Rolls Royce MPW project

Oneball

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After the painful phase it was time to choose a new colour. After a lot of toing and froing and looking at many many RR pictures I settled on Silver Sand (light bronze/gold) with Magnolia upholstery, black carpets and a black hood. The engine required new pistons and rings as they had rusted too much plus a couple other items that were broken, all new hoses and belts etc. The cost of the engine rebuild ended up being about 40% of the total cost of the restoration.

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Nice colour choice.
 

philw696

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Must of been a few years ago as you can't find newspapers anymore for masking up when doing bodywork.
 

Tallman

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Must of been a few years ago as you can't find newspapers anymore for masking up when doing bodywork.
It was, but here in South Africa we still have newspapers and they will use anything to cut cost…very inventive in many aspects and cutting corners is de rigueur so always need to check
 

MAF260

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Must of been a few years ago as you can't find newspapers anymore for masking up when doing bodywork.

I was told to never use newspaper for masking when painting - something to do with the paint being absorbed and rpassing through as well as newspint coming off onto other paint below.
 

Tallman

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Very cool - got to love an old Roller !
Don’t you be calling that old! It’s a 1970 model, a spring chicken in my books. Granted a bit older than my wife but close enough - heaven knows what would happen if I called her old
 

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Next we put the seats and panels back. I went for black piping to give the interior some more definition and fitted a Nardi steering wheel as the old bakelite 2 spoke black original just didn’t look good with the new interior.

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Tallman

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To brighten up the Monday here are some pics of the completed 1970 Rolls Royce Silver Shadow Mulliner Park Ward Drophead Coupe. I don’t think I’ve come across a longer official name…they changed it to Corniche in March 1971, when they added a rev counter and made a few small cosmetic changes. They had already enlarged the engine to the well known 6.7L from the original 6.2L in late 1970. I joined the local Roll Royce club and had a few nice outings in the Cape Winelands.

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