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2010 Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe Tested - Car and Driver

Rolls-Royce continues its institution of making very expensive, very luxurious, and always curious cars. 2010 Rolls-Royce Phantasm Drophead Coupe ...

The ugly ducklings at The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering

The up-to-the-minute ticket on the Peninsula every year is The Quail, A Motorsports Congress, a day-elongated schmooze fest on the The Quail House golf links with horrifying connoisseur cars, actual commons and matured beverages. Unmistakeably, the consequence is expert to the most superior, pristinely restored and inspiring motorcars . . . and yet a few macabre, distressing and homey four-wheelers get in anyway. Below is a petulant take on the plain ducklings of The Quail. Look for our video on Sunday.

1966 Cheetah -- Owned by Californian Device Boen, who was tragically instinctive without a pick up of soup, the Cheetah was meant to go after Shelby's Cobras. Intended and built by Bill Thomas Race Cars, these cars would have "rewritten the chronicle books," Boen says, if they had been built in enough numbers to be homologated.

The car's stupendously other-worldly configuration, which puts the driver's intrude on the create axle, was intended to give the car improve tonnage dispensation. It also gives it the profile of a toothbrush. In any happening, the car was promiscuously and dirty-handling, says Boen, who quested after this likeness for 30 years. When asked why, he could only shrug.

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Which car would you rather have, the Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupé or the Bentley Brooklands Coupé ?

This is a picture of the Rolls http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Rolls-Royce_Blue_Convertible_Palm_Beach_FL-1.jpg

This is a picture of the Bentley http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/2008_Bentley_Brooklands_Coupe_NY.jpg

Rolling in a Rolls. Although, I'm not a fan of the Dropehead. I'm more into the Phantom Saloon Sedan.

2008-12-08 06:14:57 by Jekko | Posted in Other - Car Makes