THE RAREST ROLLS ROYCE IN THE WORLD | ROUND DOOR ROLLS ROYCE
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One vehicle in the collection of the Petersen Automotive Museum epitomizes the prewar art deco school of design and, in its day, won acclaim at automotive beauty contests throughout France. An unlikely combination of extravagant European coachwork on a conservative British chassis, the car was a 1925 Rolls-Royce Phantom I with a body built in 1934 by Jonckheere of Belgium. Like all other prewar Rolls-Royce motorcars, this Phantom I was delivered new in chassis-only form to a coachbuilder. Hooper & Co. was the chosen body maker and in 1925 the completed vehicle was delivered with cabriolet coachwork to its first owner, Mrs. Hugh Dillman, the former Anna Thompson Dodge who was widowed by her previous husband, automobile pioneer Horace Dodge, leaving her one of the world’s wealthiest women.
Watch the video to discover the whole story! This car may have inspired Justin Bieber’s new Rolls Royce Wraith!
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When a car is a piece of art.
That car is absolutely gorgeous.
Agree , but camraman should get fired.
Too bad can't see under the hood
And expensive
If ever there was a perfect time to say "they don't build them like that anymore" it is now - incredible workmanship, design, and beauty beyond comparison.
Thanks for showing us 1 body angle and like 2 seconds of the interior...
They aren't content producers and it shows
Interiors > Exteriors
I think they have been generous to do this.
😂😂
Exactly!
@@RAVISONI-yi5rk well said. They could just make everyone pay to come to LA to get a gander. Thank you Petersen Automotive Museum.
I’ve been lucky enough to visit the Petersen twice, seeing this rolls twice, it’s so draw dropping amazing, the last time I took home a die cast model of it from your gift shop, I carted all over the US for six weeks before making the the trip back home to Australia, it sits on my desk I look at it every day.
I was fortunate enough to see this one of a kind beautiful vehicle at the Petersen Museum in LA. This video does not do it justice. Truly amazing!
This car is driving??! I am an Israeli man living in Miami🇮🇱💪
One of a very few
Most intoxicatingly
Beautifull automobiles I've ever
Seen
That paintwork is a credit to the Petersen Museum. It's like liquid velvet. Truly magnificent!
I notice how that despite every glass panel being flat as Kansas, the designer managed to blend them into the most dramatic and elegant overall form and flow of the body.
When you see Art Deco designs as lovely as this, it makes one wonder why isn't everything?.
WOW! Magnificent car.
Somewhere there is an elderly person who, as a child, rode in the back seat of this car and asked, "Are we there yet?"
I was that kind of kid.
Such a child may have more likely said, “My neck & back are KILLING ME!”, lol…
I’ve seen this video & most others showcasing glimpses of it before.. revisiting here to juxtapose/compare it with that very newest & incredibly insane lookin’ 2024 RR Phantom! I figure if one could afford one of those, said person could highly likely afford whatever the Peterson Automobile Museum would charge you, to “borrow” this one-off work of genuine ART, to play around with & have “your driver” operate (power builder type?) this ABSOLUTE BEAST, delivering you to whatever snazzy event, in ultimate luxury style… that’d SURELY turn a few heads! But then again, as Jay Leno has pointed out on more then one occasion, generally the mega wealthy types, generally refrain from intentionally “bragging” their wealth, as they’d be targeted as being an opulent snob that’s definitely out of touch with reality.
That said tho, it’d still be one heck of an interesting vehicle challenge, to play with for a day!
I think this car just ruined every other car for me.
search Delahaye cars. their 30's and early 40's models were probably the most beautiful cars I have ever seen.
@@diogeneskoolaid8437 yes, I have to concede. I just hadn’t seen this. Coach built cars, fantastic.
I understand your point of view, but may I offer sir an Alfa BAT 7 for consideration...?
Absolutely stunning
This car is absolutely breath taking.❤
I think that just might be the nicest most beautiful car I've ever seen 😍
I would have to say the Ruxton 1930 will always take lead because it establishes color. Really when you see these vehicles I know that a lot of you are saying "wow theirs nothing like it" or "soo ahead of its time" but really their were plenty of automobiles that looked this way, you need to be smart and find them. Put the years 1925-1928-1930-1933-1934-1937-and 1939 in close mine for that ia where each were created to he similar. Their are as well street options, many that offered a similarity although perhaps not 1925, a time later. Ford 1937, Lincoln Zephyr 1936, pierce arrow 12 1935, 1940 Chysler thunderbolt, 1934 and 1935 Chysler imperial, I could go on and on.
