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1911 Rolls Royce silver ghost just rolled in
Fun fact: Previous owner survived the Titanic
Discussion
did it throw any random code on the obd2?
we’re just giving it a proper detail before Concours show
Ok but how was the cabin filter?
Spotless sparkle, sparkle
Thanks for the award !! 😁
Needs a bg intake service and frigi fresh service and power steering flush.
Be sure to hang a pine tree air freshener. Customers dig it.
I did that to my buddies 1963 international scout race car. It hasn't had a window in it since about 1985. We were at a race and realised it was 50 years old, So I put a 'new car smell' tree in it while he wasn't looking, tucked in front of the mirror. Apparently it dropped out and started flapping at about 100MPH and he laughed his ass off. Kept giggling at it for the rest of the race. Fuck I miss him. Rest in peace Trev.
Kill it Trev!
Kill it Trev!
killing is wrong mmkay?
And don't forget the suction cup Garfield.
Which concours is it going to?
The final detailing should be removing that hideous paint. You wouldn't put steel belted radials on it, would you?
Po420
"It's okay, just change the sensors, it's usually those 95% of the time" - every cousin mechanic ever.
Me just throwing the anti fouler in and pretending I never saw the code.
insert cart can
The obd is a dude in a butler outfit.
On-butler diagnostic
When they did the LS swap they removed the computer bullshit and ran carburetors
Autopilot codes
Mixture too lean, bank 2
Amazing color & condition(at least from the photos)
I'm curious why the moniker 'Silver Ghost' vs. 'Purple Ghost"...
~ edit ~ web search shows several different colors on same chassis so it's the model style.
Yeah RR uses different Ghost, Phantom, and Spectre model names among others.
Silver Ghost was the name of a promotional car in 1907. It was silver and called "ghost" to advertise how quiet it is. The promotion was a success as the car drive many thousands of miles without mechanical issues and was considered the most reliable car in the world. Afterwards all cars of this model were known as the "Silver Ghost" even though the official name was the Rolls Royce 40/50.
Ehh... it really is more of a burgundy.
It has clearly had a top of the line restoration at some point. It looks brand new.
Those guages are incredible. Must be something to see them all in action
Looks like the speedo goes up to 120mph. Feels optimistic.
I admire and respect how the gauges are directly reading the pressure via those tiny pipes. Imagine if someone accidentally knocks the oil gauge and cracks that line. You'd have a fine mist of hot oil spraying everywhere.
They didn’t have electrical sensors for cars back then, only way to read them was in the gauge itself. They were doing until the 60s on American cars. My dad’s 1963 corvette has an oil line to the gauge in the dash.
Hey, at least the oil pressure is only just barely 2 digits!
Judging by the hood it’s a possibly a straight eight, maybe 80 horsepower, it’s probably less than 2 tons, so if you had enough road and it was straight and flat enough I bet it could. I mean people raced at those speeds then.
It looks so light and lean though, although I don't know if it's partially offset by heavier metal construction, wood, chrome, etc
Given the driver's side I wonder if it's kph
Driver on the right and a Rolls Royce sounds like a British car to me, so mph
It's hard to tell but I think it's "-es per hour" which I'll assume is miles (but I guess could be kilometres if spelled that way)
The text looks like "MILES" to me, and none of the other gauges are metric, so unlikely this one would be.
MPH= Meters Per Hour.
Sah-weet! I'm assuming gloves, booties and floor mats will be used when climbing in?
I'm guessing at least that if not something else available, judging by the plastic sheet on the running board. I'd be terrified to smudge the paint!
Facts! a stinkin' fingerprint on any surface would show like a beacon on this beauty.
No belt buckles, no rivets on your pants, no rings, no watches, no necklaces that dangle awy from you, and a cord on your glasses. I'd still be nervous.
I'd be afraid to fart on the seats
No olestra Pringles either.
They old white glove treatment. Keep me tf away from it lol
Yeah this is the kinda car I'm only sending to someone I TRUST. And I'm paying about whatever they ask.
tyvek suit lol
Monty Burns wants his car back.
Just be sure to indicate which pedal is the velocitator and which the deceleratrix.
Beep beep! Out of my way! I'm a Motorist!
You there! Fill it up with petroleum distillate, and re-vulcanize my tires. Post haste!
Forty rods to the hogshead, just the way I like it.
40 rods is about an eighth of a mile
One hogshead is about 63 gallons
He's more of a maroon Stutz Bearcat man
Are those gas powered headlights and tail lights?
Amazing rig!
Most likely acetylene with a central carbide generator.
How did you learn this? I'm just curious, like, are super old cars your niche?
Most cars of this era had a similar setup when it comes to lights, not much choice.
Yup. Carbide lamps had an impressive amount of light at the time. Think old miners helmets.
Dads got a couple of cars running 6volts as they would have and you can’t see anything with those, I’d be interested in comparing the 2 to see which is better.
6v systems are very picky about corrosion and grounding paths.
