Here's a Tour of the Most Expensive Rolls-Royce Sedan From 1973 

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Doug DeMuro Where is it that I email you?

GWJ&D bigdaddydoug@gmail.com

Haha yes and instead of weekend score holiday score.

Jeff Boski says you

Hermin Pete 🤐

Jeff Boski what if someone was impaled in the ass with that?

Haha same thing Jeremy Clarkson told about the Spyker C8 wheel.

@Vladtheimpaler

I see you have been watching Top Gears India special when James May had a Rolls Royce silver shadow and kept pressing it

English cars; So unreliable you have to check if the idiot lights work.

Kevin S I believe their called warning lights, and its a great feature, we have a Vauxhall vectra and most of the time the warning lights don't work along with the dials (speedometer revcounter fuel gage, temp gage) and its German. I'd love that light to see if the coolant light still worked.

Padraig O'Donnell where I grew up they were called Idiot lights because it was used in place of a gauge. Base model cars use to have a Speedo and a fuel gauge. That’s it. And that’s kind of proving the point. You know your car is junk when the warning lights don’t warn you..

Yeah he didn’t bother to look it up in the manual....

I actually sent him an email saying I had a lawn mower he could borrow lmao

or your wife lmao

You mean a 90s civic? lmao

@@Deadbass_ I wish I had a civic

Doug is just Doug :-)

Modern radios have higher output

no

what are you gonna do listen to a 70s radio

@@sadokbarbouche9427 nah just bring your brass record player and crank up the Al Bowly :)

Sadok Barbouch, uh, yes. Definitely. Every time!

Go the smiths and Lucas electrics, wasn't Lucas known as Lucas prince of darkness because it rarely worked correctly.

My 1972 Lotus also measured amps and did the blinker dance too. But it was a hot lead, not a relay, so you were sending ridiculous amounts of power to the dash. I almost had a fire because of that but luckily the ground wire melted. Took me 2 days to rewire the entire ground side of the dash. I hope the Rolls used a relay.

Buckfast Stradler someone’s got some sand in their vagina

I remember that my grandfather's car, Renault 12, had only one turn signal indicator, just a green light to reminds you that turn signal is on, it didn't show to what direction is engaged, just that is on. Bloody hazard flashers had theyr own separate red light.

Every car i ever owned to this day does that,guess the 4 million dollar cars he normally drives dont.

I was gona say that lol. The coolant needs replacing in that car

Josh Dupigny lol I didn’t know that

I assumed that most Top Gear fans just knew this. Weird that Doug doesnt.

I think doug should do all his videos together with James may instead. The videos should rise about the triple against todays views.

Yep, seems like this carquru does´nt even watch Top Gear... Any TG fan knew this.

very ahead of it’s time

LOL yeah just about. The dude needs to go to B&H online and order a pro 4K camera. He has to be bringing int he money. Hell my silly channel as a hobby I get $200-$300 a month.

At least he got rid of the massive, light up clip on mic...

It's not the size of the tools. It's how to use them.

No, it proves that content of the video really matters, not quality of the video footage. 90% of the good quality video on YT is utter crap.

He should step up the beavis an butthead wardrobe and get some cool threads! lol

Elite2k you sir are an OG

hate these comments but that was fun

This made me actually laugh out loud xD

Lmfaooo 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Since this comment is on every Doug video and was never funny it is even more unfunnier than it was supposed to be.

Bobby Gabinadina A lot of these millennials drive me up the WALL! They speak of earlier generations with conviction as though they were there. They also make things up and pass them off as fact. This guy was very hard to listen to. He has a bizarre over-dramatic way of speaking and breathing which makes me cringe...bizarre!

