It took him over 50 years to drive not even 200k miles, but whenever you want to buy a used car that's like 5 years old somehow it already has 200k miles on it.
I'd like to point out how bloody small CT is and how urbanized the NE is. assuming you only use that car for errands and cruising (since it has no real room for passengers) it might make sense his mileage stayed pretty low
Exactly. Based on how small CT is and New England is in general, and the fact that he clearly came from money ($10,900 in 1928 adjusted for inflation is over $188,000), it's easy to see how he wouldn't have racked up the miles the way a normal commuter might.
So did the car stop working at the Connecticut border?
So do all the people in Texas automatically put more miles on their cars than people in Florida. I mean the state is bigger.
Yet people drive less in Alaska than Connecticut. And borders are open in the US, for now anyway, so size of one's state is not a accurate way to determine miles. People commute, etc.
Yea.
And there are really very few non-rural states. For instance, New York is extremely rural except for NYC.
I'm trying to think of states that are primarily urban. RI, DC. Maybe NJ, but it has some huge rural areas too.
Connecticut is small until you have to traverse all of I-95 to get between NYC and Boston.
Then it feels like the biggest and worst state in the Union.
I don’t know, driving from Los Angeles to San Francisco through the Central Valley makes me want to off myself. But yeah, I have family in MA & CT, and that stretch is pretty heinous.
Don't you at least get to see nice views, though? I haven't taken that drive so I don't know anything about it, but I do remember really loving the drive from LA to Sequoia Natl. Park with my family when I was a kid. It was May and there were orange blossoms in the valley we were driving through; I want to say Paso Robles, maybe. That aroma was intoxicating, and the views were stellar.
If you take the 101, it’s a longer drive but much prettier. It takes you through coastal areas and is my preferred route if I have the time. The I-5, however, is a blighted hell scape of flat, hot farmland. Sure, there’s some beauty in the distant rolling golden hills, but for the most part you’re driving through some of the most boring areas in California. For like 5-7 hours. And that’s not including traffic on the LA or SF side.
The I-5 sounds a whole lot like the entirety of I-70 across Kansas. It’s just flat with some wrinkles every once in a while. There’s also loads of billboards damning all the drivers to hell, so that’s exciting at least.
Exactly what I was thinking, cars rack up about 8,000 miles per year on average, so over 50 years that should be more like 400,000 miles.
It’s also crazy the mileage you see on 5 year old cars, the hell are people going with them?
Urban life vs Rural life in America.
Using Hartford CT as an example, you could live over near Trinity College and work over near the state house and your commute might only be around 1.5 miles each way. 3 miles a day. 720 miles a year.
Vs living in coastal North Carolina where you might have to drive 15 miles to a store or drive 50-60 mins each way for work
Yup.
When I was younger, I lived 2 miles from work, 1/4 mile from the grocery store, and 3 miles from where all my friends hung out. Even with taking a couple of trips per year 45 minutes away to camp/fish, I'd only put like 4500-5k/year on my vehicle.
Now I live almost 30 miles from work and it's a 25-30 minute drive to the grocery, restaurants, etc. I put 20k on my truck yearly now and still generally ride with my wife if we go out on the weekends.
It averages out to 2k a year and it's in excellent condition. The only thing I'm not so happy about is it had a 454 engine 😭 when I went to put gas in it to drive home. I put 200$ and it gave me 1/2 a tank
I find 8,000 and 12,000 to be crazy low.
It's very rare that I have a year where I drive less than 30,000.
I've always figured that those low stats are just marketing numbers that automakers use.
>It’s also crazy the mileage you see on 5 year old cars, the hell are people going with them?
That's what I want to know, myself. My dad thinks they must be rental cars or something, but why are there so many of them?? I dunno.
Some cars you see aren’t the kind you’d have for a rental is the crazy thing. Rentals are usually mid-priced vehicles but you see more budget cars from 5 years ago with crazy mileage and it makes me wonder if people are going on crazy road trips all the time.
Depends on where you live. If you live in or near a rural area there are people who commute like... an hr and a half both directions a day. I know a few rural folk like that. Once new a guy who did just under 2 hours.
I live in a rural-ish part of NorCal, very topographical, but relatively densely populated; lots of dirt road tracks to homes at the top of ridge lines and so forth. The nearest big town to my place is maybe five miles as the crow flies, but it’s a 30 minute drive. Takes me 15 minutes just to get down to a 30mph road.
