It’s crazy how a Rolls Royce has taken part of the Parisi Dakar with such a big car as it is, and also let’s speak about how beautiful it is! Well done, hope to see other videos from this channel!
There was nothing left that was original to the real rolls, except the dashboard, grille and bumpers. The body was made from polyester, the chassis a tubular frame and a chevy engine with a toyota gear box. So it's just a home made car with a plastic body on top.
Just one minor mistake at the end, with 3.5L, 350 cui and 5.7L. But that did not harm that great video in any way. Very nice work, I really did enjoyed it. 🙂
No Dakar cars are the original street cars. They are all tubular chassis, fiberglass bodies, custom suspensions, etc. Not even the Mitsubishi Pajeros, Range Rovers, etc. Yes it's kind of frustrating
actually only the engine, some other parts were from Toyota, the wonderful V8 from Rolls Royce would certainly have been better, but would have probably blown the budget
All that early machinery in vintage livery is delightful to look upon. As a Detroit born, country raised American, Rolls really missed an oppurtunity to sell a road going version of the racer. Looks amazing. I want one!
Good video but you get a few details wrong. The chassis was not a bespoke tube frame, it was a Toyota HJ45 frame with a rollcage added. They choose that partially because the wheelbase line up almost perfectly. The original plan was to use the original Rolls/Bentley engine. They made an adapter and got the car running; however the engine broke during testing. The Chevy 350 was then mounted as a last minute fix.
Very interesting videos. He tells us how the most familiar luxury car in the world, years ago was a protagonist in the longest rally that exists. And let's just say, the rally isn't made by luxury cars. But this car is the exception that confirms the rule.
Rolls Royce isn't made to race on the Dakar, but De Montcorgé doesn't know it and takes part with his Corniche to the Paris-Dakar 1981! Thank you for the support anyway! :D
Great video on a very interesting topic. When all's said and done, what they really did was take a Corniche, throw away everything but the exterior panels, and reassemble them around a bespoke chassis and driveline ...
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Ma786sai Dua I relish my 1982 Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit, a creation of indescribable elegance and other-worldly beauty. No other marque no matter how hallowed wafts, floats, such as a Rolls-Royce does. In truth when I’m listening to The Blue Danube Waltz inside, my Silver Spirit actually waltzes with me. I cannot ask for more.
If you’re interested in unlikely Rolls Royce rally cars, you should check out Bill Bengry and the Silver Shadow he drove in the 1970 London to Mexico World Cup Rally. (Motorsport Magazine’s online archive has an excellent article on it) That car was much, much closer to standard than this “Corniche”
Some amusing mis-mash of ze English language… Peter Sellers. One technical point, you should know, the Corniche model is a convertible Silver Shadow. The car in the story started as a Rolls Royce Silver Shadow, never was a Corniche. They might have taken the roof off, but then again, there was already so little of the original RR left…
so . . . a bespoke Chevrolet/Toyota drivetrain with a tubular chassis, sporting the the grill, dash, dials, and some of the body of a Rolls Royce corniche entered the Paris Dakkar rally. Got it.
Ma786sai Dua oh indeed a Rolls-Royce remains a timeless heirloom a life-time of unforgettable motoring such as no other marque might be able to grant, so effortlessly such a Rolls effortlessly easily grants its owner every single time one is fortunate enough to sit behind its yacht-like steering wheel. With that polo-field massive bonnet stretching out endlessly before you, and that ever-elegant winged Goddess The Spirit of Ecstasy with outstretched gossamer twin wings, guiding your journey to ever-beckoning new journeys
Rolls Royce has a long history with desert long before being exported to Middle Eastern countries as early as 1914 Rolls Royce developed the Armoured Car and it was used in WWI and in the inter war years protecting the Palestine Mandate! I wonder if will ever someone will ask Rolls Royce if they can assist them if they enter a Cullinan in the the Rally!
There are a lot of dead shadows at the Rolls-Royce junkyard in Rome Georgia, it's possible to build all kind of Creations from those cars. There's a place in Florida that is building custom Rolls-Royce using the old bodies and different drivetrains. It's the Hydraulics that ruin those cars too complicated and too expensive to repair it doomed a lot of the cars
it's not even an RR, only the dashboard and dials were original. It has tubular chassis, fiberglass shell, Toyota transmission & Chevy engine. Still very impressive though 😆
Watching this I gather that there wasn’t much left from original car. Different engine, fabricated body, Toyota suspension and gearbox. Only the dashboard was original !!!!
What a bs video. This is not a Rolls Royce. It has a Chevy V8 a Toyota transmission and a fiberglass body. Was not built by RR. They only raced it twice and replaced it with a range rover. To be fear it does have a RR grill.
If one can't keep 350 C.I. , 350 HP and 3.5 L apart without getting them confused over less than 15m, I am inclined to think the rest of their narrative is Questionable at Best. But props on the accent making it seem like less of a blunder.
If one cant keep random capital letters at bay, I am inclined to believe their opinion is questionable at best. But props on the punctuation making it seem like less of a blunder.
@@quackman7027 Those befuddled by Capitalization for Emphasis in the written medium as if it were a concept newer than a thousand years old might want to continue their education before attempting mockery.
@@Peterowsky I was mocking the fact you were mocking somebodys minor language mistakes in their non-native tongue whilst still making mistakes in your (presumably) native language.
So it wasn't really a RR. Chevrolet engine, Toyota drive train, bespoke frame, fibreglass body that looked like a RR, seems the only actual RR parts were the radiator grill, bumpers and dash.
So the engine is is American, the drivetrain is by Toyota, the bodywork is a fibreglass replica and the seats are taken from an Alpine. What about this car is a Rolls Royce? Oh, the dashboard.
The rolls royce needed an American V8 engine and Toyota transmission nevertheless.. the 1981 PD rally was eventually won by a RANGE ROVER!! Unbelievable!
Proberably the best marketing done for Rolls Royce even though they did not authourise it ok expact it , I bet a lot of clients in the early 1980s bought a Roller because of the romantic myth behind the car , I bet the sales staff did nothing to stop the romantic interlude between paper and pen to sign the build contract . That said , that era of Rolls , Silver Shadow and Silver Spirit were pretty rugged on unpaved surfaces any way because they were built as tough cars that first , second and third owners would proberably abuse them in mechanical ways , believing the myth that Rolls's never needed servicing ect .
@@ldnwholesale8552 what makes the iron block better if you don't need the strength for the power you're making and can shave pounds? Real question. I get it if it was a blown drag car, but don't get it otherwise
This was no longer a Rolls Royce. This was Chevrolet with a Rolls Royce outer shell. It was even said in the video, not much there was left from the Rolls Royce. The heart of the car makes the car.
