I agree with flunky, I'll have one like this, please (and a chauffeur to heave at the wheel, nowadays).
www.prewarcar.com/show_prewar_car.asp?car_id=33493
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I'm not greatly taken with the front either, but who cares what I think? The world would be an odd place if we all had the same tastes.
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You can't see the front when sat in it!
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No, but you can when it's parked outside your villa in the hills outside Nice. If I had (!) the Bentley Azure I posted about on Monday, I'd waste hours at an upstairs window just gazing at it - it just looks ineffably, timelessly right. The Phantom, to my eye, tries too hard to give a modern twist to the old RR styling features and ends up looking imposing rather than appealing.
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My fear is that it will become sullied by the F word.
You know, F as in footballer. What a waste that would be
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Funny word, 'drophead'. I first came across it at the age of about ten, on a Matchbox model of a 1930s Lagonda. It took me a while to work out that a Drophead was not a roadgoing cousin to the Naiads and Dryads of Greek myth.
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Much as I like many of the details on the DHC, esp the wood, its just a little bit ' one more for Jay Leno to collect' for me. Its certainly not a pretty thing either although it has presence.
I too, would choose the Azure in preference, in BRG with black or dark green leather please :-)
oh and no chrome wheels lest I get mistaken for a footballer!
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Mulliner Bentley Continental, tweaked engine, manual, everything rebuilt to as new standard including the drum brakes, a proper Rolls-Royce performance car unlikely to appeal to footballer types. Seems to me that's quite a good way of spending a small fortune on a very nice if somewhat noticeable car.
These BMW and VW jobs don't really do it for me. Rather have an M6 or a Phaeton.
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These BMW and VW jobs don't really do it for me. Rather have an M6 or a Phaeton.
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Er, ... aren't they BMWs and VWs ??
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Yes. Not claiming to be Rolls-Royces or Bentleys.
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