Two Rolls-Royce Phantoms blinged beyond belief

It’s the ‘Silly Season’ and this week we have two Pictures of the Week. One is of an American Rolls-Royce Phantom and the other is of a similarly ridiculous car in London.

The first, snapped by car loving New Yorker Marsha Chun-Matsubara, is of a Rolls-Royce Phantom wrapped in silver foil. The owner plainly likes his own reflection.

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A Red Roller – 1995 Rolls-Royce Corniche IV drophead coupé by Mulliner Park Ward – £104,000 to £128,000 ($147,000 to $181,000 or €130,000 to €160,000) – RM Sotheby’s auction – Monaco – 14th May 2016
The same people in the Steeple archive

A Red Roller

One of the finest of the last late-production Rolls-Royce Corniches to be auctioned

A top Roller
The same people in the Steeple archive

A top Roller

The sale of Sir Jimmy Savile’s Rolls-Royce This morning a Rolls-Royce that belonged to Sir Jimmy Savile will be sold by auctioneers Dreweatts. The car, a 2002 last-of-line Corniche, was purchased by Savile in 2007 and is finished in Silver Ghost with Cotswold cream leather seating with blue piping. Savile personalised the car […]

Rolls-Royce Phantom wrapped in New York in silver foil
Rolls-Royce Phantom wrapped in New York in silver foil
Mansory Rolls-Royce Phantom photographed near Harrods
Mansory Rolls-Royce Phantom photographed near Harrods

The second, supplied by the ever enthusiastic Rex Leyland, is of another Phantom that has been adapted by the German firm Mansory (who also specialise in blinged up mobile phones, chairs and manbags if you happen to be on a lower budget). Photographed behind Harrods, this vehicle looks more suited to a drug dealer than a diplomat.

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