1938 Rolls-Royce Phantom III To Be Offered At RM Sotheby’s
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1938 Rolls-Royce Phantom III “Parallel Door” will be featured at RM Sotheby’s upcoming sale, “The Guyton Collection” that will be held on May 4-5, 2019, in St. Louis, Missouri. The chassis number of this car is 3DL86, and it will be offered without
1938 Rolls-Royce Phantom III To Be Offered At RM Sotheby’s
1938 Rolls-Royce Phantom III “Parallel Door” will be featured at RM Sotheby’s upcoming sale, “The Guyton Collection” that will be held on May 4-5, 2019, in St. Louis, Missouri. The chassis number of this car is 3DL86, and it will be offered without reserve at the auction. “Chassis 3DL86 was one of just two Phantom IIIs delivered with this body, a handsome saloon coupe. James Young produced bodies of this basic line on several different chassis of the era, including the Wraith (also in the Guyton Collection), but the two Phantom IIIs were distinguished by their innovative 'parallel doors.’ Turn and pull on a door handle and the entire door slides out vertically, several inches from the car, then moves back parallel to the body, in much the fashion of a modern minivan door. It is a wonderful trick and fascinating to watch in operation. More importantly, in any era when these cars were in regular use, it allowed a large two-door car to have well-proportioned doors that did not have to open, dangerously, into traffic,” states the auction house. Some of the other major details of this car are that it is the 1938 Earls Court Motor Show car; it is best in Class, 2004 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance and is one of two produced with James Young’s famous “parallel doors.” It is featured in many books including Steve Stuckey’s The Spectre Arises. RM Sotheby’s further adds in their auction release and states, “This car was used extensively in advertising and was chosen for exhibition by Jack Barclay at the 1938 Earls Court Motor Show. Copies of its highly detailed James Young and Rolls-Royce build documentation, in the file, spell out its specifications; it was ordered to the latest possible engineering design, with bodywork in Belco Navy Blue with dark pigskin upholstery, Circassian walnut trim, matching luggage, cocktail cabinets, and sliding smoked ‘purdah’ glass visors in the rear windows. A two-piece ‘sunshine roof’ featured an electrically operated upper panel and a sliding glass inner panel, so that the sun’s rays could be let in with drafts on cooler British days. Reportedly, the car sold by 11:00 a.m. on the day of the Motor Show’s opening to original owner, Robert Constantine Graseby, a prominent British electrical engineer, in whose ownership it remained until after World War II. It was sold via a Scottish dealer in 1955 to Norris H. Allen, and was shipped to Boston, collected dockside by its new owner, and driven to New York, so that J.S. Inskip could mount sealed-beam headlamps, then onward west to St. Louis.” https://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin Read more
