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Car Of The Day: January 24, 2010; Lledo '34 Rolls Royce Phantom II Playboy
Topic Started: Jan 24 2010, 12:27 AM (478 Views)
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
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Today's car of the day is Lledo's '34 Rolls Royce Phantom II Playboy.

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The Phantom II replaced the New Phantom in Rolls-Royce's offerings in 1929.

It shared the 7.7 L (7668 cc/467 in³) pushrod-OHV straight-6 engine from its predecessor, being the last large six-cylinder Rolls. The engine was unitary with a 4-speed manual transmission. Synchromesh was added on gears 3 and 4 in 1932 and on gear 2 in 1935.

Semi-elliptical springs suspended the front and, in a change from its predecessor, the rear. 4-wheel servo-assisted brakes were also specified.

281 Continental Phantom II's were also produced, including 125 left-hand drive versions. In all 1,281 chassis left the factory.


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For more information and pictures of the real car please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audi_100

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An interesting Rolls from Lledo. A bit larger than 1/64 but not by too much. This is a big model but these were big cars. This model has managed to reside with at least three different members of this forum in the past few years but this shall be its permanent home.

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It shared the 7.7 L (7668 cc/467 in³) pushrod-OHV straight-6 engine from its predecessor, being the last large six-cylinder Rolls. The engine was unitary with a 4-speed manual transmission. Synchromesh was added on gears 3 and 4 in 1932 and on gear 2 in 1935.

Semi-elliptical springs suspended the front and, in a change from its predecessor, the rear. 4-wheel servo-assisted brakes were also specified.

281 Continental Phantom II's were also produced, including 125 left-hand drive versions. In all 1,281 chassis left the factory.


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NoirGuru
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The All Original Gentleman
That's an interesting colour for a car of that generation?
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james_autos
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I'd put that one at between 1:50 and 1:55.

The 'Days Gone' range which it came from was so over-produced that these days nobody wants these models. They mostly produced vans from the 20's, 30's and 40's advertising well-known companies of those eras.

Every time I go to a car boot sale or toy fair, I see piles of them just sitting there. They can't even give them away.
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Sak
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Ezekiel 25:17
Same here. I can find DGs for only a couple of dollars apiece. I found a newspaper truck that was clearly inspired by the the 42A Bedford 'Evening News' van, it's awesome. I also found a Chevy panel in Krispy Kreme livery when the franchises were still open, it's very nice.
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ivantt
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New casting? Quick! Take it apart!
If these are that easy to find and are cheap, then I'd think taking a few and detail painting them would be a good improvement.

Ref what NG said above, I doubt a metallic lavendar paint existed then, or would have been offered if it did. Even the color of the blue fenders would have been considered "bright" for cars of that era.
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Swifty
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
james_autos
Jan 24 2010, 05:10 AM
I'd put that one at between 1:50 and 1:55.
Thanks for the info. I was wondering about that!
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craftymore
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Support your local demo derby.

It's fit for the finest pimp to cruise in. ;)
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Ezekiel 25:17
Truth was, with Rolls-Royce, you could have whatever color you wanted. All you had to do was suggest. If you were paying $15,000 in depression dollars for one, you should have a say about what color the car should be as long as they were hand building it. However, given that the clientele of that period was mostly peers and peer-dowagers (some who specified in their order a strict limit on the car's speed through a governor, to keep the chauffeur from giving into his more human instincts), you got more sombre colours.

There wasn't anything specially done about the Phantom III in Goldfinger...that was the real car, in the real colors. There was no color chip sheet.
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Truth was, with Rolls-Royce, you could have whatever color you wanted.


And it still is. The current Phantom can be made to order in around 250,000 different colour combinations.
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