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Car of the Month - September 2009
Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow, 1969, #CRH7760
Two Door Saloon by H.J. Mulliner, Park Ward

Several months later than the October 1965 debut of the four door saloon the two-door variant of the Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow was launched in 1966. This model was based on a concept which had been created by William Allen, a member of the team of chief-designer John P. Blatchley, in 1964 and thus already did exist for quite some time before first deliveries of the 4-door Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow commenced. The coachbuilt variant was made by H.J. Mulliner, Park Ward and the manufacturing process with a considerable amount of manual work by skilled craftsmen was different which resulted in a much higher price – not the least reason for the production figure remaining fairly low.

As regards this car with chassis number #CRH7760 the company documents give off that it was from production during the 3rd quarter of 1969. Thus it is one the first from the series that were fitted with a stainless steel exhaust ex-factory. By then any Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow sported a General Motors 3-speed automatic gearbox ‘GM400’ whereas during the early stages of production right-hand drive cars had been fitted with the old 'Hydramatic' with 4 speeds. It is worth a note, too, that the power-assisted steering supplied by ‘Saginaw’ – quite often critizised as being too soft – had been substituted by a new unit.