I know, this guy never takes a breath. I watched a few of these videos. I am interested in the cars but he gives me a headache and wears horrible shoes. He also seems perplexed by the high beam button on the floor in several videos. Cars had this feature for decades, I wish it would come back. He gets obsessed by features on cars that are new to him but were commonplace to anyone over 40 so when he discovers these for himself he calls them crazy and quirky. Doug really needs to do his research before he reviews. I know it can't be easy to produce these videos, but he needs to get his facts straight instead of making things up on the fly since many of us actually owned some of these old cars and know more than he does

Bobby Gabinadina Yes, I agree. I have a '68 Caddy Convertible with foot mounted dimmer and my '73 Corvette also has the same thing. I think his other problem is comparing classic cars to today's cars which is ridiculous. He was not alive back then and has no idea what was common or standard.

Bobby Gabinadina. He thinks 1973 was like the Flintstones. A 1963 Caddy could have been purchased with more luxury features & power accessories than 1973 Rolls. Power everything had been around for decades by the time 1973 came along.

AMEN! Thank you:-)

ken k his knowledge on these classic cars is atrocious.

Can confirm, have worked on a SS, understand it far better than I would like.

Penis fart

The button is correctly wired. It should test the coolant lamp AND also show the engine oil level in the fuel gauge!

ken k i came to the comments for this answer. Thank you

He means “Flagship”. Phantom is a metaphor for flagship

Jake Griffin no he didn’t. Doug meant exactly what themixedfamily said. That’s the kind of guy he is.

®ioT so good

"1988 ding dong got me there 😂"

®ioT hahhaha im crying lol

And then give the date a Doug Score. Is she more a weekend ride or daily ride?

Or he could say "it's not worth it, but it's amazing"

Back in the seventies , not ALL wheels were formed as a circle . According to Mr. Doug Demuro ! !

Yes sir lol

Thank you!! I've been searching the comment section to look for someone having the answer... Which Top Gear? I love that show too!

We have this in most older airplanes too.

Same here. Thanks James may lol

Kyle Stengl when they went to India

lmaooo

Every day, it keeps me awake at night.

I had a hearty laugh

His hairline is migrating to africa

One big quirk is how he over pronunciates his words

The Stig's German Cousin Yup I think so to. James May mentioned it on Top Gear in his Rolls. This was in the india special

you are correct

The Stig's German Cousin you are absolutely correct. It was put there to check that your warning lights and warning buzzer worked

yes like the "check" button in old bmw

yup, like the test buttons on airplanes

Not necessarily every detail... he’s forgotten quite a few important things

@@yammmit well tons more details that anyone else would find or even me.

World Wayne's World Wayne's World Its party time excellent!

Haha

Doug the type of guy to tell you about the quirks and features of Grey Poupon, and then give it a Doug Score

and yet you love to watch his videos ahahaha

the reference is from the commercials not the movie

until he reviews an SM

chris davidson I love the SM...

And CX

Yeah Doug definitely has to review a Citroën !

Metaroose This is a 1995 RCA tv remote it has 28 buttons.

Well he has over a million views since May 2018 and that's not Whistling Dixie. LOL

He's also the only one who could make it REMOTELY interesting

That's why we watch.

Fuck off u dirty ass

Oh everybody likes entitlement, but have to agree, grammar darling grammar.

Awful.

Holy shit you people are pathetic.

@@FunBoysGaming May I suggest, more sugar in your Earl Grey.

Warwick Rigby Indeed, indeed. Oh how I sympathize with the plight of those who simply can not understand!

Tom Drsny I chortled because of the visual.

Tom Drsny ddiiuiiiiiiiiiiii :jikikkkkk

Hahahahahahalolhaha

LMFAO

SkuzzyJ same LMAOO

I agree, like i immediately found 3 of these cars from around the same era (1969-80) in much better shape and more original parts than this one, with just a quick internet search....

Sam Saunders I agree, if your going to review a car, it should be a really nice example of that model imho.

bruh what is wrong with u

Superado2006 I mean, he said likely, he didn't say for sure 😂😂😂😂

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He said that the Silver Shadow was “one of the first,” not the first.

lightningbolt99999 Yes, but he implies that it’s unusual and exotic, which it’s not.

yessir

Dude cadillac used to be so cool and inovative

Lincoln continental and Chrysler imperial probably did.

