It’s crazy how a Rolls Royce has taken part of the Parisi Dakar with such a big car as it is, and also let’s speak about how beautiful it is! Well done, hope to see other videos from this channel!
There was nothing left that was original to the real rolls, except the dashboard, grille and bumpers. The body was made from polyester, the chassis a tubular frame and a chevy engine with a toyota gear box. So it's just a home made car with a plastic body on top.
Just one minor mistake at the end, with 3.5L, 350 cui and 5.7L. But that did not harm that great video in any way. Very nice work, I really did enjoyed it. 🙂
No Dakar cars are the original street cars. They are all tubular chassis, fiberglass bodies, custom suspensions, etc. Not even the Mitsubishi Pajeros, Range Rovers, etc. Yes it's kind of frustrating
actually only the engine, some other parts were from Toyota, the wonderful V8 from Rolls Royce would certainly have been better, but would have probably blown the budget
All that early machinery in vintage livery is delightful to look upon. As a Detroit born, country raised American, Rolls really missed an oppurtunity to sell a road going version of the racer. Looks amazing. I want one!
Good video but you get a few details wrong. The chassis was not a bespoke tube frame, it was a Toyota HJ45 frame with a rollcage added. They choose that partially because the wheelbase line up almost perfectly. The original plan was to use the original Rolls/Bentley engine. They made an adapter and got the car running; however the engine broke during testing. The Chevy 350 was then mounted as a last minute fix.
Very interesting videos. He tells us how the most familiar luxury car in the world, years ago was a protagonist in the longest rally that exists. And let's just say, the rally isn't made by luxury cars. But this car is the exception that confirms the rule.
Rolls Royce isn't made to race on the Dakar, but De Montcorgé doesn't know it and takes part with his Corniche to the Paris-Dakar 1981! Thank you for the support anyway! :D
Great video on a very interesting topic. When all's said and done, what they really did was take a Corniche, throw away everything but the exterior panels, and reassemble them around a bespoke chassis and driveline ...
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Ma786sai Dua I relish my 1982 Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit, a creation of indescribable elegance and other-worldly beauty. No other marque no matter how hallowed wafts, floats, such as a Rolls-Royce does. In truth when I’m listening to The Blue Danube Waltz inside, my Silver Spirit actually waltzes with me. I cannot ask for more.
If you’re interested in unlikely Rolls Royce rally cars, you should check out Bill Bengry and the Silver Shadow he drove in the 1970 London to Mexico World Cup Rally. (Motorsport Magazine’s online archive has an excellent article on it) That car was much, much closer to standard than this “Corniche”
Some amusing mis-mash of ze English language… Peter Sellers. One technical point, you should know, the Corniche model is a convertible Silver Shadow. The car in the story started as a Rolls Royce Silver Shadow, never was a Corniche. They might have taken the roof off, but then again, there was already so little of the original RR left…
so . . . a bespoke Chevrolet/Toyota drivetrain with a tubular chassis, sporting the the grill, dash, dials, and some of the body of a Rolls Royce corniche entered the Paris Dakkar rally. Got it.
Ma786sai Dua oh indeed a Rolls-Royce remains a timeless heirloom a life-time of unforgettable motoring such as no other marque might be able to grant, so effortlessly such a Rolls effortlessly easily grants its owner every single time one is fortunate enough to sit behind its yacht-like steering wheel. With that polo-field massive bonnet stretching out endlessly before you, and that ever-elegant winged Goddess The Spirit of Ecstasy with outstretched gossamer twin wings, guiding your journey to ever-beckoning new journeys
Rolls Royce has a long history with desert long before being exported to Middle Eastern countries as early as 1914 Rolls Royce developed the Armoured Car and it was used in WWI and in the inter war years protecting the Palestine Mandate! I wonder if will ever someone will ask Rolls Royce if they can assist them if they enter a Cullinan in the the Rally!
