A Rolls-Royce Phantom with some Hollywood history stops by Jay Leno's Garage.
is the automaker's flagship luxury car, in part because of the pedigree built up by predecessors like the 1930 model featured on this episode of"Jay Leno's Garage."
It's one of many impressive classic cars from California's Nethercutt Collection, and it's also one one of 25 examples with bodies from New York coachbuilder Brewster. This one features the so-called town car configuration, where an open cockpit sits at the front and a closed passenger compartment at the back.
Also setting this car apart is the wicker-like detailing on the rear doors. It took a father-and-son team a month to reproduce this during the car's restoration, Nethercutt Collection Vice President Cameron Richards says in the video. Rolls-Royce is still incorporating intricate details like this into modern bespoke builds likeRiding on a 150-inch wheelbase, the Phantom weighs about 7,000 pounds, according to Richards.
It was also rented out as a movie prop at a rate of $250 a day at one point, which was more than most actors made at the time, Richards says. Leno and Richards judge the Phantom to be a comfortable cruiser, but not as fast the Duesenbergs this car would have been compared to in its day. That's appropriate given Rolls-Royce's traditional emphasis on comfort over speed, and the relatively primitive brakes are not up to the task of quick stops, anyway.
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