Bill To
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LOT 142
First owned by the late Danny La Rue 1971 Rolls-Royce Corniche Coupé Coachwork by H J Mulliner, Park Ward Ltd Registration no. 560 WPL Chassis no. CRH10692 Engine no. 10692
Estimate: £22,000 - £26,000
Lot 142
1971 Rolls-Royce Corniche Coupé Coachwork by H J Mulliner, Park Ward Ltd Registration no. 560 WPL Chassis no. CRH10692 Engine no. 10692
Collectors' Motor Cars and Motorcycles|12 November 2014, 15:00 GMT|Harrogate, Great Yorkshire Showground
First owned by the late Danny La Rue
1971 Rolls-Royce Corniche Coupé
Coachwork by H J Mulliner, Park Ward Ltd
Registration no. 560 WPL
Chassis no. CRH10692
Engine no. 10692
1971 Rolls-Royce Corniche Coupé
Coachwork by H J Mulliner, Park Ward Ltd
Registration no. 560 WPL
Chassis no. CRH10692
Engine no. 10692
Footnotes
'The name Corniche has been chosen for the latest coachbuilt models because it symbolises their higher cruising speeds and their ability to cover greater distances with the minimum of fatigue for driver and passengers,' announced Rolls-Royce in 1971. Introduced in March that year, the Corniche was a revised version of the Mulliner Park Ward-bodied two-door variants of the Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow and Bentley T-Series saloons, themselves notable as the Crewe factory's first unitary-construction cars. The engine was Rolls-Royce's familiar 6,750cc aluminium-alloy V8, in Corniche form producing around ten percent more power than standard and capable of propelling the car to a top speed in excess of 120mph with sports car-beating acceleration to match. The Corniche received Rolls's advanced split-level air conditioning system along with a redesigned fascia in 1976, and in 1977 benefited from the many improvements - most notably rack-and-pinion steering - introduced on the Shadow II range. Despite its sky-high asking price, the model proved a major success for Rolls-Royce; periodically revised and updated, it remained in production well into the 1990s, the last (Convertible) examples being delivered in 1995.
This Corniche coupé was first owned by Danny la Rue (1927-2009), the well-known entertainer who was famous for his impersonations of female celebrities, and comes with a video cassette recording its appearance on the television show 'The Car's the Star'. The current owner acquired the Rolls-Royce in February 1998 and in the last 16 years has driven it only some 2,000 miles, the current odometer reading being 96,019. We are advised that most of the service work has been carried out by the owner, who describes the car as in generally good condition. Only offered for sale because of the vendor's ill health, '560 WPL' comes with the aforementioned video cassette, an instruction book, MoT to October 2015, V5 registration document, and a file of bills, expired MoT certificates and other paperwork.
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