Ghost Story - Rolls-Royce 40/50 `Silver Ghost" 1907 - 2007
Code No: 19379
Price: $44.95
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Author: Duke, Graham & Helsing, Elisabet
Published: 2007
Binding: Softcover
No. Pages: 122
Dimensions: 15 x 23
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The Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost was and remains a legendary car, built to achieve perfection. Of less than 8000 Ghosts built from 1907 onwards, some 2000 are believed to survive, many still on the road. This is the tale of one Silver Ghost, chassis number 114-AU, and of the remarkable and sometimes exasperating people who have owned and preserved it through nine decades. What led these people to want a Rolls-Royce - and sometimes more than one? How did they contrive to pay for it? And how did it survive the threats posed variously by war, indifference, changing fashions, economic collapse and the scrapyard `round the corner? This is not just the history of a car, but of five generations of people in a century that changed the world.
The Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost was and remains a legendary car, built to achieve perfection. Of less than 8000 Ghosts built from 1907 onwards, some 2000 are believed to survive, many still on the road. This is the tale of one Silver Ghost, chassis number 114-AU, and of the remarkable and sometimes exasperating people who have owned and preserved it through nine decades. What led these people to want a Rolls-Royce - and sometimes more than one? How did they contrive to pay for it? And how did it survive the threats posed variously by war, indifference, changing fashions, economic collapse and the scrapyard `round the corner? This is not just the history of a car, but of five generations of people in a century that changed the world.
