An Old Roller has a surprising connection.... by Wallace Wyss - Being simultaneously a WW II buff and a Roll Royce buff, I was pleased to read the note on the ’33 Phantom I saw at the Beverly Hills Father’s Day concours. Many cars had … [Read more...]
DESIGN REVIEW: The New Rolls Royce SUV
May 30, 2018 By 3 Comments
A diamond as big as the Ritz... by Wallace Wyss - The domestic American car market is ga-ga for one type of vehicle, the SUV with pickup trucks a close second. So then you come to the conundrum facing automakers—should we build … [Read more...]
Rolls Royce Needs A Different Two Seater
April 5, 2018 By 1 Comment
CAR magazine had a good idea, Rolls has done it five years later, though not to our correspondent’s satisfaction… by Wallace Wyss - Five years ago, the very alert staff at CAR magazine in England published a drawing of a two seater … [Read more...]
Lord Lucan’s Escape Rolls Royce Found…
April 1, 2018 By 9 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - Image by Richard Bartholomew – A spectacular Roll Royce has come out of storage, confiscated by the storage renters for non-payment of storage fees. The postwar Rolls was believed to be the last vehicle in which a murderer … [Read more...]
The Sad Story Of The Slab-Sided Bentley And The Norwegian Who Thunk It Up….
December 11, 2017 By 14 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - Now it is every car buff’s dream to design a car right? And this particular Bentley is really a classic for the Ages. One of the last true Bentleys, I contend. But the sad part is that the guy that designed it came … [Read more...]
A Royal Rolls (If Ever So Briefly….)
September 29, 2017 By 6 Comments
By Wallace Wyss I gotta admit, musta been my; sojourn working on the Sunset Strip from ’70-’72, fell in love with a lot of celebrity cars, including RR Silver Cloud dropheads (yes, that’s what they called their convertibles though that name … [Read more...]
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