1979 | Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow II

My first Rolls-Royce was a Silver Shadow II - they did then what was said on the tin, and they still do that even today, nearly 40 years later

Bi-level air conditioning, electric seats, power steering, powerful dual circuit braking, electric windows, 16 hides from the best cattle from Scandinavia as their cattle are not scared by barbed wire fences, all chrome items are initially made from brass and then chromes as brass is the best metal to chrome

So many ways in which a Rolls-Royce was in those days, the best car in the World - even the electric windows had a pressure switch so that you don't clamp you finger in the window by mistake (a famous road test in period tested this the window on the Shadow had a little indentation on an HB pencil, the Daimler Double Six VPD & the Mercedes 450SEL 6.9 cracked the pencil & the Cadallic Seville broke the pencil!!)

Anyhow here we are with this little beauty - some many people comment on the lovely colour combo'

Olive green paintwork with green leather interior (Connolly ref VR 3412) for your reference if necessary

The most recent owner, a serial Bentley & Rolls-Royce owner, amongst other things, bought this car even though he had a cracking SS II. However he found the specimen in a specialist dealer in Bordeaux and realised that this was the very same car this his Grand Father had ordered new - specific opening rear armrest, picnic tables, green leather knee roll, rear quarter badges and more importantly the designed fascia with the rev counter, normally found on the 1971 - 1976 Corniche models

Even more importantly than that, he had remembered this car on a regular basis as his Grand Father sometimes took him to school in this beauty when he was just a little boy

So he just has to have buy her there and then - drove her to home in Brussels and spend, thereafter, a lot of money servicing her and just making her 'just so' ( nearly £ 20.000 worth of sorting out etc )

You would do anything for 'your baby', as he would say

For the previous many years she had been owned by a Spanish airline pilot who had updated the fascia even more with the implementation of a set of VDO gauges alongside the speedo & rev counter

So the 4 gauge dial for most Shadow II's has been replaced by these VDO gauges as well, delightfully, a VDO Hours gauge for the engine - currently standing at 1396 hours + 10 minutes running time

Completely charming and it truly does influence your thoughts about how you drive this silver Shadow II against normal versions

He took her over to London for a long weekend and asked us to collect her from his hotel ( The Connaught, of course, add to which the Royal Ascot Official Programme in the door pocket, shows he is in 'all the right places' ) for us to do these works, since when only about 250 miles have been covered, as due to unforeseen circumstances, the love of his early life had to be sold ASAP ( a long & complicated story........ )

Hence we now have her in our inventory rather than in our workshop!

A super opportunity for a rare SS II in Left Hand Drive with so many special features making her almost an unrepeatable opportunity

NB

European Taxes are paid - she is currently registered in Belgium
UK registration & tax ( 5% ) has to be organised should she be kept here in the UK - we can help with this, if required