There are a lot of dead shadows at the Rolls-Royce junkyard in Rome Georgia, it's possible to build all kind of Creations from those cars. There's a place in Florida that is building custom Rolls-Royce using the old bodies and different drivetrains. It's the Hydraulics that ruin those cars too complicated and too expensive to repair it doomed a lot of the cars
it's not even an RR, only the dashboard and dials were original. It has tubular chassis, fiberglass shell, Toyota transmission & Chevy engine. Still very impressive though 😆
Watching this I gather that there wasn’t much left from original car. Different engine, fabricated body, Toyota suspension and gearbox. Only the dashboard was original !!!!
What a bs video. This is not a Rolls Royce. It has a Chevy V8 a Toyota transmission and a fiberglass body. Was not built by RR. They only raced it twice and replaced it with a range rover. To be fear it does have a RR grill.
If one can't keep 350 C.I. , 350 HP and 3.5 L apart without getting them confused over less than 15m, I am inclined to think the rest of their narrative is Questionable at Best. But props on the accent making it seem like less of a blunder.
If one cant keep random capital letters at bay, I am inclined to believe their opinion is questionable at best. But props on the punctuation making it seem like less of a blunder.
@@quackman7027 Those befuddled by Capitalization for Emphasis in the written medium as if it were a concept newer than a thousand years old might want to continue their education before attempting mockery.
@@Peterowsky I was mocking the fact you were mocking somebodys minor language mistakes in their non-native tongue whilst still making mistakes in your (presumably) native language.
So it wasn't really a RR. Chevrolet engine, Toyota drive train, bespoke frame, fibreglass body that looked like a RR, seems the only actual RR parts were the radiator grill, bumpers and dash.
So the engine is is American, the drivetrain is by Toyota, the bodywork is a fibreglass replica and the seats are taken from an Alpine. What about this car is a Rolls Royce? Oh, the dashboard.
The rolls royce needed an American V8 engine and Toyota transmission nevertheless.. the 1981 PD rally was eventually won by a RANGE ROVER!! Unbelievable!
Proberably the best marketing done for Rolls Royce even though they did not authourise it ok expact it , I bet a lot of clients in the early 1980s bought a Roller because of the romantic myth behind the car , I bet the sales staff did nothing to stop the romantic interlude between paper and pen to sign the build contract . That said , that era of Rolls , Silver Shadow and Silver Spirit were pretty rugged on unpaved surfaces any way because they were built as tough cars that first , second and third owners would proberably abuse them in mechanical ways , believing the myth that Rolls's never needed servicing ect .
@@ldnwholesale8552 what makes the iron block better if you don't need the strength for the power you're making and can shave pounds? Real question. I get it if it was a blown drag car, but don't get it otherwise
This was no longer a Rolls Royce. This was Chevrolet with a Rolls Royce outer shell. It was even said in the video, not much there was left from the Rolls Royce. The heart of the car makes the car.
I would sit in the back while the Stig drove my rally for me. Exquisite
A land cruiser with a look a like rolls Royce body with genuine rolls Royce dash and rolls Royce grill.
And with US engine ! Rolls Royce ???
It’s crazy how a Rolls Royce has taken part of the Parisi Dakar with such a big car as it is, and also let’s speak about how beautiful it is! Well done, hope to see other videos from this channel!
Thank you for the support!
There was nothing left that was original to the real rolls, except the dashboard, grille and bumpers. The body was made from polyester, the chassis a tubular frame
and a chevy engine with a toyota gear box. So it's just a home made car with a plastic body on top.
And indeed, leaf springs at both ends gives me the impression they probably used Landcruiser axles as well. Still cool though.
they have an entire truck division. like can over engine lorries
I mean it’s not really a Rolls-Royce, more of a replica and also, trucks do the Paris Dakar, a Rolls is small in comparison
Just one minor mistake at the end, with 3.5L, 350 cui and 5.7L.
But that did not harm that great video in any way.
Very nice work, I really did enjoyed it. 🙂
Thank you for the correction! We still need to work and improve many details for our next videos, feedback is always appreciated!
Dude!!!! your videos making and story telling skills are amazing!! Really enjoying your stuff. Thank you for the time this must take to create.
No Dakar cars are the original street cars. They are all tubular chassis, fiberglass bodies, custom suspensions, etc. Not even the Mitsubishi Pajeros, Range Rovers, etc. Yes it's kind of frustrating
Okay so it's not really a Rolls Royce. It's a Chevy in a fiberglass Rolls kit.
