Roll Out in the World’s Oldest Rolls Royce
Edited by Jennifer L. Price
Impress your friends this December by bringing home the
world’s oldest existing Rolls Royce (or just go visit it this month)! Bonhams,
a California-based auctioneer, will be displaying the 10-horsepower, two-seater
built in 1904 - the very year Rolls-Royce Motor Cars was founded.
 Synonymous with luxury travel, Rolls-Royce is a brand name
recognized the world over as the gold standard of automobiles. As the oldest
surviving model of this fabled marque, this 103-year-old car - serial number
20154 - is, therefore, a true motoring icon and a priceless object of automotive
history.
"Number 20154" was first exhibited at the Paris Salon in
late 1904 and then displayed at London's Olympia Show in early 1905. Having had
just three owners in the last hundred years, the car was restored by the
penultimate owner in the 1950s and has been carefully cherished by the present
owner for the last thirty years. This is the first time this car has ever been
offered on the open market in the last century and strong interest is
anticipated from major collectors worldwide. Bids in excess of $2 million are
expected.
Appropriately, the car will be offered for sale in its home
country of England in December, but will be on display at Bonhams' auction at
Quail Lodge in Carmel.
Buyers interested in previewing the Rolls-Royce and
registering to bid for any of the historic cars being offered may call the
Client Services Department at 415-861-7500. Illustrated catalogs may be viewed
online and purchased at
www.Bonhams.com/Quail , or by calling 800-223-2854.
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