Description
1980 Rolls Royce Corniche FHC Milliner Park Ward 5000 series
Vintage and Prestige are proud to offer this 1980 Rolls-Royce Corniche FHC by Mulliner Park Ward for Sale.
Reg: NWY168V
Chassis number: CRH50256
This Rolls-Royce Corniche is a great example and has covered 80, 000 miles from new.
This Rolls-Royce Corniche is finished in Lemans Blue with the paint being in really lovely condition.
To the interior is Magnolia leather with matching door cards, complemented by Deep Fawn Over Rugs. Woodwork is traditional highly figured Burr Walnut and like the brightwork is in excellent condition.
This Rolls-Royce Corniche drives beautifully and is in fine order throughout having had much money spent upon it by the last owner. Being a 5000 series car is has the later silver spirit suspension making for a wonderful driving experience.
Rolls-Royce's adoption of unitary construction for its new Silver Shadow and T-Series Bentley necessitated the reorganisation of in-house coachbuilder H J Mulliner, Park Ward to enable it to produce new designs on the Shadow floor pan. Recalling the firm's glamorous Grandes Routières of pre-war days such as the Phantom II Continental, these final coachbuilt models were limited to just two, a two-door coupé or similar convertible, the former arriving in March 1966 and the latter in September the following year. Some of the frontal panels were shared with the standard four-door saloon but otherwise the new bodyshells were unique, featuring a distinctive dipping upper wing line with parallel crease, and revised, more rounded posterior. Construction involved shuttling the bodyshells between the Crewe factory and MPW's Willesden plant, a necessarily lengthy process that took all of 20 weeks for the saloon and slightly longer for the more complex convertible.
These exclusive cars were hand built in the best traditions of British coachbuilding using only materials of the finest quality including Wilton carpeting, Connolly hide and burr walnut veneers, such painstaking attention to detail resulting in a price some 50% higher than that of the standard Silver Shadow. Nevertheless, demand for these more glamorous alternatives to the much more numerous four-door model was strong right from the start, a state of affairs that resulted in them being given their own model name - 'Corniche' - in March 1971. In Corniche form Rolls-Royce's well-tried 6. 7-litre V8 produced around 10% more power than standard and proved capable of propelling the car to a top speed in excess of 120mph with sports car-beating acceleration to match.
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