Guest streamliner Posted October 22, 2011 Share Posted October 22, 2011 (edited) Another mystery from the files of Alex Tremulis...Illinois plates, 1962, GJ II. I'm pretty sure that's Tremulis' Ford Thunderbird parked directly in front of it. There must be a good story to go with it. Anyone know what/who it is??? Edited October 22, 2011 by streamliner (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty Roth Posted October 22, 2011 Share Posted October 22, 2011 Rolls-Royce Boat-Tailed SpeedsterPhoto taken August 17, 1962 (8-17-62) ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alsancle Posted October 22, 2011 Share Posted October 22, 2011 This car was sold by Blackhawk sometime in the last 5 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest streamliner Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 Well here's another strange connection, but I don't know what it means.Take a closer look at the photo ID's for Tremulis' 1962 Seattle-ite clay and the Syd Mead - Alex Tremulis 1962 Gyron photos:The photo series for both of Ford's show cars seem to match the sequence for the Rolls. If you extrapolate the dates and series numbers, they end up real close in the sequence for August 17, 1962.So is there any way Ford was involved in the restoration or recreation of the Rolls, or did Tremulis use the same photographer he used for the Advanced Styling section at Ford? Or is it something else? If these are Ford photos, then this would probably be in Ann Arbor. Anyone recognize the buildings? Also, the badge that the man is wearing appears to be a club badge, not Ford. The Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg meet was starting just two weeks later on August 31, 1962. Maybe something?It's baffling... :confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest streamliner Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 Thanks, alsancle, for the direction! Also a special thanks to Chris Clarke at Blackhawk for some more bits of info. Here's what I've pieced together:This car is known as the 1930 Phantom II 179XJ Barker boat-tail roadster. It was built for the Majarajah of Rewa of India as a hunting car. It was exhibited when new as the London show car, probably by Barker. In 1962 it was owned by V.F. Mashek who also had at one point a 1936 Hispano-Suiza and a Type 57 Bugatti he imported from Europe.In 1962, the Rolls Royce Owners Club met at the Henry Ford and Greenfield Village from August 16th through the 19th. In the RROC newsletter, the car is shown on the field where it had "excited the Ford Advanced Stylists there." There's a photo of the car in the newsletter with what looks like maybe Alex Tremulis looking at the car.So... What seems to have happened is that Tremulis' Advanced Styling Studio took a break to look at the cars on display. He probably decided to have the Ford photographer take a few shots of the car for their own files and that's why it's got the Ford serial numbers in the photos.Thanks, again, for filling in the missing blanks on this one... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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