Skase was an astute business man, unfortunately the explosive interest rate increase of the late 80s/early 90s caught him out as it did many others. The issue is that the media hounded him as evil, but in reality, the media was the evil one. How many companies have gone under since then, and stakeholders have lost money? Hundred of thousands... Buying shares is a risk in itself for every investor His legacy made Port Douglass famous & the Sheraton Hotel Gold Coast, my fav place to stay
@@deltic Yeah, those old US cars look so poised, at least for me. The Italian influence on the design of the Camargue may make it look a little odd. I'm not such a big fan of the Italian car design.
I have owned Royces for 25 years and I love them. Mainly due to the pursuit of perfection. Each has engineering at the highest level. Would I buy a new one (if I had the cash)? No, I would not. They are now bland and very far from special.
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Are you kidding me? No wonder these things cost so much! Can you believe this? Metal sculpting? These motorcars are a work of art!
When England was great and Rolls Royce were tasteful cars driven by those who appreciated them. These days they're re-badged German rubbish owned by footballers. Such a shame.
Wish Mel Blanc reprised his roles as the classic Looney Tunes characters on Tiny Toon Adventures before his death as he would’ve recorded his lines and read for the parts.
Well it ain’t now! The radiator is beginning to disappear, the spirit is now sitting on the painted body, and don’t get me started on those dreadful led lights installed in the head lining, talk about vulgar and tasteless!
I took ownership of a 1983 Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit in silver sand with Ivory interior. Within a year I disassembled the car had it refinished in a five-way metallic with an incredibly durable clear coat as the paint finishes of the '80s rolls royces were defective. So the car had to be painted. The steering rack was a weak spot in the car so I fitted it with a turbo or steering rack with thicker shafts as those tended to wear out within only 30,000 miles. Then I fitted the car with a harvey Bailey engineered suspension removed all the mission controls kept the fuel injection 14-volt ignition for a higher spark gap and as the British mechanic who serviced it said mate this car is fast what did you do to it? I then fitted the door panels with the wood grain trims and the door threshold plates as seen in the centenary, and red Rolls-Royce badges. On the grill boot and the wheels. Fitted it with the 17x7 aluminum alloy wheels that were fitted to the turbo r's. The silver paint was removed and the alloy was polished. I built a truly Spectacular One of a Kind Rolls-Royce just for myself from all the various pieces that went for the SZ series. The upgraded weather stripping on the doors, and an upgraded audio system. I sold my Silver Shadows to new owners for them to care for them. And the Silver Cloud 3 I never finished the restoration I've sold that to someone else to finish. I kept my custom-made Silver Spirit / spur mulliner Park Ward Edition just for myself. With only 51,000 miles on it it's still sleeping and it's carport. Nearly losing all my wealth in 2008 I maintained my ownership of my special Rolls-Royce. And soon by 2024 she'll be on the road again and with silver hair on my head I'll be an old man driving my Rolls-Royce that I remodeled when I was a younger man. It's always best to take your Rolls-Royce apart and put it back together that way you understand your car you know how it was built because you in your hands actually had something to do with it.
I think any turbo diesel engine in the early 1970s (or any diesel engine for that matter at the time) would have been far too crude for use in a car like this. Today's turbo diesels would have been a better fit.
I've owned several rolls royce cars over the years from 60's phantoms, clouds, mulliner park ward and nothing beyond the 80''s, I'm truly moved by this rolls royce standard why own anything less
It was styled after a Fiat coupe' that Paolo Martin admired. I've seen the Fiat, and it's a plausible story. The rear of the Camargue looks unfinished, like a base model 1970 Ford Maverick.
Wonderful these where real RRs.... Today a RR is just a BMW with Rolls Royce badge... Shameful iam suprised the bolshy Germans still allowed these cars to be manufactured in the UK.... 😂
Aside from the tragedy - it's interesting to note how back in 1989 they allowed the news to film the return and civilian family members were allowed on the ship when it returned to port (1:05). Nowadays they would have probably brought the ship in at night and no cameras or family members would have been allowed any where near it. When did we get so paranoid?
Utterley delightful. I am fortunate to own a very small collection of Rolls-Royces (and Bentley) dating from 1922 to 1997, and whilst I knew it took 4 months to build a Corniche, seeing how much hand detailing was involved is enlightening. Thank you.
I don't know nothing about gun powder, but I keep hearing how the powder on the Iowa was old, and outdated but what caused the explosion? Can a bag of powder explode by just dropping the bag to the floor?. What was the source of ignition?
However, being a Citroen derived system, it uses LHM fluid common to all larger Citroens after about 1967. Liquide Hydraulique Minerale ( green) Available absolutely everywhere in my experience.
Well done, family had a Betamax back in the day...OH SORRY YEAH ROLLER we're talkin bout ;-) lol Saw new 2 door Coupe yesterday in car park opposite us here. MASSIVE German beast.
I love this cars but from the economic view and due to their low resell value (from high maintenance costs) i would send the engine to one of this japanese engine surgeons or swap the drivetrain to a more reliable LS2/L76 engine with 6L80 The winner takes it all. 👍
Wouldn't it e fantastic to find the original camera negative and completely remaster this. It looks like a really high quality production behind the vhs/betamax fuzz
I agree with you. The VHS tapes I copied these from were already at least second generation. For some reason after uploading, RU-vid darkened the videos as the originals aren't this dark.
@@deltic i only can tell you that the jerky image and the artifake which are on the bottom of the picture to see from a worn band train and worn video head and dirty video cassette. There are cleaning agents for this. The video head must be replaced by a new one. Uploading to Odysee would be a possibility, especially since they are not interested in the video qualities. and also Odysee would then have more high quality than just over Politics or archeology.