Same about the headrests, the second mirror....it takes seconds to figure it out on the net....

and yet his videos entertain you and you religously watch them lol

Jong Regudo lol lurk moar

Wouldn't you?

Doug the type of guy to sit on the spirit of ecstacy

Doug wouldn't just kneel, he'd properly genuflect.

lmao

supra this is easily one of the best ones I’ve seen yet lmao

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supra 😂😂😂

This is one of the better ones I’ve seen :)

Nick Vernice Fastest diagnosis ever

Love the car.

The word is "brakes"

Marco Rodriguez What else do you use to "cut" open a bag of chips? Lol A knife?

You open it with your hands

Frajmando no shit Sherlock Holmes's homebody.

Car keys

How many times is this comment going to show up?

I was going to mention the Camargue - but that was introduced in 1975, and so is outside the range of the 1973 model year.

I know far more about nuclear power plants than I know about English luxury cars, and EVEN I knew that. For a guy with a car review channel, Doug doesn't seem to know a lot about cars.,LOL.

The Phantom V was, generally speaking, not really available to a public customer. They built 374, two were official State Cars of the Crown of the UK. With another....four... I think being otherwise in service with the UK government, two went to Australia for the Australian Government, at least one to Canada too, and whole slew went to the Middle East to people like the Sha of Iran, and other various Emirs, Sheiks and Kings there. A few more, if I recall correctly were snapped up by high ranking nobles in the UK, as well as some of the European Nobility. If you sort through all the Governments, heads of states, leaders of peoples, and ancient blue blood that bought them I am pretty sure most were made to order, as requested, and only certain people could make such requests. So I would imagine in that sense, it is the Phantom of today, of it's day, specifically 1973. This is a Shadow, not a Shadow II, there was generally speaking no more luxurious Rolls one could buy new in 73 than this. The Wraith II, you speak of, was not released until 1975, I think. Prior to that, there was an EWB version of the Shadow available, from about 1968, but aside from rear aircon, and if optioned, a partition, it was not really that different from the standard WB model. It would not until 75 or later, with the launch of the Shadow II that the EWB version would grow to become the Wraith II. As for the Corniche, indeed, it was a luxurious car, but one can easily argue the model in question, if we speak of 73, is not significantly MORE luxurious a car than the Shadow. More, it is not quite the right comparison. A Corniche would be the early 70s version of the Dawn, or perhaps the Series VII Phantom Drop Head, not a standard Phantom. All in all, what he was saying was this was the most luxurious Rolls-Royce one .... more specifically.. "ANY" ONE... could buy in 1973. Which it WAS. Not just anyone could buy a Phantom VI, then, as they can today, and it would be at least two years before the EWB version of this car, became the Wraith II.

@@Apis4 you are confusing the Phantom V (which was replaced by the Phantom VI by 1973 anyway) with the Phantom IV

@@ThePaulpope No, I am not, it was a typo. They only built 370 odd VI's between 68 and 90. They built even less than Vs, not fewer than the IVs So no phantom of the 30 years previous to this car, was ever a commonly available, walk in drive out, purchase, so my point stands.

Because the Phantom of the time period was a bespoke vehicle that wasn't sold in anywhere near the magnitude of the Phantom of today. It shares only the name, not the market position.

This is the entry level Rolls of its day. It is the equivalent of the Ghost in the current lineup, not the Phantom.

Phantom VI, actually, and his point wasn’t that this was literally the car that became the phantom. He’s simply saying that it’s status back in the 70s was equivalent to the status which the phantom holds in the modern day.

