Rolls Royce Silver Shadow resto part 4. It's ULEZ exempt but can it cope with London traffic? 

Looks perfectly at home on the streets of London. Makes the streets look better actually.

I love how "real" Harry is. He can dress British, drive his Ferrari to North Africa, fix an electrical problem by himself, and get his car to start again in the middle of nowhere. Hats off.

" He didn't look did he? Shows how quiet a Rolls Royce is". May I add, Harry, that if you had run over him you wouldn't have noticed, either. Cheers

“I think the engineers will get us out of this, not the politicians” amen to that.

You can just tell this is one of his most special babies in the garage. I love the relationship that has developed between Harry and the Shad!! I think he could easily talk about it for 8 hours...and I would watch every minute!!

Sunday afternoon with Harry. Relax and enjoy a 22 and a half minute time out. Thanks Harry

Great video as always. I love how Harry lives in a world of wealth that 99% of us can't get our heads around, yet he never comes across as thinking he's better than us. Great to hear his story about being inspired by a boss while he was working in Liverpool as a youngster. What a guy!

Looking good Harry. Actually this reminded me of an incident with my dad many years ago. He borrowed a friend's Silver Shadow in a rather conspicuous shade of yellow. Well, he got pulled by the police and being an Irishman in a Rolls in the 70s was not a good mix. I believe they suspected him of being some kind of IRA bigwig and put him in a cell overnight until his identity could be confirmed. His mate's never let him live it down and presented him with a corgi diecast mounted on a plinth which I still have to this day. 🙂

It's lovely to see the Rolls back looking a million dollars again!

Wonderful video Harry, we have a 93 year old Rolls Phantom 1 , bought for £190 , nearly 57 years ago.I was still at school when it was bought by my 17 year old brother, with a little influence from our father !.it has become one of the family , and has travelled by air , ship and hovercraft and given such enormous pleasure and amazing exeriences as we have grown old together.There were some challenges along the way , but you have done the old girl proud and if you have half the pleasure of ownership we've experienced , you won't be doing badly !.

I spent a lot of my childhood in a met-brown one, my dad is a dyslexic builder, cant read but can make money… this car was a real love of his, a medal to him really. Lovely cars. Sadly it was tainted as it got keyed twice within 6 months in different car parks, my dad was terribly upset that someone would be jealous enough of his hard work and effort to want to damage his little achievement. even today when i see a man in a top end expensive car im never jealous and always think “i bet he worked damn hard for that”

"I think the engineers will get us out of this rather than politicians." 👏👏👏 Well said Harry. Governments suck at literally everything.

Love the Artic Rolls! Must be about time for a trip to see Santa in Lapland! 🎅🏻🎄❄️☃️

The Shadow's chief designer (can't remember his name) was concerned about stability - he had a thing called the 'Sneeze Test' - ie if you sneeze and twitched the wheel, he wanted the car to still track straight - hence the dead feeling at the centre of the steering to pass the 'sneeze test'

I like how you repaired the Rolls, but didn't try to "restore" it. Fixing what was in bad shape or unsafe, an improvement that doesn't distract from the car's nature, and keeping the things that make it the Arctic Rolls. Taking us for a drive to London, and showing off the car's still-impressive ride. And I always thought it was wider than it is; seeing it in a parking bay shows you how small it really is. Thank you for taking us with you, and hope you had a great time in the city

Harry: The perfect transport for the iconic Country Gentleman Farmer. I love the way you refer to this car as if it has consciousness...and you are probably right. I have four "children" in my collection and as soon as one car gets a repair or some attention, the others immediately want the same. Some how, they know.

Credit to all involved with the cars rejuvenation - it looks superb and absolutely well worth the effort and expense. Bravo! 👍

Sunday afternoon with Harry and a classic Rolls. Just good.

Harry you are a real gentleman, in a real car! Love the understated style & calm commentary.

How delightful to witness Harry refreshing his love affair with this glorious old girl. Here's to many more nostalgic adventures!

Harry, when you talk about the suspension and ride quality I have to mention something which is relevant from my teenage years. My Father worked for AP Lockheed in Liverpool which specialised in hydraulics. The company were working with Rolls Royce to develop suspension for the Shadow replacement, the Silver Spirit. The test car was a maroon Shadow, the boot being full of tanks and pumps etc for the new suspension- test mule spec. The ride was unbelievable but the car once parked would sit down which Rolls were not keen on. But the funny thing I remember was a solid oak boot stay to prop the boot lid up. It had been machined and sanded before being stained and varnished. It was almost as good as the interior wood! One last thing, the test car was without the radiator grill and Spirit of Ecstasy….. why? Because it was a mule was the official response! 😂 I enjoy your channel very much 🥂

I am soooo envious. Loved these cars since I was a boy, that love has never diminished. Much nicer than the stuff Rolls produces today.