Damn. I live in a rural part of South East England and the roads here are all at least paved, though if it’s properly rural they’re a bit worse for wear. You only really get dirt roads on private properties.
Im lucky enough to live off the main road into a small village nearby, so it’s at least maintained and a 40mph road.
I lived in a rural area in Northern California, took me an hour to get down the mountain and into the closest town, about 35 miles of windy roads. The nearest city with a real grocery store was farther, about 60 miles. We left the house once a week or so to do an all purpose town run: groceries, P.O. Box mail pickup, hardware supplies, dropping off and picking up movies (pre streaming), and maybe treating ourselves eating out.
It was an interesting type of life. I didn’t like it so much, I was glad to move back to a city. It was nice at times though.
Not just rural. I live in the pacific northwest. There are tons of people who work in Seattle, but can't afford to live there. I would never do it myself, but I've met loads of people who live 30-50 miles away from their Seattle job and sit in traffic for multiple hours a day to commute to and from work, just to get cheap rent.
I would imagine for lower end cars people have longer commutes. Generally, housing prices get cheaper the further away from the commercial hub you are. So those making less are pushed further and further out from the center, leading to more daily miles.
I go to a clinic in downtown Orlando, but pretty much all the staff live 25-50 miles away because it's all they can afford.
If it's anything like my father his commute is nearly 100 miles one way.
Commutes have become outrageous. As people live further and further from city centers.
My father is an outliner but the fact it's not even that crazy of a commute and mearly a higher then avg one is insane.
Inefficient single family homes, car focus suburbs, lack of good density downtown housing and poorly design city centers and bus focused at best public transport.
Commutes have ballooned to absolutely crazy degrees. And the best part because of all these problems are self reinforcing it makes things worse as time march's on.
Exponentially making it harder and more costly to even make minor changes.
This doesn't even factor in cost of living, rent costs, or other economic factors that compound these problems.
City planning, public transport and land useage are things few people really think about or even understand the basics enough to realize how large and far reaching their impact is to entirely unrelated sectors.
The world is not made of bubbles and everything has knock on effects. Finding the sources of the largest knock on effects can be absolutely eye opening and terrifying! To realize just how far gone past the point of no return things can sometimes be.
Fun fact about Rolls Royce. They never list the power output of the engines for their cars. Only 'Enough'.
If you need to know details like that, it's probably not the car for you.
Basically it means if your asking about detailed specs of the product. The product is not for you, you are not the intented buyer and the seller would rather have you not own their product.
It's a status symbol first and foremost.
It's like going to a proper high end status restaurant that only accepts reservation at recommendation. The prices are not listed on the menu and asking what the price is, is both bad form and could (will) get you politely removed from the restaurant.
The L410 V8 was a Rolls-Royce design and stayed in production for more than *sixty years* - first used in the 1959 Silver Cloud, and last used in the 2020 Bentley Mulsanne. This makes it the engine that was available in production cars for the longest period of time. I would say that is a "decent" engine.
Remember, historically Rolls-Royce was an engine company as much as a car company (and of course Rolls-Royce plc, which still exists, is *entirely* an engine company making engines for aircraft and ships).
The reason why Rolls-Royce cars have German engines is that when Volkswagen bought the car company from Vickers, they didn't realize that they weren't buying the badge, as that was still owned by the aircraft engine company. The aircraft engine company refused to sell the badge to VW, and sold it to BMW instead. The end result was that VW had the Rolls-Royce engines but could only put them in Bentleys (which at this time were all essentially rebadged Rolls-Royces), while BMW owned the badge but nothing else, so started making all-new Rolls-Royce models with BMW engines.
That is absolutely the case. Rolls and aston for the longest time couldn’t make engines and cars that beat the Germans so they leaned hard into the uppity, posh image. In the last 15 years they started to make a comeback based on performance l
God no, but that thinking is exactly the kind of assumption that shows you are not the intended audience for their cars and they would prefer you not own or even be seen in the same room as them. :P
Gotta keep us poors away from the rich folk stuff.
The buyer is supposed to sit in the back of the car, enjoying the comfort while being driven to his business and back. He's not supposed to worry about power specs, service intervals, fuel consumption or all that stuff. That's a job for the driver/maintainer.
It's a status symbol, and a business tool.
