1973 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow
Just 42,000 miles from new

Registration No: RLG 1L
Chassis No: SRH15700
MOT: May 2024

• Just 42,000 miles from new
• Previously the resident of a significant private collection and displayed at the British Motor Museum
• Subject to extensive restoration works during 2002-2004
• Offered with a history file

Launched in 1965, the Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow was a bold departure for the Crewe company. Their first monocoque design, it also benefited from olio-pneumatic rear suspension, power disc brakes and GM's silken 400 series automatic gearbox (though, the latter was not adopted until 1968). Such 'new technology' did not encroach on the luxurious interior with its sumptuous leather hides, rich wood veneers and deep lambswool carpets. Performance from the smooth 6,230cc V8 engine (upgraded to 6750cc in 1970) was assured, the car wafting forward on a seemingly unstoppable wave of torque. Still immensely cosseting to drive, Shadows offer a genuinely different ownership experience to their mass-produced peers.

Chassis ‘SRH15700’ was manufactured between January and May 1973, and was supplied new to the home market being registered new on the 1^st of June that year and distributed through Lex Mead Manchester to the first owner, a local businessman based in Macclesfield. Finished in Regal Red paintwork with complementary Red leather interior upholstery, the Shadow is offered with low mileage of less than 42,000 miles from new. Formerly part of one of the country's most significant private collections and thereafter sold with the collection to Jaguar Land Rover, the Shadow has previously been on display in the British Motor Museum at Gaydon.

Subject to extensive restoration work in 2002-2004, the engine and gearbox were overhauled at the cost of £9,500, a full bodywork restoration provided, and a complete interior retrim. There are invoices present on file totalling over £30,000 expenditure, and the Shadow benefitted some £1,800 servicing in June of 2023 at Colbrook Rolls-Royce & Bentley, with two new gas spheres, brake fluid, and an air conditioning re-gas. ‘RLG 1L’ has a music system discreetly fitted in the glove box with an amp fitted in the boot, and is offered with the tools and jack as well as a history file containing the Heritage Certificate, the RREC factory build sheets, aforementioned invoices, and a current V5C.

For more information, please contact:
Paul Cheetham
paul.cheetham@handh.co.uk
07538 667452