Since September 1991, I thought Cadzilla was the most beautiful car ever built. I cant believe I didnt know this car existed until now. The car made me emotional with its beauty.
Какая Красота ? Это же Жалкая пародия На Bugatti . 😂
@@ВладимиртуфтаВладимировthis came before the Bugatti though
@@alanburke5655 Шляпа это Позорная а не Rolls Royce .
What an amazing example of automotive art.
Absolutely Breathtaking , exudes class the lines the color pallet is perfect for this car.
Thank you to whoever it was that brought the inspiration of ART DECO to the world. At 58 I naively thought I'd seen all of the great old cars but no! Absolutely magnificent!
Ιt's really sad to see most of the time a car in three fourths with a guy talking, no matter the saying. Not plenty interior view, no look in engine compartment, no, no no...
This is practically something in between of nature mort and voyerism with underlying vanity. Certainly doesn't make anything to any car. Pure show off with a background (hi)story.
Agree - a totally unimaginative video! We need many more shots from various angles. And does the car go - you know actually move? Does anyone drive it? Why not?
Jay Leno could do a GREAT piece on this!!!
@@copelandart To be fair this is a totally different approach, Jay's along with three or four guys have the touch of the enthusiast and connoisseur, while this approach is archive having more to do with a rather given stock market touch, referring to quite different people, more owners behind close doors than plain air users.
@@arisarsenis3500 , it's different, alright. Like you said in your comment, it was sad to see 75% of the time was chewed up by a talking head. I'll take Jay's approach any day, even when he's doing his 1-man Covid releases.
@@copelandart An involving enthusiast's choice indeed!
The most beautiful Rolls Royce ever designed and crafted..
An absolute pleasure and privilege to see it..
You can see why it would win a Concours, but it would have been a real pig to drive around town with no power steering and a three-ton unladen weight. Probably ok for screaming down the Route Nationale to Cannes or St Tropez....
I’m also curious as to the difficulty of driving this rolling masterpiece of mechanical art. Is it difficult to see behind you, what sort of blind spots did it have,... that sort of thing. I’m not saying an actual road test, but bring the camera inside and show these things. I can only imagine the headache of a flat rear tire!
Gorgeous.
What a splendid description of the path of such an iconic vehicle. So thoughtfully presented and a delight to see.
Thank you
Paul (UK)
Glad you enjoyed it!
The best looking Roller I've ever seen. A symphony in steel.
Can we see some of the original photos of when/where it was rescued to begin with?
Google it, there are photos of it in the scrapyard, bizarre
This is:
The most Art Deco thing I have ever seen
The most beautiful thing I have ever seen
Nothing quite like it! Literally!
STUNNING! STUNNING! STUNNING! Absolutely elegant! Thank you for sharing..... sigh... what a car!
This video could have been more interesting if they left the guy out, kept the commentary and moved that camera around: interior, back, engine, truck, dash etc.
I would of loved to see a start up and little rev of the engine!What a beautiful car.❤️
OMG! The Bugatti Atlantic was my all time favorite car. Now I see this. Incredible and now we are devolving into electric cars.
Quite a few years back a few of us got a special tour of the Petersen Museum basement by Dick Messer when he was still Executive Director. At that time, they didn't have basement tours for the public like they do now so it was pretty special to be down there. He showed us this Rolls Royce and it was unrestored at the time. Painted a silver color as I recall, and not in great shape cosmetically but looked reasonably solid. He demonstrated how the windows opened and closed in the round doors and I see they demonstrate that in this video. I'm sure they move much smoother now. He said the museum at that time had somebody in England doing research on the car for their restoration. He said it was only one of two, or perhaps the only Rolls Royce, to have a slanted grill. Many years later I was at the car show at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and, voila, there it was on display. It was all the more interesting to see the "after" having seen the "before".
Great, thank you. It would be good to see more, interior and engine.
What an amazing car!! Absolutely a work of art!!