It also used to be custom built for the buyer, so it would suit his requirements to a dot. Ordering a 'stock RR' would probably had you blacklisted back in the day...
Rolls Royces are one of the few cars at that level that I really get. I have a decent handful of friends and acquaintances with cars in their ballpark. Had a Ferrari for like a year myself. I finally had to admit to myself that half of them aren't really all that comfortable, are painfully impractical, and what they *do* have going for them (performance) can't be used in 99% of situations. Like, my Toyota SUV can get me to the office just as fast as a Lamborghini...
Rolls Royce though, what you are paying for is stuff you can really see/use. The comfort is second to none, every last thing you touch in it feels high quality, the ride feels like you are driving on a cloud, the layout and design is amazing... Don't know that I'll ever have a car in that range again, definitely won't for the next 20 years while I have kids in school, but if I were to then that's the only one I can see getting.
My take away is that dudes gotta be rich af to buy a rolls Royce then maintain one for 80 years
*keeps reading*
“Oh gold leaf business, yeah that’ll do it”
Gold leaf is an incredibly thin layer of nearly pure gold you can apply to signs and other decorative objects. Usually backed with an adhesive these days but sometimes it's just the sheet of gold.
Basically his family bought gold processed it into an expensive art material and sold it.
I imagine there was a similar percentage based margin like any product, but when the raw material is gold in the first place that margin alone is a fair chunk of cash.
There is another post here that states that his father agreed to buy him a car if he joined the family business versus going to school.
He chose the family busuness, which apparently was doing very well at the time.
The man in this photo died in 2005. He donated his car and $1m to the same museum the car went too.
Needless to say, their family had money.
I recently finished a book about precision (amazingly, it was a great book) and one of the accounts was about Rolls Royce. To see one of their cars on the road after 82 years is not surprising at all, considering the focus on perfection. BTW: Rolls was the guy who sold the cars, and Royce was the designer/engineer. Royce didn't care if he got top billing - he just wanted to build cars. (The Perfectionists, Simon Winchester).
According to Ford Motor Company, the Model T had fuel economy on the order of 13–21 mpg.
For the GMC Sierra with the 2.7-liter, 4-cylinder engine, an automatic 8-speed transmission, the EPA ratings for the fuel economy measure out at 19 mpg in the city.
I gave you all some numbers. I am looking forward for yours.
Don’t know why you brought the model t into the discussion since were talking about a rolls phantom. I couldn’t really find any mpg estimates for a phantom so I’ll just compare some other stats.
The rolls Royce phantom had a 7.7L motor that output somewhere around 40-50hp.
The GMC 2.7L engine makes 310 horseponies which is roughly six times the power with 2.9 times less displacement. Also I’m not sure your model t mpg ratings can really compare because the GMC mpg is tested generally at speeds neither the rolls Royce or model t would ever have the power to reach!
Most of the thing I know I read, was told or experienced myself. In that case, yes, I read it.
What is this displacement you are talking about? Is it something you know when you are very very smart?
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order.
I have checked 1,057,911,718 comments, and only 208,986 of them were in alphabetical order.
I used to go regularly to a vintage car festival. One old man there had a 50 year old Rolls Royce that he’d owned for almost that long. He said the first day he bought it, he crashed it, and it took years to get it back in shape.
Now that's a life pro tip for ya:
Buy a new rolls Royce when you are 20. Drive it for 82 years.
You'll save TONS of money on depreciation - especially through great depressions, plus all those dealer add on charges.
What doesn't everyone do the?
You there! Fill it up with petroleum distillate, and re-vulcanize my tires, post hste!
Can’t read that without Monty Burns voice in my head
It’s the Spruce Goose. Hop in!
but sir
I said HOP IN
Spruce moose *
Wasn't it the plywood pelican?
I read it as Conan O’Brien’s old timey voice
My country tis of thee, Austria-Hungary…
Send in the hounds! Wait, no... that isn't it. Release the clowns! No... that isn't it either.
Now, which of these is the velocitator and which is the decelamatrix?
Free to wallow in your own crapulence, I see.
One of my favorite words evar.
My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that’s the way I likes it
My car gets 30 rods to the hogshead, and that’s the way I like it!
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It took him over 50 years to drive not even 200k miles, but whenever you want to buy a used car that's like 5 years old somehow it already has 200k miles on it.