Kyle Excet that’s not true. The Phantom VI was the top of the line model.

zjpj83 true

@@zjpj83 Yep, the Silver Shadow was then the Ghost of its time. The Phantoms are limousines, the line below (usually with Silver in the title) were the owner-driven cars: Silver Ghost, Dawn, Cloud, Shadow, Spur, etc.

franz wetrfres haha I once lived with a guy who said I love you and the night was magical on his first date with a stunner. it was his first and last time he ever saw her 😆

Michael Ainslie no-one cares

Turbotube OK then

Joe Pope that’s pretty normal

is your name also Doug?

I do that lol

*type of guy

Extra white

that's probably because it's his name

i mean, you're not wrong by any means

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Douglass*

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aussiebloke609 the button serves two purposes: 1. To read the oil level in the sump (orange markings on the fuel guage), and 2. To test that all the warning lights are working, which they are not on this poorly maintained mess of a car. Doug’s lack of knowledge is overwhelming.

I had a feeling it was something like that. I think James May had one and talked (ad nauseum) about checking the idiot lights. Thanks, mate. :-)

aussiebloke609 You’re most welcome. It was also a switch to test the audible engine overheat buzzer.

I have a 1969 Chevy K10 with a 4 speed manual and that style bright switch and they're pretty easy to work around. But, that's a big old american truck soooooo

Yeah, it's harder to find room between the pedals for your foot in a small car. But then, there seems to be a lot of people that just leave their brights on anyway, so... :-D

J actually, they're not. And they're not headrests. They were head restraints, and Rolls-Royce was one of the first British car makers to install them to prevent whiplash. If you go to Coventry, and do a tour of the factory, you can ask the tour guide all of these questions, they are very informative.

The front seats were equipped with receiver sockets for the optional head rests or the head restraints this example has since 1973. If none were on the order, the sockets had a blanking plug fitted as standard. The optional head rests available were organic curved wider pillow like offerings using the same fixing as the head restraints, a height adjustable steel sliding bar.

The front seat headrests were mandated by the early 1970s but these headrests look like they were just stuck there to just barely comply with the regulations of the era.

Yes. Sedan Deville's of that era offered heated seats, automatic headlamps, and automatic climate control to name a few. But RR's were largely hand-built, used real wood veneer in its interiors, and higher quality materials for the time.

60s n 50s cad had even more

Anas Takiyudin lmao

Anas Takiyudin 🛑 stop u better stop

for Ben Swolo u mean

Who

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I didn’t know there was a specific price of clothes to price of car ratio you had to meet, especially if it’s not your car. James May drives around in his Ferraris in a $15 pair of jeans

@John Davis all correct except its a 1973 proving your point even more

Bunny Biedenharn finally someone that actually knows rolls royce!

Bunny Biedenharn There was also the short lived Camargue, that was then £50000.

Exactly my thought when I saw the title. Still expensive though!

stevenreynolds40 regretfully, this video is packed with misinformation to the point that there was nothing to learn. Doug has zero knowledge or clue about these cars, and on top of it, he chose a poorly maintained, far from original mess of a car.

Miss e high beam on the floor. Made more sense to me down there. I loved those powered vent Windows. Very cool land yachts those Lincolns

Yea, he mentioned the power door locks, power windows, and power seats like they were something unusual for 1973. All those features, and many more had been around for decades prior to 1973.

Not to be rude to Doug, but why would a car reviewer be so fascinated by these 70's cars? So many of these features were just standard on higher end cars, American domestic included. I love the 'quirks' of my '74 Camaro. I've upgraded many items; bluetooth calling, alarm with remote start, satellite radio, etc. But I'll take the design of my 70's gauge cluster over a modern one's any day. Besides that, I can tell that I'm actually in control of the car.

Gabriel A. I know right! Doug has like 0 respect for older cars, and if he did he would have probably seen the cars movie.

Well, He also thought that Fisher Body was an outside contractor that made the bodies for the Buick Grand National...Doug is LESS hip to vintage cars than my 11 year old niece!

I think he meant the prestige factor

I don't think he's been around many cars older than he is.

I bet those window motors are the size of a starter, are they not? probably sound like one, too. Heavy duty old bastards.