How about showing more of the car and less of the guy talking and talking.
This video leaves a lot to be desired...
I guess they want you to go to the museum and see it.
@@ianmontgomery7534 No, it's just a very amateurish video
Thanks for the tour of the car and it's history!
That is the most beautiful Rolls Royce I have ever seen.❤️❤️
This was a truly great video! Thank you, for sharing!
I saw this car in Berlin NJ at the Berlin Farmers market in the late 70's ish. I remember the circle doors and it was touted as the Duke of Windsors car. I paid the buck to see it. At the time I believe it was a brown or seep red color. When this video popped up this morning I recognized those doors. What a work of Art.
This another piece of evidence that The Petersen Automotive Museum is an extremely valuable piece of World history. The world will be that much more ignorant without y'all. Thank you Petersen Automotive Museum.
that tilt radioation gone
Nice to see you, Leslie. Thanks to the Petersen Museum for bringing it up to Santa Barbara for the Montecito Car Classic. Rob in Santa Barbara.
All these stories, any images of any of it? Shift the camera around a bit, edit up some recordings of the interior? Why is this mono position style?
Saw this beast in person at the museum. Boy… it is the most beautiful car I have ever seen.
It's pain to hear that guy stutter about that gorgeous car. You also show very little of the car and the camera is terrible. Please let Jay Leno do a Jay Leno's Garage about this car. He would pay a tribute to this marvelous creation. Thank you for considering it.
The Petersen museum is a great place to see automobiles you won't see anywhere else. After you've been through the museum, if you have time, cross Wilshire and visit the La Brea tar pits. You might stop at LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art along the way. The three are very close together.
Poise, elegance, comfort and style all in one
Such a great video! Most informative as well.!!
You can tell that it is a rather large automobile, however, to truly appreciate its enormous scale, you have to stand next to it!
It's beautiful!
I first saw this car at the Swanton swan festival in Swanton Vermont in 1978. I paid a dollar to go in the large trailer to look at the gold metal flake paint job. Turns out it was not real gold. At Christmas time that year, I observed the large display trailer at Bob Bahre's office in Oxford , Maine. As you know Bob was a premier car collector. Chris Charlton and crew restored this car in Bob's restoration shop in I believe was 1979 or 80. It was refinished in a white color. Bob then sold that car along with a Mercedes ssk race car to a Japanese businessman that was located in silicone Valley California. The cars were sold by Bob to finance turning Bryer Motor Park in New Hampshire into NHIS Na scar race track. Bob eventually sold the track to Bruton Smith for 365 million dollars cash. I worked at the restoration shop for 8 years on a part time basis. I knew Bob almost my entire life. He ( now his family)has what is called one of the best classic car collections in the world. Bob passed away a years ago.
Leslie, thank you for posting this video. Though I do wish we could have heard it run, it was beautiful all in it's own.
WAY back in the early 1960s I saw that car in the trailer that you talked about! We lived in central Md at the time. The trailer was parked in a shopping center parking lot. I remember that the engine compartment had glass sides so you could see the engine. If I remember correctly the engine had two spark plugs per cylinder. I think the story then was that the car went to the middle east somewhere and was owned by a high ranking person, maybe a king or prince. Great video!
Love how they send the chassis to a coach builder to finish your car... beautiful work
Simply divine.
Breathtakingly beautiful 👌
Stunning car matched by the restoration!
Waaaaw ....this is amazing 😍🤩🤗 human ingenuity... love it
Art Deco rolls. Gorgeous.
Would be nice to have a exact replica of that so you could drive it around without worrying so much, what a beautiful machine.
Gothic art deco car for a bohemian vampire.....excellent!
A strange video. 11 minutes of the narrator talking, less than half a minute showing the car.
Totally - no images of the interior, engine compartment.....
A really unique piece of automotive history, I was fortunate enough to see this car in person, wow! Very beautiful!
I agree, more photos! What did the original body look like, what did it look like before it was restored to its' present condition, more of the interior, more, more, more!!
I had the enjoyment of touring the Petersen about 5 years ago and this was the first car presented upon entrance and wow!