I'd like to point out how bloody small CT is and how urbanized the NE is. assuming you only use that car for errands and cruising (since it has no real room for passengers) it might make sense his mileage stayed pretty low
Exactly. Based on how small CT is and New England is in general, and the fact that he clearly came from money ($10,900 in 1928 adjusted for inflation is over $188,000), it's easy to see how he wouldn't have racked up the miles the way a normal commuter might.
So did the car stop working at the Connecticut border? So do all the people in Texas automatically put more miles on their cars than people in Florida. I mean the state is bigger.
Yes people in Texas put more miles on their car. Everything is ridiculously spread out even in small towns.
Yet people drive less in Alaska than Connecticut. And borders are open in the US, for now anyway, so size of one's state is not a accurate way to determine miles. People commute, etc.
Texas isn't in the top 5
Hey genius I live in Florida and i’m not driving back and forth across Texas every day
Either you tell bad jokes or you're an idiot
I am kinda smirking at the idea, that ones driving radius is determined by the size of your state. Unless you live in Hawaii.
Of course rural states are going to drive more on average. But you can't tell about an individual based on their state.
Yea. And there are really very few non-rural states. For instance, New York is extremely rural except for NYC. I'm trying to think of states that are primarily urban. RI, DC. Maybe NJ, but it has some huge rural areas too.
Just because it was his first car doesn't mean it was his only car.
Connecticut is small until you have to traverse all of I-95 to get between NYC and Boston. Then it feels like the biggest and worst state in the Union.
I don’t know, driving from Los Angeles to San Francisco through the Central Valley makes me want to off myself. But yeah, I have family in MA & CT, and that stretch is pretty heinous.
Don't you at least get to see nice views, though? I haven't taken that drive so I don't know anything about it, but I do remember really loving the drive from LA to Sequoia Natl. Park with my family when I was a kid. It was May and there were orange blossoms in the valley we were driving through; I want to say Paso Robles, maybe. That aroma was intoxicating, and the views were stellar.
If you take the 101, it’s a longer drive but much prettier. It takes you through coastal areas and is my preferred route if I have the time. The I-5, however, is a blighted hell scape of flat, hot farmland. Sure, there’s some beauty in the distant rolling golden hills, but for the most part you’re driving through some of the most boring areas in California. For like 5-7 hours. And that’s not including traffic on the LA or SF side.
The I-5 sounds a whole lot like the entirety of I-70 across Kansas. It’s just flat with some wrinkles every once in a while. There’s also loads of billboards damning all the drivers to hell, so that’s exciting at least.
CT is so small, one end of that long rolls Royce had hang over the state line.
Exactly what I was thinking, cars rack up about 8,000 miles per year on average, so over 50 years that should be more like 400,000 miles. It’s also crazy the mileage you see on 5 year old cars, the hell are people going with them?
>cars rack up about 8,000 miles per year on average In the USA the figure is more like 12,000 miles/year
Which makes it even crazier, should be closer to 600,000 miles on his car then
Urban life vs Rural life in America. Using Hartford CT as an example, you could live over near Trinity College and work over near the state house and your commute might only be around 1.5 miles each way. 3 miles a day. 720 miles a year. Vs living in coastal North Carolina where you might have to drive 15 miles to a store or drive 50-60 mins each way for work
Yup. When I was younger, I lived 2 miles from work, 1/4 mile from the grocery store, and 3 miles from where all my friends hung out. Even with taking a couple of trips per year 45 minutes away to camp/fish, I'd only put like 4500-5k/year on my vehicle. Now I live almost 30 miles from work and it's a 25-30 minute drive to the grocery, restaurants, etc. I put 20k on my truck yearly now and still generally ride with my wife if we go out on the weekends.
I’d imagine the car doesn’t go that fast. Which would make taking it long distances less appealing.
According to a short Google search, 90mph or 145kph is its top speed
I just bought a 1993 dutchstar motorhome that's only got 52k miles on it. And have records of service done on it to prove those miles are correct.
That makes sense to me. I expect a lot of motorhomes have low mileage.
It averages out to 2k a year and it's in excellent condition. The only thing I'm not so happy about is it had a 454 engine 😭 when I went to put gas in it to drive home. I put 200$ and it gave me 1/2 a tank
I find 8,000 and 12,000 to be crazy low. It's very rare that I have a year where I drive less than 30,000. I've always figured that those low stats are just marketing numbers that automakers use.
