Saw this one today. At first i did missed my zoom did not want to work properly and had to leave the camera because the light was soon-to-be green. About 20 mins later, i took the same road and this time i made this shot


After leaving the Rolls-Royce i was thinking : " What are the chances..next one might be in years if not in a car show... i went back and took the rear end too



I'm a little confused about the bumpers as most of the ones i saw on the internet have black rubber on them.... EU-Spec bumpers on a NA-Spec Rolls-Royce ?

TOH 653 was a gold Silver Shadow I 6750cc, UK registered Aug 74 until 1987, subsequent fate not listed. The rear plate underneath looks like ABC 123A format with Fxx xx0W, which may have been a genuine UK re-registration, but it should be a yellow plate on the back, so there is something funny going on. And it should not have an SSII badge - that is totally incorrect. Is it LHD or RHD?? Also has the bigger arch flares which came in April 74, so the TOH 653 data could be correct apart from colour - lots of mid-70s Shadows got painted white as wedding cars, so this looks like another. Typically casual RR build quality though - look at the bonnet fit.

The UK-plates mean nothing. A plenty of American owners of imported cars love to place them under the regular plates, often they even buy outrageuos fakes as offered here: http://www.germanplates.com/european-license-plates.html
or pick old European plates via eBay.

By the adjustment of the inner mirror; I'd say, it's RHD. But it also wears the American sidemarkers. In correlation of all these non-original bits and bites, plus the somehow distorted front (the bumper looks crooked either), I suggest to identify it as a helter-skelter-hackjob-clunker.


A propos RR: in my actual classic car magazine is a buyers guide for the Silver Spirit/Silver Spur.
Conclusion: I have to say good-bye to the idea, to buy one and use it as freaky all-day car
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How should i call it then ? 1974-1976 Silver Shadow I or just 1970's Rolls-Royce ? Asking because what you guys said is far from solving my confusion problem....

1974 UK-spec Silver Shadow I all present and correct, apart from wrong rear badge. All Shadows for everywhere got sidemarkers in 69.

Thanks dsl

Weren't they already mandatory from 1968 onwards, in USA?

Basically yes in principle, but in detail sometimes wobbly - see these discussions - http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle.php?id=246328 , http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_318647-Ford-Cortina-1969.html . But all loopholes/exceptions were plugged for 1970.

But the point here is that sidemarkers are not diagnostic for Made-For on 69+ Shadows - a 74 UK-spec would have them.

Thanks for the details and links. This exchange you had with rjluna2 and Sunbar's complement some comments later in the same page explain clearly what could be easily seen as a real mess

Is this Ducato a preview of the next generation of Sevel vehicles?

Well, I saw no side markers on it. Just regular directional signals. Of course now I see where they were located.

Here's the cowl insignia to the thing behind the door.

Could the sidemarker be that white spot between the door and the headlight ?

orange one here

Evidently it was. This is what I've always hated about replacing amber and red lenses with white ones.

Nice fire truck, BTW.

yeah, hated some of those replacements... nearly rear-ended 2010-2011 Camry and 2011-2013 Buick Regal on the first time i saw them because i thought stop lights would be somewhere in the red part of the tailights...

But now i know...

Spotted at the parking deck today:

Toyota Camry Station Wagon

My father had one of those in Maroon. My mother pressured him to sell the thing because she felt it had too many miles on it. He has been kicking himself ever since.

Even more amazing, I don't see any rust. Almost all that I see now have rusted out wheel wells.

That's why this car stayed at Georgia (US State) area