Vehicle Description
Presenting a very rare Rolls-Royce Silver Spur bespoked by the very
best; Mulliner Park-Ward. On special order requests for VIP
customers, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars would have Mulliner Park-Ward
carry out bespoke designs and fitments to meet customer unique
desires. As part of this arrangement, Rolls-Royce Motorcars
arranged to have a limited number of these special editions made.
This is one such car. The bespoke is purported to have cost in the
order of $40,000 in 1990 which would have brought the car to a
total in excess of $200,000 when new. Showing an incredibly low
23,000 miles, the car presents in virtual new condition. She is
finished in Bordeaux with cream Connolly hides accented in deep
plum. The interior is finished in the highest end and quality
Connolly hides to include head-liner, rear parcel shelf and smaller
pieces usually upholstered in lower end materials. The exterior is
adorned with hand-crafted stainless-steel embellishers to the lower
rocker panels continuing behind the rear wheels. Stainless trim
also adorns the wheel arches. A feature normally reserved for the
Corniche. Bumpers are Park-Ward color matched to the coachwork.
Even the centre strips in the bumpers are highly polished stainless
- not standard on regular Spurs. A badge bar is fitted to the front
bumper, and all signatured off with a unique boot badge reading;
"Silver Spur II Mulliner Park-Ward". The interior of the car is
where she truly excels in luxury. Firstly, note the extra wood
paneling on all 4 doors. What you won't notice straight away is two
unique features. All the interior wood is "quad book-matched".
Normally on a Rolls-Royce it is half book-matched where the burl
walnut wood is cut and mirror matched side-by-side at the centre
point of the surface. Quad-matched is when the wood is mirrored in
both the x and y direction creating a quasi collideascope 4-way
matching grain. This is a very labour-intensive process and as a
result, very expensive to do. But to add to expense, or lack of
concern for it, all the fine-line inlays on the wood, including the
RR insignias on the door-rails are genuine sterling silver. These
genuine silver in-lays adorn the door capping fascia, dash fascia,
centre console, picnic tables and vanity mirrors. One can only
imagine the dedicated craftsmanship that went into this - and the
cost. It is truly beautiful and entirely unique to a Park-Ward
bespoke example. The added features are plentiful abound. Each rear
seat picnic table hides its only special feature. The left rear
doubles as a card table lined in green felt with no less than 2
sets of Rolls-Royce playing cards. The right table sneakily hides a
cigar humidor finished in the best Spanish cedar and housing a
sterling silver Dunhill cigar cutter. Below both picnic tables, are
two opening cocktail cabinets that fold out revealing 2 sterling
silver and crystal-cut decanters and 2 tumblers. All the crystal is
hand-cut, of course. They sit in a tray finished in polished
mahogany and lined with green felt. Both front and rear armrests
house two sperate mobile phones. When new, they were set-up with
two separate numbered phones. The rear centre armrest also hides
some wonderful surprises. In the lower section, where the second
phone is housed, there are remote controls for the car's stereo
system. In front of that a hand-stitched and RR motif lined writing
pad is neatly housed. Alongside a sterling silver writing pen aptly
marked with the RR insignia. And should you wish to jot down some
notes, the centre fold down has an exquisitely quad book-matches
burl walnut finished writing surface. Then, the final touch is a
refrigerator mounted between the two rear seat positions. The unit
can accommodate 2 champagne bottles with ease. Interior lighting is
supplemented by additional adjusting map/reading lamps located
above the rear compartment vanity mirrors. These can be
individually adjusted via a ball-joint mount. These are in additi