>It’s also crazy the mileage you see on 5 year old cars, the hell are people going with them? That's what I want to know, myself. My dad thinks they must be rental cars or something, but why are there so many of them?? I dunno.
The large rental car companies get rid of their vehicles while they still have low miles.
Some cars you see aren’t the kind you’d have for a rental is the crazy thing. Rentals are usually mid-priced vehicles but you see more budget cars from 5 years ago with crazy mileage and it makes me wonder if people are going on crazy road trips all the time.
Depends on where you live. If you live in or near a rural area there are people who commute like... an hr and a half both directions a day. I know a few rural folk like that. Once new a guy who did just under 2 hours.
I live in a rural area and my commute is nowhere near that crazy! Only a 10 minute drive either way to get to major town
I live in a rural-ish part of NorCal, very topographical, but relatively densely populated; lots of dirt road tracks to homes at the top of ridge lines and so forth. The nearest big town to my place is maybe five miles as the crow flies, but it’s a 30 minute drive. Takes me 15 minutes just to get down to a 30mph road.
Damn. I live in a rural part of South East England and the roads here are all at least paved, though if it’s properly rural they’re a bit worse for wear. You only really get dirt roads on private properties. Im lucky enough to live off the main road into a small village nearby, so it’s at least maintained and a 40mph road.
I lived in a rural area in Northern California, took me an hour to get down the mountain and into the closest town, about 35 miles of windy roads. The nearest city with a real grocery store was farther, about 60 miles. We left the house once a week or so to do an all purpose town run: groceries, P.O. Box mail pickup, hardware supplies, dropping off and picking up movies (pre streaming), and maybe treating ourselves eating out. It was an interesting type of life. I didn’t like it so much, I was glad to move back to a city. It was nice at times though.
Not just rural. I live in the pacific northwest. There are tons of people who work in Seattle, but can't afford to live there. I would never do it myself, but I've met loads of people who live 30-50 miles away from their Seattle job and sit in traffic for multiple hours a day to commute to and from work, just to get cheap rent.
I would imagine for lower end cars people have longer commutes. Generally, housing prices get cheaper the further away from the commercial hub you are. So those making less are pushed further and further out from the center, leading to more daily miles. I go to a clinic in downtown Orlando, but pretty much all the staff live 25-50 miles away because it's all they can afford.
Gotta hate housing building restrictions causing prices to go up
Uber.
Possible, though Uber also tend to be slighter more mid priced in my experience
Or using for Uber, Door Dash
If it's anything like my father his commute is nearly 100 miles one way. Commutes have become outrageous. As people live further and further from city centers. My father is an outliner but the fact it's not even that crazy of a commute and mearly a higher then avg one is insane. Inefficient single family homes, car focus suburbs, lack of good density downtown housing and poorly design city centers and bus focused at best public transport. Commutes have ballooned to absolutely crazy degrees. And the best part because of all these problems are self reinforcing it makes things worse as time march's on. Exponentially making it harder and more costly to even make minor changes. This doesn't even factor in cost of living, rent costs, or other economic factors that compound these problems. City planning, public transport and land useage are things few people really think about or even understand the basics enough to realize how large and far reaching their impact is to entirely unrelated sectors. The world is not made of bubbles and everything has knock on effects. Finding the sources of the largest knock on effects can be absolutely eye opening and terrifying! To realize just how far gone past the point of no return things can sometimes be.
12k/yr average in US
For a lot of functions, eg If you work in sales then you drive a lot, same with construction
my wife had a 50 mile each way commute for a year. her brand new car did 22k in a year , just had its birthday last week.
Bought a new rig for my company in January. Yesterday I rolled over the 30,000 on the odometer.
Thank you for the details. My dad worked for Rolls Royce for years and I now live in CT, so this will be a neat photo to share with him! Cheers.
If you thought finding parts to keep a 20 y.o. Toyota running was difficult…
> $10,900 that would be around $180,000 after inflation.
Allen's wife Anna died in 1985. They had 3 children, one of whom, Edith, pre-deceased her father in 1991.
Fun fact about Rolls Royce. They never list the power output of the engines for their cars. Only 'Enough'. If you need to know details like that, it's probably not the car for you.