Harry, you bring alive the dreams of ordinary guys like me. Thank you.

The Silver Shadow was always my favourite. The view from the driving seat along that chrome strip on the bonnet to the Spirit of Ecstasy flying off in the distance is unforgettable 🙂

Her Majesty’s absolutely marvellous! What a lovely video . She looks wonderful alongside those historic streets of old London Town . Always loved these editions on the Rolls , ever since seeing The Thomas Crown Affair with super -cool Steve McQueen , always wanted one. Incidentally, you mentioned the figure on £7000 as the purchase price , my father bought his 2nd house , a good size 3 bed semi for just less than £4000 in late 1968 !

As a fellow Rolls-Royce owner I loved this video. The classic Royces knock the spots off the modern ones.

Very lucky in regards to this particular Royce, ending up in the ownership of Harry. This classic Rolls Royce has been rescued just in time. Many thanks Harry 🇬🇧👍.

Looks so perfect with the spirit of Ecstasy just pointing out in front of the bonnet as the contour of the roads change, and all these high tech cars around it in traffic and yet somehow the car fits, like a foot going into a handcrafted shoe london and this car are a perfect match no one ignores a rolls !

In another context in 1968 you could buy a 3 bedroom terrace house in Brighton for 3300. Today that house would cost 300 to 400K easily.

Doug score, stick of truth, exhaust fist, but Harry tops them all with boot capacity measured in outboards.

the world is just a better place with Harrys vids

It's good to see you so obviously over the moon with your Rolls, your enthusiasm is plain to see. 👍

Why doesn't Harry have a BILLION subscribers?? Love him. The way he handled those speed bumps was absolutely hilarious.

So happy you are championing narrow cars. Manufacturers should be forced to reduce car width to keep traffic flowing and stop selfish drivers parking on pavements. If you reduce width you then force a reduction in height (to manage centre of gravity / handling issues) which leads to reduced kerb weights, better economy, reduced tyre wear etc. Narrow cars - it's the future! 😇

I want one. I've always wanted one. And now I want one even more. The view over that bonnet is just regal.

Perfect Sunday with Harry and Iain

Ultimate wafter, looks stunning, what a cracking job you’ve done…

What a thoroughly agreeable video. Thank you for taking us along, Harry.

Even after all these years, the design of the Silver Shadow is still beautiful. It’s simply timeless. A wonderful car.

Lovely video, really enjoyed that. Hadn’t touched in for a while but so glad I did for that. Got some catching up to do on the garage and the farm!

Brilliant choice. I love the silver shadow, the northern lights video you did was marvellous. You have rescued a classic. Good on you. The car looks brilliant

Brilliant job - well done to you and the team. Thank you for giving this lovely and worthy car a second life.

Stunning! Love the flow of door handles through the chrome coach line! Thank you Harry.

Love this series and the original Arctic series. Thanks so much - your videos give me something to look forward to

Fabulous video, Harry. Brought a smile to my face, we are of similar vintage and my, how things have changed eh. I can remember being driven round Sloane Square in a Rolls such as yours, the car doing a four wheel drift as we passed the Tube entrance.....imagine doing that now !

Many thanks for a great video on the Roll-Royce Silver Shadow driving to London and the explanation of the suspension upgrade

Very nice trip and the whole story is beautiful. We are waiting for more of your trips and test drives. They are great!

I've always loved the silver shadow, no other word for it, majestic!

Very Nice. Always been a fan of the Silver Shadow. The first and last time i got to ride in one was about 45 years ago, (also white). Well done Harry another classic saved.

Brings back lots of memories. My late Uncles first Rolls was a Shadow one the same age as yours. His was in Garnet with dove grey leather interior. That along with the Saab 99 Turbo and vintage Lagonda that he owned at the same time were the cars I learned to drive in! His Rolls was originally sold by Jack Barclay and had the Barclay sill plates. I always loved the early Cornich as well and remember loving the two they used on To The Manor Born. One was chocolate brown and later a black one. Wonder what happened to those.