It's a Toyota in a fibreglass rolls kit with a Chevy engine.
Not an ounce of it is Rolls indeed.
actually only the engine, some other parts were from Toyota, the wonderful V8 from Rolls Royce would certainly have been better, but would have probably blown the budget
@@zweispurmopped bit of an exaggeration. it has as many common parts with the original car as a race car would have with its street counterpart
Better than today's buggies with cars names Peugeots, Audi etc
... All buggy
Crazy stuff
This is a great video. Quality editing, quality clips, quality writing of the script, quality narration. You deserve more subs.
Thank you so much! Really appreciate that!
Nah not really. This content is sub par..
What a fascinating story.
All that early machinery in vintage livery is delightful to look upon. As a Detroit born, country raised American, Rolls really missed an oppurtunity to sell a road going version of the racer. Looks amazing. I want one!
its not real, its an f-150 with rolls skins
Purpose built tube chassis, chevy small block, toyota running gear. Doesn't sound like a Ford150 but you certainly seem like a Ford guy, Flash.
@@BastardX13 gmc for now.
Sure would like an ev f-150.
I'm surprised by the gmc, it has no reason to continue life but still runs smoothly.
Good video but you get a few details wrong.
The chassis was not a bespoke tube frame, it was a Toyota HJ45 frame with a rollcage added. They choose that partially because the wheelbase line up almost perfectly.
The original plan was to use the original Rolls/Bentley engine. They made an adapter and got the car running; however the engine broke during testing. The Chevy 350 was then mounted as a last minute fix.
Very interesting videos. He tells us how the most familiar luxury car in the world, years ago was a protagonist in the longest rally that exists. And let's just say, the rally isn't made by luxury cars. But this car is the exception that confirms the rule.
Rolls Royce isn't made to race on the Dakar, but De Montcorgé doesn't know it and takes part with his Corniche to the Paris-Dakar 1981!
Thank you for the support anyway! :D
Wow.. just wow!
Thank you for sharing this amazing piece of motorsport history.
Great video on a very interesting topic. When all's said and done, what they really did was take a Corniche, throw away everything but the exterior panels, and reassemble them around a bespoke chassis and driveline ...
Underrated channel
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Unbelievable........ Mighty RR 💚❤️⚡
maybe 3% RR
thanks for the video!
Ma786sai Dua I relish my 1982 Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit, a creation of indescribable elegance and other-worldly beauty. No other marque no matter how hallowed wafts, floats, such as a Rolls-Royce does. In truth when I’m listening to The Blue Danube Waltz inside, my Silver Spirit actually waltzes with me. I cannot ask for more.
The hardest part would have been following it with a fuel truck ! 5 mpg is no joke !
I'd almost forgot, thanks 😎
I read the title, saw the image and felt enormous discomfort and surprise. XD
It's like seeing your rich grandfather's car, but he's drunk and has to drive down a hill.
Sublime production, thank you!
like everyone is saying here, this is a great video thank you for sharing!!!
Do you have any Grey Poupon? Oh shit that's one huge jump.
If you’re interested in unlikely Rolls Royce rally cars, you should check out Bill Bengry and the Silver Shadow he drove in the 1970 London to Mexico World Cup Rally. (Motorsport Magazine’s online archive has an excellent article on it) That car was much, much closer to standard than this “Corniche”
I've always loved that they used the Toyota steering wheel. 😄
You mentioned the worg "chauffeur ", instead of driver. Is it a "high " class lexis?
For a moment there I thought this was the real Sheikh they depicted for *"Cannonball Run"* movie...!
you could say *They didn't feel the bumps*
Since Rolls powered Spitfires Hurricanes and tanks it seem strange that they did not make a rally car.
I wonder why they didn't use the original Rolls Royce V8 6.75 Liter ,that's also a beast of a engine
Some amusing mis-mash of ze English language… Peter Sellers. One technical point, you should know, the Corniche model is a convertible Silver Shadow. The car in the story started as a Rolls Royce Silver Shadow, never was a Corniche. They might have taken the roof off, but then again, there was already so little of the original RR left…
6:52 is that even possible, Wow. How much r&d was spent on it?
so . . . a bespoke Chevrolet/Toyota drivetrain with a tubular chassis, sporting the the grill, dash, dials, and some of the body of a Rolls Royce corniche entered the Paris Dakkar rally.