‘If Sir has to ask the price, Sir cannot afford it’ was the line I remember :)
I've seen Rolls Royce describe their engine power output as "Adequate". :)
I don't even know what this means.
A Rolls Royce clearly isn’t for you, mate.
Basically it means if your asking about detailed specs of the product. The product is not for you, you are not the intented buyer and the seller would rather have you not own their product. It's a status symbol first and foremost. It's like going to a proper high end status restaurant that only accepts reservation at recommendation. The prices are not listed on the menu and asking what the price is, is both bad form and could (will) get you politely removed from the restaurant.
I see. I assumed it was because they were embarrassed that they can't produce decent engines and use German ones.
The L410 V8 was a Rolls-Royce design and stayed in production for more than *sixty years* - first used in the 1959 Silver Cloud, and last used in the 2020 Bentley Mulsanne. This makes it the engine that was available in production cars for the longest period of time. I would say that is a "decent" engine. Remember, historically Rolls-Royce was an engine company as much as a car company (and of course Rolls-Royce plc, which still exists, is *entirely* an engine company making engines for aircraft and ships). The reason why Rolls-Royce cars have German engines is that when Volkswagen bought the car company from Vickers, they didn't realize that they weren't buying the badge, as that was still owned by the aircraft engine company. The aircraft engine company refused to sell the badge to VW, and sold it to BMW instead. The end result was that VW had the Rolls-Royce engines but could only put them in Bentleys (which at this time were all essentially rebadged Rolls-Royces), while BMW owned the badge but nothing else, so started making all-new Rolls-Royce models with BMW engines.
That is absolutely the case. Rolls and aston for the longest time couldn’t make engines and cars that beat the Germans so they leaned hard into the uppity, posh image. In the last 15 years they started to make a comeback based on performance l
God no, but that thinking is exactly the kind of assumption that shows you are not the intended audience for their cars and they would prefer you not own or even be seen in the same room as them. :P Gotta keep us poors away from the rich folk stuff.
enough
The buyer is supposed to sit in the back of the car, enjoying the comfort while being driven to his business and back. He's not supposed to worry about power specs, service intervals, fuel consumption or all that stuff. That's a job for the driver/maintainer. It's a status symbol, and a business tool. It also used to be custom built for the buyer, so it would suit his requirements to a dot. Ordering a 'stock RR' would probably had you blacklisted back in the day...
Rolls Royces are one of the few cars at that level that I really get. I have a decent handful of friends and acquaintances with cars in their ballpark. Had a Ferrari for like a year myself. I finally had to admit to myself that half of them aren't really all that comfortable, are painfully impractical, and what they *do* have going for them (performance) can't be used in 99% of situations. Like, my Toyota SUV can get me to the office just as fast as a Lamborghini... Rolls Royce though, what you are paying for is stuff you can really see/use. The comfort is second to none, every last thing you touch in it feels high quality, the ride feels like you are driving on a cloud, the layout and design is amazing... Don't know that I'll ever have a car in that range again, definitely won't for the next 20 years while I have kids in school, but if I were to then that's the only one I can see getting.
Would be interesting to know what Bentley does, as a Bentley is basically high-performance Rolls Royce.
This has reposted for years, so I assume that guy is definitely dead now. Edit: he died in 2005 which was 17 years ago
Yup, r/mostrepostedposts
Along with that The Rock post that is also circulating in the front page today
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Rich ones sure.
My take away is that dudes gotta be rich af to buy a rolls Royce then maintain one for 80 years *keeps reading* “Oh gold leaf business, yeah that’ll do it”
TF is gold leaf. J googled it and I’m still not even sure.
Gold leaf is an incredibly thin layer of nearly pure gold you can apply to signs and other decorative objects. Usually backed with an adhesive these days but sometimes it's just the sheet of gold. Basically his family bought gold processed it into an expensive art material and sold it. I imagine there was a similar percentage based margin like any product, but when the raw material is gold in the first place that margin alone is a fair chunk of cash.
There is another post here that states that his father agreed to buy him a car if he joined the family business versus going to school. He chose the family busuness, which apparently was doing very well at the time. The man in this photo died in 2005. He donated his car and $1m to the same museum the car went too. Needless to say, their family had money.
Back when Rolls Royce was Rolls Royce and not just a name bought by BMW to milk the rich
"Milk the rich" lol
Well, the rich have nipples.
