Showing posts with label Rolls Royce. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rolls Royce. Show all posts

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Sleeping beauty blog posted a couple incredibly low mileage barn finds

911 SC with just 421 miles.. think that's nuts?

The have this http://velocesleepingbeauties.blogspot.com/2010/03/beauty-kept-under-wraps-since-new.html with just 38 miles on it, a 1979 Porsche 930 with 38 miles on it

Muira SV with 1024 miles on it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmUV3BDJbCo&feature=channel

Probably from the Sclumph collection, is this Bugatti type 40
These Rolls were found in Canada
By the Eureka mine in Death Valley National Park

Friday, February 12, 2010

John Lennon's Psychedelic 1965 Rolls Royce






a better gallery of it can be seen here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21109658@N00/106322715




The inspiration for the design came from Marijke Koger, one of the design collective ‘The Fool’ who were responsible for numerous seminal pieces of the period and were very influential in the psychedelic art movement. Marjke states in an email to me “I was staying at John’s house in 68 [she miss-states the date!] to paint his piano and he had a painted gypsy wagon in is garden. I suggested to him that he paint the Rolls like the gypsy wagon, which he thought was a great idea...”

It sold for a record sum of $3,006,385 at a Sotheby's auction in New York in 1985 to Jim Pattison, a Canadian. Later, as an act of kindness, Pattison offered the car to the queen of England. Today, it can be found on display at the Royal British Columbia Museum in Victoria. http://obviousmag.org/en/archives/2008/07/john_lennons_psychedelic_rolls_royce.html#ixzz0fNz8kmVa