Got it.
Ma786sai Dua oh indeed a Rolls-Royce remains a timeless heirloom a life-time of unforgettable motoring such as no other marque might be able to grant, so effortlessly such a Rolls effortlessly easily grants its owner every single time one is fortunate enough to sit behind its yacht-like steering wheel. With that polo-field massive bonnet stretching out endlessly before you, and that ever-elegant winged Goddess The Spirit of Ecstasy with outstretched gossamer twin wings, guiding your journey to ever-beckoning new journeys
Jeez how many modalert pills and ganja did you consume
That time a Rolls Royce grille took part in the Paris-Dakar.
I would like to see it driving down Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills.
Does this vehicle still exist ? Where is it now ?
Not really a rolls Royce, more of a Frankenstein that looks like a rolls, but still pretty cool 😏👍
Funny that Rolls Royce got orders for a car they had never made so didn't know the specs.
This is when your chauffeur went on the wrong road 😂
Not THAT time..THE time geeez
Rolls Royce in name only.
Never underestimate champagne and oysters!!
You do know rolls makes jet engines, and the v12 in the spitfire.
Now this is quality Rolls Royce moment
I thought I was going to see an actual Rolls Royce max attack. It looks like a Rolls, but is not.
Rolls Royce has a long history with desert long before being exported to Middle Eastern countries as early as 1914 Rolls Royce developed the Armoured Car and it was used in WWI and in the inter war years protecting the Palestine Mandate! I wonder if will ever someone will ask Rolls Royce if they can assist them if they enter a Cullinan in the the Rally!
What do you mean a RR?
It's a tube-cage with a Chevy small block, a Toyota 4x4 driven by 2 frenchmen
It’s a shame they didn’t try to do something more with the original Rolls engine instead of doing a Chevy engine swap out.
Would you trust English made machinery ?
@@interman7715 Rolls Royce engineering was state of the art at that time.
@@interman7715 1959 R-R engine has more torque and not so heavy but is much bigger
@@nickyborrisino A 472 or 500 Cadillac engine is far superior to the Rolls Royce V8.
They did, but it broke during shakedown
There are a lot of dead shadows at the Rolls-Royce junkyard in Rome Georgia, it's possible to build all kind of Creations from those cars. There's a place in Florida that is building custom Rolls-Royce using the old bodies and different drivetrains. It's the Hydraulics that ruin those cars too complicated and too expensive to repair it doomed a lot of the cars
Ya... Solo que no era un Rolls Royce de verdad... Si no un land rover Santana con una carrocería de Rolls hecha de fibra... Aún así like
Rolls Royce did make fighter and bomber engines too after all so rally’s no worries!
Was this a Chevy or Toyota (Only a small part of the interior was actually Rolls after all....
it's not even an RR, only the dashboard and dials were original. It has tubular chassis, fiberglass shell, Toyota transmission & Chevy engine. Still very impressive though 😆
@Steven g i don't know about all teams, but Mitsu Pajero in their early years entered with almost stock configuration and won many times.
Very few rolls parts used.
Watching this I gather that there wasn’t much left from original car. Different engine, fabricated body, Toyota suspension and gearbox. Only the dashboard was original !!!!
Bizarly enoug... "corniche" is also the name for a flat roof's gutter...
What a bs video. This is not a Rolls Royce. It has a Chevy V8 a Toyota transmission and a fiberglass body. Was not built by RR. They only raced it twice and replaced it with a range rover. To be fear it does have a RR grill.
Very interesting, not much of a Rolls Royce in the end though
Why would an RR automobile participating in a rally be surprising? It is "The Best Car in the World."
This is the same company from which King Jai Singh Ji Maharaj of India got the work done to pick up the garbage and even today Indians remember this
If one can't keep 350 C.I. , 350 HP and 3.5 L apart without getting them confused over less than 15m, I am inclined to think the rest of their narrative is Questionable at Best.
But props on the accent making it seem like less of a blunder.
