Yes, Rolls Royce are still quality and reliability personified but I can't say that their new models are aesthetically pleasing, all very Teutonic if you ask me but nothing comes near them for perfection. The Bentley's are beautiful though. The attention to detail or any detail you want is quite astonishing. I watched a prog on them a while ago and some customer wanted the stars in the sky on some constellation, in his inside roof and lighting up like the night sky. These weren't just lights that were supposed to be stars, these were diamonds. They gave the job to London's finest jeweller and when he turned up with the finished article they sent him packing, as they weren't pleased and neither was he at being told to do it again. He came back a second time and they refused it again, he finally came up to their expectations on the third attempt. Their leather comes from cows who do not live in wired fields, so that there are no scars, no matter how tiny in the leather and they can have any leather you wish, even rat hide if you want it, there is nothing beyond them. Although the company is German owned now they go out of their way to hide it in a way. Nobody with a German accent ever answers the phone, everything is kept very English

She was right, the Mercedes is no big deal in Germany or many of the surrounding European countries. But then neither is the Porsche or the Audi. All a dime a dozen. The different though with these German cars there and the North America one is the cars there will do circles around the ones sold in North America. They are built to do the endless speeds on their Autobahns there and not so here. Opel was another big name in Germany when I was there. It was like buying a Chevy compared to a Cadillac. Even my Datsun which was the European model could go 34 miles an hour faster that the North American model. All done with different gear ratios. In the early 60's a Rolls Royce in Toronto new sold for $25,000. Ronnie Hawkins bought one and use to drive it up and down Yonge Street. I can only imagine what one would go for now. The American Forces along with some Canadian ones went for buying American Muscle Cars which were great for burning the tires off but no good for the Autobahns. You could drive all day doing over a hundred and twenty miles an hour in a German car but not in an American one without over heating it and blowing the motor. 

I looked up the story with my vast computer skills and knowledge and seen the two pictures available. In both pictures you can't see anymore than one third of it. Who in hell takes pictures like that.

I remember my father's White with a Red stripe 1961 Singer Gazelle. It had a 4 speed shifter on the column and chrome valve cover, twin carbs and a wooden dash that looked like it should have been in a Royce.

Mentioning the twin rotor Chinook does the panel know that Britain had its own twin rotor copter back in 1956? It was the Bristol Belvedere a helicopter that set two world speed records in its day. It saw service in two conflicts, Singapore and Aden but its short life span was its undoing.

Mentioning the twin rotor Chinook does the panel know that Britain had its own twin rotor copter back in 1956? It was the Bristol Belvedere a helicopter that set two world speed records in its day. It saw service in two conflicts, Singapore and Aden but its short life span was its undoing.

I did not, but it looks similar with the twin rotors. 

Same side as North American cars. His Sunbeam Arrow was the same. They were sold in Canada through Rootes Motors.

The Rootes Group or Rootes Motors Limited was a British automobile manufacturer and, separately, a major motor distributors and dealers business. Run from London's West End, the manufacturer was based in the Midlands and the distribution and dealers business in the south of England. In the decade beginning 1928 the Rootes brothers, William and Reginald, made prosperous by their very successful distribution and servicing business, were keen to enter manufacturing for closer control of the products they were selling.^[1] One brother has been termed the power unit, the other the steering and braking system.^[2]

With the financial support of Prudential Assurance, the two brothers bought some well-known British motor manufacturers, including Hillman, Humber, Singer, Sunbeam, Talbot, Commer and Karrier, controlling them through their parent, Rootes' 60-per-cent-owned subsidiary, Humber Limited.^[3]

At its height in 1960, Rootes had manufacturing plants in the Midlands at Coventry and Birmingham, in southern England at Acton, Luton and Dunstable, and a brand-new plant in the west of Scotland at Linwood. From its offices in Devonshire House, Piccadilly, in London it controlled exports and international distribution for Rootes and other motor manufacturers and its own local distribution and service operations in London, Kent, Birmingham and Manchester. There were assembly plants in nine countries outside the UK.^[1]

