485425566/with/6037639041/

As on the old BBC Edwardians video/DVD

Get your hands on it.

They are out there on Ebay:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Edwardians-DVD-2008-2-Disc-Set-/200919635043?pt=US_DVD_HD_DVD_Blu_ray&hash=item2ec7be5463

It's a good one. Old 1970s BBC drama at it's best..

One hundred and nine years ago.

Today:

This IS an important date

Start you car up in honour of Messrs. R & R. - If you can. 

I can't. My car's a thousand Kms away. Give me a couple of weeks.

(Posted by David Irvine)

Outta Da Way

A very imposing shot by Kenjonbro of an Arnage in Trafalgar Square today:

(Posted by David Irvine - Thanks Ken)

May

From the official Bentley calendar:

(Posted by David Irvine)

Trafalgar Square Today

Kenjonbro's update from London.

An EWB Ghost:

A 2006 Flying Spur:

And a another Flying Spur showing off it's silver mesh lower grille:

This amused me, though:

Okay, so it's just a Van den Plas Austin Princess. So what...?

It's original and hasn't had a bloody Rolls-Royce grille grafted onto it as so many wedding hire firms do.

That's sacrilege.

(Posted by David Irvine)

Classic Car Display at Cruden Farm, Langwarrin

Today I joined the Rolls-Royce Owners Club of Australia, Victoria Branch for their April event.

It was a charity day of a Classic Car Display at Cruden Farm, Langwarrin down Mornington Peninsula way.

It was quite enjoyable, and a good turnout of cars, from very early to very new.

From a Phantom I to a Goodwood Phantom.

Here is a selection of photographs from the day. Press Play to begin the slideshow.



I particularly liked a 1997 Brooklands R Mulliner Park Ward, and there were some rare cars like a Mulsanne Turbo L, and an R-Type Continental.

Frankly Organic

Tim Myrick sent me this thought provoking shot of his exceptional Rolls-Royce Camargue parked outside one of Frank Lloyd Wright's creations. The Dallas Theater in Texas.

Frank Lloyd Wright (1857-1959) , architect, interior designer, writer and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures and completed 532 works. He believed in designing structures which were in Harmony with humanity and its environment. 

The angular design of the theater suggests it was meant to have a Camargue parked in front of it...

'Organic Architecture' is the term Mr.Lloyd Wright would have used.

(Posted by David Irvine and many thanks to Tim)

Rolls Royce Wraith Prototype Testing

Wow this is a rare video.

I'm quite surprised this made it to Youtube. But I like that it did!

Ohhh yeah.



So, yep in 20 years time, this is what I'll be driving...

Canada's Worst Driver

This is just painful to watch.

The Originals

I've decided to 'ditch' the Silver Spirit alloys on my old thing...



Here is how it used to look.



It's back to the old original black steelies with the stainless steel hubcaps for me.



Here it is after the refit.



She will be almost correct.

The 1977 air dam and lower mounted Lucas Square Eight fog lights stay, okay?



All rubber bumper Shadows need that air dam/spoiler. As it was in the catalogue.



Now if Jordan could do something about those yellow wheels on his Turbo R...

(posted by David Irvine)

Wraith on the Streets

The new Rolls-Royce Wraith is a hit. Demand is very high and apparently 75% of the orders are from new Rolls-Royce customers - not current owners.

 

They're out there now.

 

Tobispot & Joey Wosylus saw this U.K. registered one on the streets of Munich at the end of March:

 

 

 

 

 

 

See all their shots here:

 

http://www.autogespot.ca/en/rolls-royce-wraith/2013/03/30

 

(Posted by David Irvine - thanks to Autogespot)