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Mal, thanks for explaining the rotary roof aerial.

The communist leaders appreciated Packard's.
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The caption reads: "Warsaw, Poland - January 24, 2010 - Antique Car 1923 Packard Single Six in the automotive exhibition"
Okay, this time the armored RR upstages the well-travelled guest.


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Gusha, I rarely find RRs to have pleasing proportions or attractive coachwork but that one's an exception, at least to my tastes. Who is the coachwork attributed to?

Dave, nothing written there and elsewhere. All I found were some few pics (attached).
BTW Interesting size difference between windshield and side windows and very British color combination. In my view the color of the spare wheel covers are unharmonious.




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g'day all, I would suggest that the side mount wheel covers are a total owner driven after thought. I had a 23 Ghost and my association with these vehicles encourages me to suggest that the spare wheels were almost always left naked, especially in the UK. Unless they were Springfield Rollers, in which case many had tasteful covers, as required by the American purchaser. In any case and in all fields, as a Manufacturer, "exclusivity" has it's price. I find the 20HP Rolls Royce to be good looking for a period when some coachbuilders were putting some dreadful designs on very expensive chassis. Peter Toet

Peter, thank's for putting the cart behind the horse. That is a Rolls Royce, designed in positional awareness to build one of the best cars money can buy! Even conceivably padded and branded, vegetable tanned, lime green 10oz leather straps, cut from Connolly with handmade double-stitched seams, embroided owner initials and brazen roll buckle, held in place by four nickelplated Chicago Screws, which can be removed to change out the buckle..., a firework of eye-flattering details instead of an ill-fitting functional balloon silk cover from the bargain bin next to the desused railway station.


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Two turncoats.

A short trip to Portugal.






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Here comes an old acquaintance. Dave (O_D) annotated 2011/4/20"...That chromium-plated grille surround on the 38 Super Eight was apparently a legit option and seen occasionally though I've always thought it detracted significantly from the appearance of the car. But to each his own....".

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