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Awesome! A little trivia.....the front fascia had to be made in the USA and shipped over to Australia as we couldn't make the fibre glass parts at that time.

Such a lovingly prepared video...an ode to this gentleman's obvious love for the Silver Dawn.

Definitely and improvement since I had it im glad she went to a good home ❤

Beautiful 😍

Stunning cars though !!

Rolls Royce's were finally assembled in the Crewe factory but the body shells were made made by Pressed Steel Fisher (PSF) in Cowley Oxford. I went on a tour of the sheet metal Shop in 1982 and saw the area where completed body shells were being 'leaded', it was like it's own little Rolls Royce factory quite separate from where the BL panels were being pressed and only RR staff were allowed in there..................can't say I remember much in the way of fume extraction.

Lead finishing was commonly used but the people that did it all DIED! Get it now?

Gotta wonder how much weight all that lead ads!

My grandfather worked for Fisher Body of St.Louis from 1929 until 1964 when he retired and his job was to lead all the seams where panels were joined and unfinished. My oldest brother still has all the tools my grandpa used, paddles, etc.... it's an art.

was the steel overlapped then spot welded then leaded???? ... excellent vid thank you....

That thing must go down the road like a Lead Zeppelin.

I would get the lead off and have it repainted. Lead stays where it lands IT NEVER BREAKS DOWN!!!! we don't need that crap in our environment

Lead loading

I still use lead on certain motorcycle tins restoration, used properly it it great

No wonder that Rolls Royces are so heavy…

Fantastic car Rodd. . I think your company is 5 Star ! ❤

That wasmt a rolls royce thing. That was a car thing. Pretty commonn on cars of all kinds to 60s? 70s? Bondo does the same thing betrer.

Wow! I'm blown away by how much lead they used.

I like the video but I gave you a thumbs down because of the adverts TH-cam in Google or whatever placed in your video I'm sure you don't get paid for them and it's kind of ridiculous that they're doing this again to me and to the content creators that I view

Rolls-Royce Motor Cat... engine purrs right along...

Interesting! I always wondered what causes those common cracks near the roof uprights on many old cars. I’ve seen footage Ford/Chevy/Chrysler assembly line documentaries, and it looks like all of the major car makers leveraged leaded body panels at one time in the past, just maybe not half inch thick slabs of lead😅

Absolutely gorgeous.

What’s this leading to?

They all use lead in the building of the bodies of Rolls-Royce vehicles. How do you think they hide the wells that hold on the roof in the eight pillars and the bee pillars they don’t have regular filling material in those areas they use lead and they still use it today. I’ve seen the process. They had a video on TH-cam when they were constructing the Rolls-Royce. bodies in Germany

They were as heavy as a hum vee ie lead spreads lol

If it was alloy it would not be there anymore (sacrificial zincs) Lol

Also common with hot rods, as "lead sleds".

The Nardi wheel is so out of place.

Great video!! I always thought of buying a RR and now I’ll know what to look for to get an original.

What a great collection. In fact, I was not aware of this technique and will definitely take a look at that. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and passion.

thanks, I found this topic interesting.

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I bought my Silver Shadow II from Rodd nearly 10 years ago and never had any serious issues with it :)

She's a stunner ❤

Amor é amor seja por pessoas seja por carros amor sempre é amor 😊

Is that Alfred Hitchcock narrating?

I visited as a guest of the News of the World car club I think it was around 1980-82 the Rolls Royce factory in Acton (Park Royal?) they made all of the long wheelbase Shadow's and all the Corniches. The bodies came from Pressed Steel Fisher in Coventry and were cut in half and had twelve inches or so added in the gap. We saw all the under joints being filled with lead, but I don't remember other panel joints being wiped. In fact I went there twice with the NOTW courtesy of my best friend's father who worked at the Sun and NOTW and they lived opposite me. They were fascinating visits to a 28 year old or so would be amateur mechanic

Great video.. why is there no rust on these cars?

I am drooling over those cars....where is this?

Such beautiful cars. I don’t care about the cracks.

Wow... great video.

Magnificent cars you have. My opinion is that you have no responsibility to run through a comprehensive list of issues and critique every model for each customer. Yes if a customer asks a direct question about the merits of a specific model (e.g. Silver Shadow) it would be appropriate to respond with that specific model information but I'm sure you would already be doing that anyway. If a customer wants a Rolls Royce but undecided on which model then you would explain the pros and cons of each. Each customer requirement would differ from person to person.

One rule in life I've learned is the closer you come to perfection the more the imperfections stand out.

Hi Rodd, amazing that I just discovered your channel. I remember meeting you and Monte during the 1980's RanData days when I worked in industry development/Tech Park area for WA's then Department of Commerce & Trade here in Perth. Also remember Monte's passion in telling me about the ancestral Ducal (?) region (now part of Italy?) where the Sala ancestry hailed from, all very interesting. Love your stories behind these beautiful examples of the famous Rolls Royce marque. All the best.

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there is a video on youtube of a mid50s Chevy assembly line with a worker applying lead to a body with a lit cigarette dangling from his mouth

Lead? I thought bodies were finished with tin before bondo.

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This process is not unique to Rolls. Virtually all Big 3 cars used this technique to join roofs to quarter panels for decades and decades.