Marvelous. Ive just retired from the auction industry and indidna valuation on a RR 1970 model. Done 60,000miles. It was the oldest car in his collection. Inasked him about its history. He said he grew up in poverty in Greece and they escaped to Australia. He saw a RR in William st Sydney and as a kid said “im going to work hard and buy one”.. well he became a developer and bought it. He said he cannot part with it as it symbolises everything he worked to achieve.

Lovely to see the old Girl wafting majestically through the streets of London. Great job, Harry.

That’s lovely a credit to you Harry I enjoyed every second of that. Always thought the 1970s Rolls. Are proper Rolls Royce s shadow and phantom’s. Thank Harry.

Excellent all you need is to nudge it in the general direction, fantastic job has been done on the car cheers Harry 👍

Your trip videos are my favorite ones, Harry. Whether short like this or all the way to northern Africa. I just think your trips to London are so glamorous so thanks for taking us along for the ride

„Look at this…“ - what a great enthusiasm of Harry. So lovely, like the Silver Shadow. Reminds me of Murray Walkers F1 enthusiasm during race commentary. Keep on your good work.

It looks nice and clean which makes it now my favorite of your garage. Good job Harry.

I thoroughly enjoyed that, Harry. Thank you.

Brilliant, I really enjoyed that. Good to show a car being used for something having gone through the process of restoring it. 👍

Reminds me of my parents shadow bought back in 1980. It was a 1967 (TYK 22F) with air conditioning and a metal sliding sunroof (apparently a very rare and expensive option when new). It had picnic tables on the back of the front seats and a 4 speed auto (later changed to a 3 speed with the larger 6.75 engine) from builds after1970ish. I can confirm (because I had to do it) if you lock the boot lid, then ace the car key in the boot gutter rails d slam the boot closed,you have just locked yourself out of your car 😂 However,if you remove the spare wheel,you will find a hole in the boot floor (so your mechanic can check your spare tyre pressure without lowering the spare,assuming you lined up the valve with the hole) and it's big enough for a teenagers arm . So Laying on my back, with a socket set and spanners,I found (after 3 hours) you can undo the boot catch from inside the boot, completely blindly and open the boot to retrieve the key 👍

Lovely work done on that car - you really have some good specialists to call on. What a great way to get to the RAC - they’ll feed and water you well there:)

What a joy to see it back on the road. The steering, when driving these cars years ago I decided the steering feel to road wheel vagueness was there to give your butler time to carry out the instructions or indeed give you time to change your mind 😉

Harry is so classy, cool and down to earth. Really enjoy his videos and stories. Always interesting.

There is nothing quite like the view down that bonnet. Wonderful.

Older cars like the Silver Shadow simply must be in top shape not tattered and rusted out, it looks better than ever. BTW the moose decal is a nice touch.

Grace & style personified...and that's just Harry! 😆 Great vid Harry, the car looks superb. 👍🏻

Well done Harry. The perfect first venture in a glorious and reliable old lady . Loved it . Aussie Tony (now in Spain).

Lots to love about these videos, but the packing of cars and the way it’s done is about my favourite.

Well done Harry, an excellent presentation, and your Roller is just looking great, especially in the better parts of London Town!

It looks like a proper Rolls. 😁👌 The praise for a 51 years old car is quite remarkable. Of course I figured it would be comfortable but your praise makes it sounds better than many modern comfortable cars. That bloke walking out in front of you reminds me of the last time i was in London. I nearly did the same to a Bentley. Bloody quiet these things. 😂

Ok... So I'm quietly addicted to this channel. It's honest, informative and it doesn't flog sponsorship. Love it Harry and thankyou 🙏

Love the video of such classy ingredients, perfect host, car and scenery. A few weeks ago I saw an old gent drive his dark grey Bristol down Piccadilly and it just gave me the biggest grin. The car park looked interesting and again 3 weeks ago I ended up parking under Hyde Park for the first time. I just couldn’t believe how vast it was and the collection of cars was epic, worthy of a video in itself, expensive classics and modern just parked up, some with dust covers and many without, just AMAZING

Hello Harry, I cannot tell you how much I enjoyed this video. Just wonderful! I lived and worked in London for several years and you captured the best feeling of moving through the city. It felt like being taken round by a best mate and chatting about his car. I'm also a devotee of your farm videos so I guess there's no hope for me! Your work is so good and so enjoyable and has been a definite sanity saver this year.