If one cant keep random capital letters at bay, I am inclined to believe their opinion is questionable at best. But props on the punctuation making it seem like less of a blunder.
@@quackman7027 Those befuddled by Capitalization for Emphasis in the written medium as if it were a concept newer than a thousand years old might want to continue their education before attempting mockery.
@@Peterowsky Long words ≠ smart.
@@quackman7027 As you have so clearly demonstrated in your own replies, even as you were just copying most of my comment.
@@Peterowsky I was mocking the fact you were mocking somebodys minor language mistakes in their non-native tongue whilst still making mistakes in your (presumably) native language.
So it wasn't really a RR. Chevrolet engine, Toyota drive train, bespoke frame, fibreglass body that looked like a RR, seems the only actual RR parts were the radiator grill, bumpers and dash.
a Rolls Royce with what looks like ford leaf springs on a solid front axle, pretty sure that is nit stock
I'm just thinking? Is that bike still out there? Middle of nowhere
It wasn’t even remotely a Rolls Royce. Aside from the dashboard nothing was original car.
Sorry, the bits that weren't fibreglass.
Boot, dash and dials.
well, really, these grand tours can be measured different ways, not just by speed, perhaps style, or panache, or gambling, or just outlandish drinkin
Ah so it wasnt really a Rolls Royce but a Chevrolet with a Rolls body...
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Yes 100% interesting
So the engine is is American, the drivetrain is by Toyota, the bodywork is a fibreglass replica and the seats are taken from an Alpine. What about this car is a Rolls Royce? Oh, the dashboard.
Cool "Rolls Royce" 😅
The rolls royce needed an American V8 engine and Toyota transmission nevertheless.. the 1981 PD rally was eventually won by a RANGE ROVER!! Unbelievable!
That time a Ford-Toyota that happened to look like a Rolls-Royce took part in the Paris-Dakar?
So it wasnt a Rolls Royce at all. It had a Chevy engine, Land Cruiser 4wd system and a fiberglass replica of RR Chorniche.
reds title; deciphers that took part in does not equal won
watches video to see how bad it did
Rolls-Royce is actually not British any more, its German owned.
Interesting video.
Proberably the best marketing done for Rolls Royce even though they did not authourise it ok expact it , I bet a lot of clients in the early 1980s bought a Roller because of the romantic myth behind the car , I bet the sales staff did nothing to stop the romantic interlude between paper and pen to sign the build contract . That said , that era of Rolls , Silver Shadow and Silver Spirit were pretty rugged on unpaved surfaces any way because they were built as tough cars that first , second and third owners would proberably abuse them in mechanical ways , believing the myth that Rolls's never needed servicing ect .
fffff lol they swapped a Chevy small block in. LS SWAP THE WORLD.
They fitted a REAL small block,, not the alloy pretender!
@@ldnwholesale8552 what makes the iron block better if you don't need the strength for the power you're making and can shave pounds? Real question. I get it if it was a blown drag car, but don't get it otherwise
But a real Rolls Royce took part in the Mexico Rally about ten years earlier.
In the end it wasn't really a rolls Royce's was it 🤔
350 horses ???
So it's a Toyota with a Chevy engine wearing a fiberglass rolls Royce body?
more dakaf
How to make a RR reliable : Put a Chevy V8 and a Toyota Transmission in it 😂😂😂
Its not a rolls at the end
Eating oysters in the desert.
Good way to get dysentery.
So, it's not a RR.
Soooo its not a Rolls, its a pavement special, almost like Frankenstein, put together with different parts
Heck thats normal for a Dakar rally car,they never are bock standard,never!
where's the video on the awful looking 6x4?
That hardly counts.
Chevy engine, Toyota drivetrain, custom tube chassis, body panels?
The only thing original is the dash?
Pajero could run 170 Imphal approximately in one day race but roll Royce only 150 kph
This wasn’t a Rolls Royce anymore...
Mitsubishi could match the roll Royce
This was no longer a Rolls Royce. This was Chevrolet with a Rolls Royce outer shell.
It was even said in the video, not much there was left from the Rolls Royce.
The heart of the car makes the car.
How stupid to wreck a car such as this by taking part in totally unnecessary so called rally ,what an idiot at the wheel some people !