Rootes Group was under-capitalised and unable to survive industrial relations problems and losses from the 1963 introduction of a new aluminium-engined small car, the Hillman Imp. By mutual agreement, from mid-1964, Rootes Motors was taken over in stages by Chrysler Corporation, which bought control from the Rootes family in 1967.^[1] By the end of 1978 the last of the various elements of Chrysler UK had been sold to Peugeot and Renault.^[4]

After the Singer Gazelle he bought a Sunbeam Arrow. Never seen a Rapier but also had the Sunbeam Alpine and the Sunbeam Tiger which became very popular here.

Maxwell Smart drove a Sunbeam Tiger in his TV series and I bet a lot of people saw them on the show and bought one because it had a V-8 in it. A (289 cu inch)

Mentioning the twin rotor Chinook does the panel know that Britain had its own twin rotor copter back in 1956? It was the Bristol Belvedere a helicopter that set two world speed records in its day. It saw service in two conflicts, Singapore and Aden but its short life span was its undoing.

I did not, but it looks similar with the twin rotors. 

I rode in Chinooks a few times and once carrying strung in a cargo net sling a wack of full Gerry Cans. When they were carrying anything they kept a section of the floor open so that the flight engineer could monitor the load. 

Never had been on a plane that was so loud to travel in as a Chinook. The first time we didn't have ear defenders but we made sure we were wearing them after that. Our military used them a lot to move troops and equipment around from point A to B.. The CH-47 Chinook can lift up to 26,000 pounds at sea level, which is equivalent to 5 Ford F-150s all at once.

From my father's Singer Gazelle

Mentioning the twin rotor Chinook does the panel know that Britain had its own twin rotor copter back in 1956? It was the Bristol Belvedere a helicopter that set two world speed records in its day. It saw service in two conflicts, Singapore and Aden but its short life span was its undoing.

I did not, but it looks similar with the twin rotors. 

I rode in Chinooks a few times and once carrying strung in a cargo net sling a wack of full Gerry Cans. When they were carrying anything they kept a section of the floor open so that the flight engineer could monitor the load. 

Never had been on a plane that was so loud to travel in as a Chinook. The first time we didn't have ear defenders but we made sure we were wearing them after that. Our military used them a lot to move troops and equipment around from point A to B.. The CH-47 Chinook can lift up to 26,000 pounds at sea level, which is equivalent to 5 Ford F-150s all at once.

The only time I've ever flown in a helicopter was in a Chinook in 2002 when the RAF took some civvies on a joyride over Stafford. 

Going back to the Rootes Group, they took over the civil airfield at Meir in north Staffordshire not far from here in 1941 to build Blenheims and Beaufighters and to assemble Mustangs and Harvards that arrived in packing cases.   

The Tiger came with a 289 cu in motor so think about the cars size and weight to compared to American cars with the same motor. They were a Chic magnet for sure.

After the Singer Gazelle he bought a Sunbeam Arrow. Never seen a Rapier but also had the Sunbeam Alpine and the Sunbeam Tiger which became very popular here.

Maxwell Smart drove a Sunbeam Tiger in his TV series and I bet a lot of people saw them on the show and bought one because it had a V-8 in it. A (289 cu inch)

Over here they were Sunbeam Alpines, I had one for a couple of months in 73

After the Singer Gazelle he bought a Sunbeam Arrow. Never seen a Rapier but also had the Sunbeam Alpine and the Sunbeam Tiger which became very popular here.

Maxwell Smart drove a Sunbeam Tiger in his TV series and I bet a lot of people saw them on the show and bought one because it had a V-8 in it. A (289 cu inch)

Over here they were Sunbeam Alpines, I had one for a couple of months in 73

My cousin had the Sunbeam Alpine and on his way up to Lake Simcoe to go ice fishing he lost it on a icy corner and it flew off the road dropping 8 feet before landed on a old tree stump. The impact knocked him out and buckled the car in the middle.