A beautiful work of art
Thank you so much 😀
I saw this car!!! it was at the Orange county fair in New York back in the early 80s. I thought It had a funky gold flake kinda paint job. I had it in my head all these years that it had a straight 12 engine and the seats folded down to a big bed. But I googled the car and found a picture of the engine and saw 12 plugs. It's been 40 years now and I never forgot about this one. Glad it is back and looking realy good. And only paid .50 cents to look at it!
Absolutely superb 👌
Stupendous!
Do you have a photo of the original coachwork?
I’ve seen this car when it was in the carnival circuit. It was gold and reported to have a pound of gold flake in the paint... I’m glad Peterson saved this wonderful car. It looks beautiful!
Much more of the car, inside and out, and much LESS of you...please. Photos of pre-restoration would be great to see too.
It's sad that none of the historical photos were shown and very little of the car's interior, mostly the camera was on the gentleman speaking.
And bad framing. Front end of the car was cut off while lots of white space in the rear
The quilting on the seats combined with the colour and quality of the leather is amazing
Beautiful.
Great car. I tooked my time and watched this Rolls carefully. It was a great day at the Petersen Museum 😁
Matt- we hope you can come back soon!
After showcasing the round door, and the window mechanism, I was hopping for more about the car itself, while sharing its very interesting history in the background...
The one I have is a gorgeous metallic lime green with chrome accents. One of my favorites in the 17 car Rolls collection.
might just be one of the most beautiful cars i ever saw
Am a lover of Art Deco which I describe as beauty for the sake of beauty. Spell bounding beauty. The picture of the rear wheel took my breath away. The Auburn Speedster, any Duesenberg, Jay Leno's one off Duesie with tits for headlights, the Cord 810 and a split tail Vette. All leave me breathless. Viva Art Deco!
Nothing like it!
As I grew up I became friends with Cody Bulluck now departed but a gearhead. He owned the only white Cord 810 a convertible, supercharged 'I dream about her. I hope she resides in the Peterson now. And I might as Cody told me he looked at registration records the 810 was the only Cord in NC. The story is the best part of a car and so easily lost.
Absolutely exquisite
Thanks for the background on the car a beauty for sure. No interior or engine viewing???
This is one Gem of a Rolls Royce ! - She is so Beautiful so Stylish ! - So Suprised RR only sold the Chasis & Other Coach builders built the body work ! -When did RR start to build complete packages then ?
Thankyou for sharing ! SB British Isle?
Earliest version of a concept car I like it
Nice to see you and this unique car again.
Can we see the engine? Why no images of the engine?
Why no "driver's view" of the dashboard? What about those controls on the steering wheel?
Yes, please. I know these old rarities need to be babied, but if you're opening a door, please put a camera through it.
Oooh! bugatti altlantic! That one tatra!
With the fin!
Fine company to keep, i love those lines
This is one of the finest Rolls Royces I've ever seen.
It's up there with the best Art Deco Bugattis designed by Jean Bugatti, and looks like it could have been inspired by these.
I'm not a rolls Royce fan but this is truly beautiful
Beautiful rolls Royce out standing Petersons what a place was there 6 years ago what a experience 1st class
Interesting that Mr. Petersen bought the car 10 or so years ago and restored it, when he passed in 2007, 14 years ago.
what about the inside of the car? or maybe the engine?
That looks huge n a piece of art
Beautiful machine. I'd love a deco machine like that but with modern engine , brakes and suspension. Imagine driving it round....
The Godfather of all Cars for sure. "Big Boss"
Wow, what a beautiful car!
IT LOOKS BEAUTIFUL! WOW! 😊
Absolutely Gorgeous.
And so interesting, also it's pretty enormous too.
Lots of presence
Stunning
It really is!
Now that's how you design a car.
Is it for sale?
I fell in love with this car after seeing photos on the Internet. I love the pre WW2 Art Deco cars and this might be my overall favourite! I've tried to find info it on various Internet pages but this video gave me so much about the (very interesting) back ground story, thank you! 😊
I wonder who restored this car back to its original condition. I also wish the white rusted pic was shown during the convo! Such an amazing piece of art.
And always remember that very many RR at the time were one-off in any event. Some coach builders would follow a very standard line, especially on the 20, 20/26 and the post-war Wraith, but all bodies were made to order.
That car is so beautiful
Breathtaking that's all I got to say