Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost Cabriolet de Ville, 1923
Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost
Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost•
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Chassis No.: 35NK
- Exterior: Green
- Body: Cabriolet de Ville
- Coachwork by Barker & Co in London
- Formerly owned by Frank Cooke
- Five position Cabriolet de Ville
- Right hand drive
- Hunter Green with Black wings
- Three position hood
- Leather chauffer’s compartment
- Cloth passenger compartment
- Twin side mount spares
- Brass trim, new trunk
- Walnut caprils
- Electric fuel pump
- Recent long term ownership in a noted New Mexico collection
- Driven in many tours, notably the 2004 anniversary event
- Only 7,874 Silver Ghost cars were built from 1907-1926
- The Silver Ghost established Rolls-Royce’s claim of making The Best Car in the World
Five-position tops were popular wherever the weather was changeable, as well as among owners of big cars who didn’t want the trouble and expense of having different bodies for summer and winter driving. The terms Salamanca and Cabriolet de Ville are often used interchangeably for this body style; however, the traditional 4-5 seat arrangement favored and employed here by Barker is the Cabriolet de Ville, where a Salamanca will seat two more. Either will have a full cloth top, roll-up windows and folding B-pillars. With everything in place it is a fully enclosed limousine, complete with roll-up glass divider for the chauffeur’s compartment.
Removing the top over the driver creates a Sedanca de Ville; while conversely, the passenger compartment can be exposed as a Victoria or Landaulette. Rolling down the divider, stowing the window pillars and folding the top back entirely yields a topless Sedanca of immense presence and grace. Rolls-Royce introduced the Silver Ghost in 1906, and improved it incrementally through its 19-year run. In truth, it is properly the 40/50 Model, but a famous all-silver car from 1907 lent its name informally to the entire line.
As a very late production 1923 Silver Ghost, this car benefits from servo-assisted front brakes and 4-speed transmission, as well as the model’s 7.5-liter inline-six engine. 35NK was long in the custody of Frank Cooke, a technical director of the Rolls-Royce club of America, and whose Vintage Rolls-Royce Garage in Massachusetts was a mecca for lovers of the marque. It was restored in the early 1980s by owner Al Kohnle, and appears to have been carefully maintained since then. Browsing through old issues of club gazette The Flying Lady shows 35NK at events throughout the years and has been part of a noted New Mexico collection.
Relatively recent use on tours has demonstrated this Silver Ghost’s fitness for driving, as well as the versatility of the Cabriolet de Ville top. London’s Barker & Co. Ltd. was the semi-official coachbuilder for Rolls-Royce, as C.S. Rolls preferred their bodywork to all others. It is here applied to the last of the Silver Ghosts, the magnificent Flying Lady that earned Rolls-Royce the reputation it has enjoyed to this day.
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