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I’m becoming fatally attracted to a classic car I can’t afford to buy, restore, or deal with generally. Yet it keeps speaking to me, because with a bit of manoeuvring I could easily capture it.
It is a big, black Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith that can be bought for the price of a very average MGB.
As a cheap entry into the world of coachbuilt Rolls and Bentleys it’s hard to fault: a Park Ward Touring limousine with a sleek profile and a dignified presence that stops well short of the pomposity – or over-the-top flourishes – of some ’50s limousines on this chassis.
It looks the sort of car a ruthless press baron or industrialist would have been driven around in, or the one Top Cat, the wise-cracking animated feral feline of ’60s kids’ TV, slides down the wing of in the opening credits to the cartoon of the same name.
![This Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith would be a wonderful classic car, once the work is done Classic & Sports Car – Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith: somebody please talk me out of this](/sites/default/files/2022-06/Classic%20%26%20Sports%20Car%20%E2%80%93%20Rolls-Royce%20Silver%20Wraith%20%E2%80%93%20somebody%20please%20talk%20me%20out%20of%20this%20%E2%80%93%202.png)
This classic Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith was a serious status symbol when new
The important difference here is that the Top Cat Wraith has free-standing P100 lights, whereas ‘my’ example has the faired-in ones, more like a Silver Dawn, which are seen as less desirable.