*For an European car

I know, right? I kept barking back at him the other day: "My 1960 convertible has power windows, power seats, power top, power antenna, power steering and power brakes, Doug! Gah!! HAVE YOU NO IDEA THE DECADE IN WHICH YOU LIVE, SIR?" ...and things such as that. But, here's the thing: when I first got this 1960 model, many years ago, my friend said: "Wow, power windows, power seats-- I didn't know they had those back then!" Ya see. And he's my age (mid-40s). Hey Doug: they even had power vent windows. Get back to us after you've Googled "vent window". (8^D) In all seriousness, keep it up. These videos are awesome. So he's younger and he's not familiar with what was normal 50 years ago; part of the charm. I mean, he gets fascinated with the ashtrays. Ha!!

And I drove a '60 Saratoga Chrysler with power seats.

also definitely not common. You probably didn’t have power locks unless you had a very nice car

TheCentrifugeChannel somethings are just impossible

A car built in 1973 is modern you mean a contemporary car or a post-modern car with big b pillars that cars in modernity didn't have. Hell even the Daimler Chrysler carriage is modern since it was built in the 1800s.

Probably hate it. Modern Rolls Royce cars aren't made for the traditional customers.

the King of over pronunciating

Cigar*

I took a Rolls up a very long steep hill and decided to floor it, it pulled well and when I went over the top I was pushing just shy of 120 MPH in the distance I saw a police car so I stood on the brakes which pulled the cars speed down to the speed limit which was 40 mph. Luckily the police hadn't worked out it was the Rolls that was speeding. I know he clocked me on his radar, but hadn't worked out who was speeding. Also got in a drag with two of Australias Iconic cars a Falcon GTHO 351 XY and a 308 Commodore, they took off we gave them a car length of so head start and floored the Rolls, neatly going in between both of them before we decided to back off. the Torque in that car was phenomenal!

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AND WERE MANDATED IN AMERICA IN 1969 SO ALL NOT SOME CARS HAD THEM.

MICHGO1 Why are you yelling?

Haven't we all felt like yelling at Doug at one time or another? : |

problem is those "headrests" are way too far back to prevent any sort of whiplash. Even the ones in my 94 Integra are too far back. Newer cars have them much farther forward so that they're less than an inch from the back of your head when sitting normally in the seat.

That’s what I tell my Mrs.

Clearly, they are worth 25 cents.

elcaminosunlimited the valve stem caps are nasty aftermarket items. These cars vans with beautiful chrome-plated domed valve stem caps.

That and going on about the wheel covers? They mimic the covers on the Royces(and other luxury cars) from the 1930s. And he misses the fact the the ENTIRE front ashtray rotates...to empty itself.

bb okc Good comment. I was thinking that myself

So your wife’s lover is a RR owner?

I was thinking the same thing. The 1973 RR Phantom was the Phantom of 1973. Duh. And power seats? My dad's 1966 Chrysler New Yorker had 'em.

"Power locks" "They're vacuum controlled though" -Are you a fucking idiot?

3a dude, what about power steering? Don’t get on me for semantics here.

No, he's correct. Instead of electric servos they used engine vacuum to power them. So little hoses to them instead of wires. Lincolns were the same. What was really strange was that early 60's (and probably other years) Lincolns had hydraulic powered windshield wipers. Early 50's Cadillacs (and probably Lincolns) had hydraulic power windows.

FORSCHISHORD they stopped doing it with the jl

Yeah, that annoyed me. The misunderstanding is due to BMW releasing their first Phantom as an "owner-driver" when the name is used for the chauffeur driven cars. This car isn't even a LWB, which would be the top-of-the-line that year.

Not only did they have the Phantom VI in '73 they also had the Wraith II, Corniche and Camargue. All were more prestigious. The Silver Shadow was the entry level Rolls, not the flagship.

Yeah, but come on. The Phantom back then was a special-order limousine they sold only a few hundred examples of -- 374 made in 22 years, or roughly 15 annually. It was never even available in North America. This was the top Rolls four-door sedan by any rational measure.

