The car we are running is a 1931 Rolls-Royce Shooting Brake. It was originally purchased as a chassis only and sent to Radford and Sons Company in England to fit a wooden shooting brake body.
A shooting brake is like a woody wagon for snobby English people with castles and tweed hunting clothes.
The car was owned by the family that ran the Sheffield Steel company in England. It was brought to the US in the 70s by a guy who lived on Catalina Island and wanted a weird surfing car. It was purchased by the City of Long Beach in the late 80s to run in the Great Race. Long Beach was a sponsoring city at the time.
The car was then sold to a Packard collector in South Carolina, where it sat until March of this year. Current owner Jerome Reinan doubts that the car has run 100,000 miles. It is quite original, apart from the garish colors on the fenders. It has its original and untouched six cylinder motor and numbers matching four speed unsynchronized transmission. It has a dual coil/magneto ignition and a twin carburetor setup.
This will be the car's third cross country race.
A shooting brake is like a woody wagon for snobby English people with castles and tweed hunting clothes.
The car was owned by the family that ran the Sheffield Steel company in England. It was brought to the US in the 70s by a guy who lived on Catalina Island and wanted a weird surfing car. It was purchased by the City of Long Beach in the late 80s to run in the Great Race. Long Beach was a sponsoring city at the time.
The car was then sold to a Packard collector in South Carolina, where it sat until March of this year. Current owner Jerome Reinan doubts that the car has run 100,000 miles. It is quite original, apart from the garish colors on the fenders. It has its original and untouched six cylinder motor and numbers matching four speed unsynchronized transmission. It has a dual coil/magneto ignition and a twin carburetor setup.
This will be the car's third cross country race.
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