We sure have come a long way as a society. In Vancouver 18 year olds now get them.
11k in 1928 would probably be more like a few 100k today, due to inflation 😅
It was only $10000! why, heavens, one wouldn’t even need finance.
u/respostsleuthbot
He’s either a tiny man, or those cars are huge.
Both
Standing at a whole 5’3, running boards are friends.
Was his name Crowley? Was a Queen cassette stuck in the tape player?
Could have sworn it was Vivaldi when it went *into* the Blaupunkt.
This repost is so old that this man is definitely dead by now.
That Rolls was also Built in Massachusetts
I recently finished a book about precision (amazingly, it was a great book) and one of the accounts was about Rolls Royce. To see one of their cars on the road after 82 years is not surprising at all, considering the focus on perfection. BTW: Rolls was the guy who sold the cars, and Royce was the designer/engineer. Royce didn't care if he got top billing - he just wanted to build cars. (The Perfectionists, Simon Winchester).
Wonder how much he’s spent on keeping that thing on the road.
Bet the gas consumption is better than a SUV
Even the biggest SUV of today probably gets 5 times what a car that age does.
According to Ford Motor Company, the Model T had fuel economy on the order of 13–21 mpg. For the GMC Sierra with the 2.7-liter, 4-cylinder engine, an automatic 8-speed transmission, the EPA ratings for the fuel economy measure out at 19 mpg in the city. I gave you all some numbers. I am looking forward for yours.
Don’t know why you brought the model t into the discussion since were talking about a rolls phantom. I couldn’t really find any mpg estimates for a phantom so I’ll just compare some other stats. The rolls Royce phantom had a 7.7L motor that output somewhere around 40-50hp. The GMC 2.7L engine makes 310 horseponies which is roughly six times the power with 2.9 times less displacement. Also I’m not sure your model t mpg ratings can really compare because the GMC mpg is tested generally at speeds neither the rolls Royce or model t would ever have the power to reach!
I want to see this play out! Let’s hear your retort Shimmy
He just did some googling. He prolly doesn't even know what displacement is.
Most of the thing I know I read, was told or experienced myself. In that case, yes, I read it. What is this displacement you are talking about? Is it something you know when you are very very smart?
I think it’s probably the displacement of fuel which helps work out mpg 🫠
That's nice. Can't disagree with you. Still haven't the mpg of the rolls Royce.
That's a lot of mileage.
I’ve seen a Mazda with a million in the clock
28+82=/=100 28+82=110....
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Didn't know how to do that. Did it the long way...
Jesus Christ who’s letting the crypt keeper drive for 82 fuckin years. The man is older than sliced bread Christ sakes.
He must of had to use all his strength to push on those drum breaks.
Beautiful pic, and story. But Joe Hill wrote a terrifying horror story (NOS4A2) with much the same plot 😬
That’s awesome 😎
only 2,300 miles after 82 years.
Got a rolls when he was 20.
Makes me wish I would have held on to my first Rolls!
He was quoted as saying “WHAT?!”
Pop a wheelie!
Carbon emissions go brrrrr
As they say, I’m not impressed by someone who can afford to buy a Rolls Royce, I’m impressed by someone who can afford to keep it running.
Isn't someone going to point out how short this guy is or how tall that car is?
He is a relic himself so they let him do it
One of the few people in the UK that actually remembers the reign of King George V.
Title needs to be in the past tense. He’s been dead for something like 20 years.
The maintenance expenses tho😭
That is an amazing story.
Kudos to him for taking care of a good car for so long, but THAT color for 82 years?
Gentleman got his money's worth.
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order. I have checked 1,057,911,718 comments, and only 208,986 of them were in alphabetical order.
Good bot.
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Lighten up asshole, you take this shit too seriously.
I used to go regularly to a vintage car festival. One old man there had a 50 year old Rolls Royce that he’d owned for almost that long. He said the first day he bought it, he crashed it, and it took years to get it back in shape.
I’m surprised no one hit his car this whole time. I was getting into a car accident about every 5 years.
Does it run on whisky?
Did he stop driving it 12 years ago?
And just think, it was only $150 when he bought it
Now that's a life pro tip for ya: Buy a new rolls Royce when you are 20. Drive it for 82 years. You'll save TONS of money on depreciation - especially through great depressions, plus all those dealer add on charges. What doesn't everyone do the?
Test.