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A FAITHFUL RENDERING; 1934 ROLLS-ROYCE 20/25 PARK WARD TOURING SALOON.
Byline: JOHN F. KATZ
Possibly one of the most elegantly handsome Rolls-Royce motorcars ever was the Phantom II Continental close-coupled Sport Saloon exhibited by coachbuilder Park Ward on its London show stand in 1933.
This is not that car. But it is a near-perfect scale rendering of it, artfully adapted from the 12-foot wheelbase of the Continental to the 11-foot span of the smaller and less costly Rolls-Royce 20/25. The show car's gracefully falling beltline is faithfully reproduced, underscored by the same tapered molding. The 12-inch difference seems to have come out of the hood and the rear doors. Unconfirmed legend says it is one of three cars so constructed before the management in Derby decided the abbreviated rear doors did not permit a well-dressed lady to enter or exit the rear seat with dignity.
Park Ward did catalog a more conservatively rectilinear (and presumably more practical) close-coupled saloon for the 20/25, itself based on one of the coachbuilder's standard-issue designs for the Phantom II. Hooper offered a similar body as well.
Our featured car, chassis GED 78, was painted dark green when it was delivered to Shipley, Yorkshire, in June 1934. The Philadelphia collector who began its restoration in 1987 chose the burgundy-over-black scheme it wears today. Ed Dean acquired it in 2001 and still owned it when we drove it last August. (It since has been sold.)
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