Some seldom seen king size

[matchboxkiwi]

Let me know if I'm boring you with these photo's and I'll stop!
Cheers Steve
Matchboxkiwi

[GHOSTHUNTER]

'KINGSIZE' Prototype Silver Shadow II.jpg (39.1 KiB) Viewed 2643 times

Not at all matchboxkiwi, I like the unfinished Silver Shadow II prototype, ninth picture down, It reappeared later, (shown left) as a finished model with it's black bumpers and with a 'Coat of arms' image on the front doors! I've been chasing this model for a while, but cannot find out where it has gone, anyone know?

GHOSTHUNTER.

[matchboxkiwi]

Ghosthunter,
That photo you show is one of mine from the series of photo's above.
It was never produced which is why you can not find it.
I guess it was done for the silver jubilee visit to New Zealand as that's our crest on the door. The photo is from 1977/78.
There was no Rolls Royce in the King Size range at this time.

I think one was issued around the mid eighties but it's completely different to this one.

Cheers Steve

[GHOSTHUNTER]

Yes, I know the model was not produced as a production version, I was interested to know where that actual prototype went.

The later 'Kingsize' Rolls-Royce you mention, is the Silver Spirit, introduced onto the U.K. market in 1988, as model number...K 161, I sent a letter to Lesney suggesting they make this model and I was lucky, they did.

So, is that prototype, with the crest on the front doors, in New Zealand, in a private collection?

I should hate to think it was destroyed, needlessly.

Regards,
GHOSTHUNTER.

[matchboxkiwi]

I have no idea!
The photo's came from an ex employee who was living Wales when I went and picked the photo's up.

Cheers Steve

[GHOSTHUNTER]

I have no idea!
The photo's came from an ex employee who was living Wales when I went and picked the photo's up.

Cheers Steve

OK. Thank's for showing them, see you later,
GHOSTHUNTER.

[SMS88]

That Rolls looks like it is a solid block of resin with plastic grille + bumpers + wheels added -few resins have survived today but it could be replicated by a professional model maker!!!