Boasting what its manufacturer had learned from its decades of experience with aeroengines, the Phantom III was always silky-smooth and powerful, but its proportions did not lend itself easily to beautiful coachwork. There were a handful of exceptions, prominent among them this car, chassis 3BT149, dressed with a unique sedanca coupe body by Bar..
This Rolls-Royce Phantom II Continental Tourer, chassis 4PY, was specified with a unique open four-door tourer body by Barker. Its specifications included a special 58" hood, with a long row of louvers extending into the cowl, as well as a chrome-plated dashboard with white instrument dials, a speedometer in miles and kilometers, and a Dover spr..
The Rolls-Royce Twenty served as the smaller companion to the flagship Silver Ghost and Phantom models. Just under 3,000 units were built between 1922 and 1929, each sold as rolling chassis and delivered to independent coachbuilders. With the 20 HP being smaller and lighter than its flagship siblings, many buyers selected sporting coachwork suited ..
The Peerless Company of Cleveland, Ohio was, for a brief period, one of America’s most exclusive automobile companies. Along with Packard and Pierce-Arrow, the trio of car makers known as “The Three Ps,” was equally revered for their quality, refinement, and engineering excellence. The route Peerless took to automobile manufacturing was remarkably ..
Buick’s largest and most expensive offering from 1912, powered by a 318 cubic-inch, “valve in head” inline-four rated for 48 horsepower. This is one of approximately 15 known survivors, sporting a lovely, well-maintained older restoration, and pleasingly detailed with period-correct accessories. Discreetly updated for touring with electric start, a..
An impressively substantial, very handsome and well-proportioned traditional limousine, in generally smart, sound condition. Nicely painted in black and pale yellow, although there are some blemishes and defects to the paintwork, but overall the appearance is good, attractively set off by the polished aluminium wheel discs, correct P100 headligh..
This car is a particularly smart, sound, very useable example of a spacious limousine from the 1930s, finished in an attractive shade of blue, including the Ace wheel discs, with black wings, black leather interior to the front, and light tan cloth to the rear (including the large occasional seats), all enhanced by particularly attractive wood v..
A handsome, spacious and correct saloon, which has benefitted greatly from various attention in recent times, including a new cylinder head, re-cored radiator with new calorstat, new clutch and ring gear, starter and dynamo overhauled, attention to brakes, complete re-upholstery in lovely, soft but durable brown leather, new headlining, carpets,..
As a young man, Raymond Stanley was undoubtedly the envy of his classmates; his father and uncle owned an automobile company and could build cars to order. The Stanley twins, F.E. and F.O., were America’s premier manufacturers of steam cars; their cars became the standard to which all others were measured. Between 1908 and 1916, their Stanley Motor..