As long as the battery’s are charged before we take them out, they tend to start without major headache. Definitely takes a few more cranks in the winter but what can you do.
as a cyclist, I know a little about building spoked wheels. How the fuck do you get spokes for one of these when one breaks?
Since I doubt Rolls Royce is still stocking that part... most likely custom fabrication. Anything here can be made in a modern fabrication shop with enough money. Those fancy guages would probably be exponentially harder to reproduce then a wheel.
There's a guy near me rebuilds and refurbishes old vehicle gauges like this
If someone is still making the freakin’ tires I can’t imagine a piece of bent wire being much of a problem by comparison
The tires probably come from a company like Cooker Tire. They’ve bought all these old tires moulds from antique cars and reproduced correct looking tires for people that drive them and want them to look right. They arent cheap however.
You can get them here and they're not that extreme in price compared to where the car sat in the market when new
£300 each vs Bugatti at £1000+ each
But in comparison to a modern car where a tire can be had for say $80 a piece, $300 per tire isn’t cheap, a Bugatti is a different league even with a car like this.
Decent bike spokes are fucking expensive and the skills to build a straight wheel with even tension are an art. I can't imagine there's many people in the world who still have the skill to build a spoked car wheel
Everything on a push bike is overpriced, good spokes for a dirt bike wheel aren't expensive in comparison.
Building a wheel also isn't that hard if you have a decent handle on geometry and have a few of the special tools it requires. I can't imagine lacing and truing a car wheel is any more difficult than doing a motorcycle wheel.
Basically any car part built during this time can be replicated by a decent machine shop.
Not arguing with that. Still, I don’t think it would be that difficult for anyone to find half a dozen machinist shops within an hour drive that could take a well preserved example of anything small and metal and make a new one with two decimal points precision, likely for a low four figure price on a simple shape that doesn’t require scanning. Less if you cad yourself.
On the other hand I can’t even begin to think where to look for a place that has the equipment and know how to make pneumatic tires and may be willing to work minuscule batches of obscure sizes. Likely less of those than spoke wheel makers.
I mean if you've knowledge to make a tyre, for the right price you can mould to any size. I wouldn't know where to start but I suspect if the classic car world you'd know about specialists who can do that kind of thing. All these old cars are gonna new boots every couple of decades even if they don't get driven a lot, so there's a market
Motorcycles and some niche cars still come with spoked wheels, plus there are a lot of very nice aftermarket spoked car wheels available. It's not that obscure.
Coker Tire in Chattanooga Tennessee makes reproductions of all manner of antique car tires. If this car is in North America, the tires that are on it now could well be Cokers.
Agreed. They’re probably all spoken for being that old
[rolls eyes]
[golf clap]
On cars like this (or any brass era car for that matter) almost everything will be custom made based on the old part. New old stock parts are the other option if there are even any to begin with. But wire wheels can have new spokes made.
There are small companies, especially in the UK that specialize in wheels for vintage cars.
Do you have a proper J2534 for that?
Cardaq 3+ lists it as a supported vehicle
Kind of has early El Camino/Ranchero proportions to it.
Interesting...so Chevy plagiarized an RR IP concept?
Wouldn't this be at the time when you had to hire a coach builder to fabricate the body for your car, so essentially every car was custom built?
Body style is like a roadster flatbed truck
Maybe that's it. Stick a gooseneck ball on it.
Stunning! But what is the purpose of the area behind the seats? Seems to me that half of the car is missing 😅
it being a balloon car more than likely balloons and other various ways to store things
Like hot air balloons? Or the regular kind of balloons?
Probably the trunk. Looks like the very back above the the gas tank lifts up like a lid
Doing what you do, is there ever any great Desire by either you, or your colleagues, to go take a quick drive around the block with some of the more exotic Machinery that might come in.
I'm not saying that you do that, but with something like this, the owner offered to sit next to you and let you take it around the block, would you do it?
all the time, but we respect the customers and their cars. we have a large parking lot that we’ll have to move vehicles around, but no more than 10mph usually. We have certain customers that will let us drive some pretty wild cars (very fast). One of my favorites being a tuned RS6 avant that makes about 750hp
Absolutely gorgeous, inside and out.
1911 and still rolling in style, that's impressive!
Now that is a car
Drooling
Looks pretty purple to me.
Perhaps I'm alone in this, but I dislike the anachronistic purple finish.
No way thats the OEM color right? Super sick eitherway, lets drop a LS into her and go to town!
The car came body less, as in a rolling chassis and you'd take it to your coach builder to have whatever body style you wanted put on. each body was a handbuilt one off
Damn thats cool but I'm going to say not a lot of guys got a metalic purple roadster option in 19 digitty doo
Not a lot of guys got a Rolls Royce at all because they cost multiple times the average house.
Yea didn't seem to stop the original buyer or the guy who probably spent the cost of a house on restoration, it's not stopping the guy who has it now to spend thousands on it either. I hear you though, not many people with fuck you money like that.
"You there! Fill it up with petroleum distillate and re-vulcanize my tires - post haste!"
