Introduction
Darren Rungasamy
Refined and comfortable, the Rolls-Royce Twenty has to be considered one of the finest prewar cars available, 100 years of history.
The Rolls-Royce Twenty (or 20 hp) was the company’s acceptance that buyers were keen to drive their cars themselves, rather than insisting on being chauffeured everywhere. Rolls-Royce's famous engineering development, which set the highest standards of the day proved that the ‘baby’ Rolls retained its attributes of reliability and quality. Powered by the 3.1-litre straight-six with a detachable cylinder head and overhead valves, it provided the company with a robust engine template that continued to serve the company well into the 1950s. As part of the company's two-model policy, the Twenty, despite its ‘lesser’ status of a smaller horsepower disclosure was capable of cruising at a respectable speed and could actually outpace the better-known Silver Ghost. Proving to be far more suitable for daily driving, almost 3,000 were built, which did much to help Rolls Royce survive the turbulent interwar years.
Manufactured in 1923, the car was ordered as a running chassis from the Derby factory to an Australian customer and spent the subsequent 90 years out there. The car is believed to have been originally bodied as a tourer fitted with a removable hardtop and was rebuilt as a saloon tourer as part of its restoration in the 1980s. Imported into the UK in 2013, a further overhaul was carried out by a reputable specialist and was taken on by its current owner in 2018. It comes with a handbook, as well as several publications of interest.
This listing was written from information supplied by Darren after meeting Shaun the owner, and having visited and photographed the vehicle.
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Hello Shaun, I’ve only just found this site and really like your Rolls. Before I go to the trouble of registering to bid and getting a green light off my wife, please could you give me a realistic guess of what you think it might go for. Thanks. Phil
Hi Phil,
We work with sellers on pricing, and normally look at auction sale results, like this; https://www.glenmarch.com/cars/results?make=315&model=2136&auction_house_id=&auction_location=UK&year_start=&year_end=&low_price=&high_price=&auction_id=&fromDate=01%2F10%2F2018&toDate=&keywords=tourer&only_online=0&show_unsold_cars=0
We do not disclose the reserve price, our view is that the seller has agreed a keen reserve based on the results you’ll see listed.
Hope that helps, the best thing to do is bid what you’d be happy to pay for the car after making your assessment.
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