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    Rolls Royce Phantom l Jonckheere Aerodynamic Coupe - photos


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    Utterly impractical, but gorgeous.

    Found some more details here https://heacockclassic.com/articles/...-i-jonckheere/

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    It was good until I got around to the front and saw that chunky old R-R radiator.

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    And that was *after* Jonckheere altered it significantly to make it more streamlined (from the article I linked to earlier: "In the early 1930s very few designers had considered (or dared) to modify the traditional Rolls-Royce vertical grill but that alteration became essential to Jonckheere achieving a more streamlined profile for the Phantom’s new body.")

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    The car I have always wanted.

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    Batman`s Sunday car?

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    Years ago I was driving a friend to work (we both worked at the same company) and there, pulling up next to us was the Batmobile! Ok, full size replica but still impressive.

    Our area of California doesn't have as many strange cars as Los Angeles, but we do get some. Haven't seen many later other than the old antique stakeside truck the handyman a block away owns.

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    The first place I went to work at right after I got out of the Army in 77 was a place where we manufactured wireline logging truck bodies for the oil industry these we mounted mostly on large truck chassis. But we also made smaller wireline logging vehicles out of things like the 4x4 GMC and Chevrolet Suburban's but had to raise the roofs of them several inches. But one of the strangest things we did for an oil company was to turn a few Rolls Royce silver shadows into pickups or El Camino/ Ranchero
    type things Glen Weatherford the owner of the company hired a guy from somewhere who was a wizard at body work I would imagine at least a couple of his creations are squirreled away somewhere in someone's garage today
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    I think she is really batutiful.
    The ugliest creation I saw on wheels was a Chrysler Valiant (Ausie style about 1974 model with clean symetry in rear) with a nose cone of a Ford Falcon Xc, apparently to get a more sweeping front but was a total failure with the nose pointing to the asphalt.

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