Ok, where are the rest of the Munsters?
I am tempted to say it almost looks over restored but knowing its a rolls I would believe it was that beautiful looking when it was new.
Woah.
I need to hear what those horns sounds like.
What are all the gauges for?
The three little ones are your oil, fuel and temp gauges, the top big one above the steering wheel is your speedometer the gauge on the passenger side is a tachometer, and I can’t make out the one under the speedometer, was thinking clock but the layout is wrong and can’t think of what other gauges a brass era car would have off the top of my head.
Edit: I looked at some of his other posts and found a 1914 rolls with a similar gauge setup. It appears to be either a tripometer or just a mileage readout.
Thanks, I couldn't make them out
So is that technically a truck?
It looks like they invented the pickup! 😁
Holy wow!
1911 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost
My dude, that car is quite clearly purple.
Check it out to make sure it's not plated in gold and taken to Switzerland to be dismantled.
I heard of a plot about this to undervalue British currency by selling it to India instead of taking the federally mandated government buybacks.
That is really cool. You ate very fortunate to be able to work on something like that.
Thanks for sharing
I'm thinking LS swap!
They're I6 engines from the factory... i'm thinking 2JZ
A straight 6? Huh I was thinking more of a straight eight with that long looking hood.
I know it's blasphemy, but how fun would this thing be to set up as a sleeper
Gonna add a supercharger?
I want this so much
And it fell off the lift.
That caption, whoa.
I'm just reminded of Zach Galifinakis in the first hangover. "NOPE. Don't touch it, don't even look at it old man"
That is one of the most incredible machines I've ever seen. I absolutely love this
Nice OEM paint. I would have gone for something snazzier. LOL
I love how the British brass era cars label everything, “carburatoon weak or strong” yeah thanks for labeling the choke that way, compared to a model A of the era is like, figure it out yourself.
It’s not a choke. It’s linkage to adjust the mixture at the carburetor.
A choke adjusts the air/fuel mixture by regulating the airflow to the carb. Unless in this case it adjusts how much gas flows to the carb on what I can only assume would be an updraft carb (being a 1911 car) the only thing I could see it regulating would be air, hence a choke.
Showing my age here, but in the Disney early version of 101 Dalmatians, isn't this the car that Cruella Deville owns?
Looks like it was Mrs. William T. Carter's car!
If Gus Wilson taught me anything, it's to not forget to oil the clutch on a Ghost.
Ah they must’ve come in because the steering wheel is on the wrong side. Only took 114 years to diagnose.
Where would you even find tires that would fit, for a car that old?
That's wild, I just think of all those videos I have seen with people having trouble finding tires for cars that are less vintage than this Rolls.
There's a market for them as the cars were well made and a number have survived, some of seriously historical importance (like the one used by Field Marshal Montgomery on his 1944/5 French, Netherlands and Germany tour)
Beautiful color too
Where do you plug in the IDS at?
what is that hinged wooden box with the shiny metal lid(?) in the middle of the interior firewall for?
Simple terms, ignition coil.
cool! Thanks!
What is it in complicated terms? lol 😉
If y’all lift this thing up for any reason, I’d love to see pictures of the underbody! After seeing Bentleys on similar vintage, I’m curious to see how beefy the old-school tranny is.
My god it's gorgeous, majestic even.
I think I assembled one as a kid with model car building.
This is the kind of stuff I’d really love to learn to work on
Genuine question. Do these things run ok on modern E15, or do they need some kind of additive?
The standard gas we have today is leagues better than what they had back then. And as a fun aside, it predates leaded gasoline, so you don't even need to factor that in!
They run perfectly fine on any gas you can buy. As long as the fuel system is clean you’re good to go.
Crazy how horse carriage inspired this is. I feel like thats the only reason they put the engine in front instead of behind the driver.
How did that survive the titanic!! What an amazing car
“Dig through the ditches and burn through the witches.”
First thing I thought of is Purple Rain song.
Damn that is cool as hell! It must be neat to see in person!
Bright color lacquer meant you had money in the day.
Also driving a Rolls
That is something else
It’s basically a rolling couch
That's a leather couch with wheels
Very neat.
Who was the coach builder? Very cool!
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Shit
That thing swaggered in. Gorgeous!
And I even like the color!
God damn, she pretty. Is that purple OEM spec??
This looks like a car Rob Zombie would drive.
I assume the Counting Cars guy rolled up next to it with a roll of cash?
Coming in for warranty
Damn that thing is WELL taking care of wow
was this owned by the joker? what kind of a sick fuck would paint that purple
Holy crap... Now THAT is a cool piece of history!
He also has a 1914 that he ships to other countries and puts thousands of miles on
The kind of car I feel nervous about looking at let alone driving or working on
See if you can get a shot of the engine!
i had posted the 1914 a few years back it’s on my profile if you sort by top, there’s an engine pic in there. they’re pretty similar looking for the most part!
I found the engine pic of 1914– pretty damn kewl
stunning for sure
Always good to have an oil can on your firewall