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Isn't that one of those "Chinese Eye" Mulliners?
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Lovely eh? It's a Mulliner Park Ward Continental body on the Silver Cloud III from the mid-60s. If you could see the front you would see it has paired headlights that slope upwards and outwards, so it's known (forget political correctness) as the 'Chinese Eye' model. They are around in the UK - Peter Sellers had a drophead version that also appeared in the film 'Blow Up' IIRC. Only a few years ago they weren't hugely expensive, but now...
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Quote::....""It's a Mulliner Park Ward Continental body on the Silver Cloud III from the mid-60s.""
My dad used to work for RR and sometimes brought a Roller from the demo fleet home for the weekend (all above board, I assure you). Once or twice he brought one of these modern looking Mulliner coupes home - I loved them because they looked modern, unlike other RRs. I remember I liked the way the side windows and frames completely disapeared, giving an open sided look. Or perhaps I'm thinking of the drophead version there.
Most of this type were sold as Bentleys, I think, and one was converted to have a much shorter tail, like an MGBGT.
A year or two later the Silver Shadow came along and these elegant Mulliner 'Clouds' were old hat!
Edited by Sofa Spud on 29/08/2008 at 15:07
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All these coachbuild Rollers and Bentley's......memories of Motor Sport and Upstairs Downstairs of a Sunday Evening.
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You can still buy Motor Sport... ;-)
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Quote:.."You can still buy Motor Sport... ;-)"
I think the former editor Bill Boddy is still alive, in his mid 90's. He was editor for over 50 years.
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Yes he is - a few months ago they interviewed him for their 'Lunch With' feature and he's still brilliant and sharp as a needle.
Many years ago I was reporting a VSCC event in the Westcountry and when I signed in at the press tent I saw right above my name, 'W. Boddy, Motor Sport'. When I looked around he was standing just a couple of feet away. I stood there like a pr*t - my great hero right beside me and I couldn't think of anything worthwhile to say!
I Hope they're planning his 'centenary' issue.
Edited by mike hannon on 29/08/2008 at 18:30
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Bill Boddy and Motor Sport's continental correspondent Denis Jenkinson loom very large in my motoring consciousness and helped make me what I am although they can't take all the blame. I was reading them avidly from age 13, 1952 I think.
It is from WB that I learned the words mimser, to mimse, etc. He was a great enthusiast and drove a lot of miles in, from memory, several Beetles, a Jowett Javelin or two, and then for some time Morris 1100s and 1300s. After that I lost track. He kept a dog he referred to as 'the motoring dog' and commented on its accommodation in cars he was testing.
Re queues of mimsers, I think it was WB who used to say: 'It's number two who starts the queue'.
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I started reading Motor Sport at age 14 in the waiting room of the doctor's surgery in our village - shows how long ago that was.
He - the doctor - always had a selection on offer and eventually I gave up inventing medical complaints and starting scrounging the two bob a month from my mother so I could have my own copy to look forward too.
The doctor was obviously an enthusiast, he had a brand new MGB roadster and a 1950s Sunbeam Talbot 90, but I never, ever, saw him drive at more than 30mph!
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Motor Sport
I know - I still take its sister publication Motorcycle Sport which is an excellently written magazine. Lud has it that mimsers had its origins in that worthy organ.
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