This was beautiful and thank you for sharing the reason why it's white... My first was an 82 Spirit (you can all groan is you want, I LOVED it) that was in Georgian Silver with Gray hides piped Black, for a very similar reason... I also lovingly restored her, maybe a misguided adventure I took at the time however it was something I felt I "needed" to do. Well, 1 1/2 years and $50,000 USD latter, she was complete & better than new, and I was off my rocker and on to my next Rolls! It's an addiction.

Majestic car in everyway, a beautiful sight and awesome to see the car cruising through London. Hope to see more of the Artic Rolls Royce in 2022. A great fun video, thank you.

As always Harry, we loved the video, we do love an old English classic. Thanks for the continued Sunday viewing. Vint-tro

The final result is great indeed. On video, the paint match seems absolutely perfect. I'm not that surprised about the tight turning circle: after all, I guess RR engineers fully expected the Shadow to be driven in Central London :) Whenever I visited London, I loved spotting older RRs being driven around. They simply looked "right" for that environment.

Excellent! Lovely motor!

Wonderfull video Harry. Thank you. It‘s nice to see the old RR on the road again.

Your trip brings back memories of when I used to drive into Newman Street in W1 on a daily basis and around Hyde Park. I had the privilege of an underground car park so it was bliss as I also shared the driving with my next door neighbour. He had a company car and I had a parking space!! So we shared🤗

Another great video. Really pleased seeing the outcome of the Rolls Royce restored by still existent , great British craftsmanship. Ps Seeing this video has brought me to the realisation that shaped Rolls is my favourite.

The Rolls Royce looks great.ive watched all your adventures with this car. Can't wait to see more of the Jaguar

This car is a legend, love seeing the care you are providing this worthy stallion. Cheers from Dallas, Texas

Lovely combo of interesting elements with you as the conductor!

Farm labourer to dinner at RAC Club in a Silver Shadow is inspiring. You made it the right way .Superb.

My dad’s ambition was to have a RR before his 40th, so a few weeks before his birthday he sold his motorbike and my mum’s Ford Escort and bought a Shadow mk1. It was about 12 years old and cost about the same then as a new Vauxhall Astra...but I got loads of stick at school about being posh when I was spotted in it 😀

Great, intelligent restoration to enjoy a fine RR classic. Love the linkages to Dyson's farm & George Best's football days at Manchester United. Great London drive & car.

"It could have a tiller really..." cracked me up. Thanks Harry!!

Amen to the statement “the engineers will get us out of this rather than politicians”. I am a consulting engineer and apart from a few defence things in the last two decades most of what I have been working on has been net zero related. We will get there but we really need to be focussed and working down a list of subjects driven by a true impact curve. We need to mobilise our efforts on the things that really need addressing not virtue signalling nonsense or tokenism. Coal fired energy, Heavy oil ships, haulage and air travel all need sorting before going vegan or avoiding leather or destroying perfectly good petrol cars for new electric ones.

I just love that this gorgeous car is ULEZ exempt. Kinda makes a mockery of the whole reason for ULEZ’s

There is a story in this video, some sense of purpose, that makes it as special as the car. It reminds me of your Lotus Esprit video. These are the gems.

It never gets old seeing just how big today's cars are compared to older one. Just sitting in the car park that Rolls looks so small compared to the BMW next to it. Great job fixing up the car, looks amazing.

I've always thought a Rolls was a bit too ostentatious, but having worked on some of Rolls - Royce's finest products, I have come to appreciate the outstanding engineering that makes them so special. Splendid car, ably demonstrated.

Love it. I’ve a ‘70 Bentley waiting to see if I can save it. Lovely to see yours in action. Also I wondered what those marker lights were - I thought they were an aftermarket addition - didn’t realise they were standard. Fab

Absolutely delighted to see her looking so good, and you don’t look too bad either. Cannot wait to see the Fulvia. Thank you for sharing your affection for so many interesting vehicles and motorcycles.

Dear, absolutely brilliant and what a joy. Thx for all these vids and work. Jack

Great video, so glad you saved the Rolls and amazed that it is now so good for so little. Can barely buy a new base Dacia for the £££

My father had a Rolls back in the day, early 80's, and he occasionally dropped off/picked up me and my brother from youth club, god, it was embarrassing..!! (I appreciate it now tho..!)

A new lease of life for the artic rolls,nice 1 Harry ,great to see it back on the road and being used as it should 👍

Extra cool detail on these amazing cars: you pointed out the beauty of the woodwork on the doors. But look closely and you’ll find that the opposite side is the exact mirror of that very same piece of wood. Only Rolls Royce would think of that! Great video Harry, thanks as always!