Vehicle Description
This is a very meticulously restored Rolls-Royce Camargue finished
in Velvet green with Biscuit Tan leather interior. The waist-rails
are accented with twin tan/gold hand-painted fine lines. The colour
combination is very elegant that presents beautifully and regally.
In any setting the car takes on a very formal appearance.
Contrasted with the rich biscuit tan hides she simply looks
stunning. This Camargue was purportedly owned by famous film
director Blake Edwards as the first owner. Best known for films
such as;"Breakfast at Tiffany's", "The Pink Panther" series and
"10" with Dudley Moore and Bo Derek. It was understood he took
delivery of this Camargue during the making of Revenge of the Pink
Panther. This was also at the time of conception of the movie "10",
which was finished in 1979 and it was Blake Edwards love of
Rolls-Royce that influenced the use of a Corniche Convertible for
Dudley Moore's character in that film. Please understand that this
information has been "passed down" with the ownership of the car so
there is no formal documentation to support this. This Camargue has
remained in Californian its whole life until purchased by us at
Park-Ward. As you would expect of a west coast car, she is very
clean and dry throughout without a spec of rust (before or after
restoration!). The underside is factory original. She has also seen
little use in her life having been dry stored on and off for many
years. The car is so "clean" throughout that we have no question of
its 45,000 miles. When Park-Ward acquired the car, it was very
straight and completely dent free and overall clean. The car was
originally "Paprika" in colour and had been repainted black many
years ago and was showing signs of fading and light scratches. The
interior was clean and complete. It could easily have been
described as in "drivable condition" but in order to achieve
perfection, this unique Camargue underwent the "Royal treatment" of
restorations. The paint job is stunning and was a bare metal
respray costing some $20,000 and carried out by Rolls-Royce experts
- Park-Ward Motor Museum's experienced RR body-shop. There is not a
single spot that shows the previous colour. Because window rubbers
no longer exist for Camargue, these were all fabricated by us
including those fitted along the lower edge of the side window.
Other items, common to Silver Shadow and Corniche, were replaced;
body gaskets, clips, boot seal, and edge finishers. All the bright
work was removed and machined polished and then hand polished upon
finally reassembly. This includes the grille, headlight brows,
bumpers, side mouldings, rocker mouldings, door handles, hub caps,
inner sill mouldings and door entry scuff plates. The finish is as
good as you would hope for. To complete the "new-look", new tail
lamp lenses and headlights were fitted! The final touch being the
pin-striping down the side of the car applied by the original
hand-painted technique using only the finest squirrel hair brushes
and performed by an artisan with the steadiest of hands. The
interior is like new and is brochure quality. Most of the leather
was in good condition when we received the car other than the front
seat facings which were feeling dry. We replaced the leather
facings with much research to find well matching leather and making
sure the stitching and seat padding was made to exacting factory
look. The result is excellent. The rest of the leather was put thru
our hand-finishing re-Connollising process. Everything else inside
the car was renewed or refurbished. If renewed, it was all done
utilising genuine Rolls-Royce quality finishes and materials. The
headlining was in good original condition and that has remained.
The carpets were renewed; hand-made utilising genuine imported
English Wilton wool, with original specification Connolly leather
edge binding, individually hand operated machine-stitched in
accordance with original factory Rolls-Royce standards. Read more:
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