All I said was this was the top-of-the-line Rolls-Royce sedan of its day. The Corniche and Camargue were not sedans. The Wraith was just a slightly altered version of this.

Doug would you like to review my 2011 599 GTO?

No, they're original.

Headrests come to very little use, so even in aging vehicles they often keep their factory look.

I was thinking less of the age, and more about the style of stitching and the grain of the leather, with angular edges instead of the rounded, stuffed look of the seats. They look like they've been either replaced or recovered cheaply.

I see what you mean, especially the way they don't fit the curve of the seat back. But the shape and size is similar, just poorly executed. I suspect an inferior reupholstering - wrong leather, incorrect padding replacement and/or leather patterns the wrong size. For comparison, I've found a video of a concourse '73 Silver Shadow - at 3.31 and 4.17 you can clearly see the different shape: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7V9WMJBQlqw.html

You're wrong. $15,000 would probably be like $350,000 back then and now.

its Crimmy in your dreams, yeah. Good luck covering the matieneince costs, bud.

MemeMaster777 he didn't say it costed 15,000 then. He said today's value for the car is 10,000 to 20,000 us dollars

KWB you don't know how much money I have xD

its Crimmy That's cheap.

What the fuck

What the fuck

Candles...i forgot the scented candles. It's too late I'm like 17 strokes in 🕯️🕯️🕯️

*Ha! Gaaaaay!!!*

LaRusso what the fuck is a tiege hanley?

Doug has no concept of what cars were like before 1990. It's all "back in the day" according to him.

Yup

They weren't "power windows" they were vacuum powered.

SUBURBS you make a false statement without any data or examples to back your 'claim' which attempts to refute Doug. Stay in school and educate yourself kid.

Power locks were seen on cars in the late 50's

He did but could not find the corect peage

@@burnotto1663 Were the pages unmarked too?

No pages have numbers and chapters and register This is a US car so handbook TSD 2880 I think Forget it very nice presentation with some minor error

Yeah that and the temp button

AviationXPlane SAAB 95 2011!

heck yeah wasn't there an cool old 3 cylinder one?

Mike Zeke I believe that was the SAAB Sonet

Well, of course they aren't -- the original ones have been stolen. As have the replacements, the replacements for the replacements...

LoL didn't I see them on Amazon? 😅

Very interesting write up. I suspected an electronic control gear select, and figured that was why they integrated a shift gate design into the steering column (so the lever would stay in position). As for government regs, my only thought beyond your points (good ones by the way), is that all manufacturers had to deal with emerging regulations. I remember driving 60s and 70s cars. Some ('70s manufacturers) did a better job in dealing with them than others.

You go on and on just as much as Doug does

@Steve Prince Rolls did push tech in the aviation sector. They were one of the first to use carbon fiber, for example.

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Wheel covers. Hubcaps cover the hub, leaving the rest of the wheel exposed.

@@VndNvwYvvSvv so center caps... lol

My grandparents' 1948 Buick Roadmaster had power windows and power locks! Big surprise that RR had it. I'm only 23 but good lord this wasn't the stone age! I have a 1941 Nash Ambassador that has some of these features.

Greg Jones that button is to check the oil level in the sump, which is read in the orange markings on the fuel guage. This car has been poorly maintained and mucked with - the button was also a test switch to light up all the warning lights to ensure they were working.

JSD HK i actually figured its a test button. The car probably had an alarm if the coolant was low and that button seems like its used to test the alarm. It certainly behaves like a test button for an alarm. Actually is quite brilliant. I don’t think any modern car has such a feature. Most cars you run out of coolant and your temperature gauge just shoots up.

Juan Zingarello You are right, and your comments are spot on. Too bad Doug could t figure that out (page 36 of the handbook). The test button also runs a check on the warning lights, and turns the fuel guage into an oil level indicator. It really is brilliant.