The S3 Continental was strictly coachbuilt.

Most bodies were of the altered HJM style, available in fixed head or drop head coupe form.

Of the 328 coachbuilt S3 (Continentals included here), nearly 100 were by MPW.

Again, fixed head or a drop head coupe configurations were available.

The most prominent visual difference from the s2 configuration was the four canted headlights.

For the first time, this body was offered on the Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud, as well as the S3 chassis.

The final S3 was delivered in 1966, when the new Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow and Bentley T-series were readily available.

Like earlier Continentals, the sportier S3 bodywork was manufactured entirely from aluminum, unlike the heavier, steel bodied Standard Saloon.

This, combined with higher gearing and the better compression ratios made for a markedly faster car.

Four-doored Continentals bodied by H.

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Mulliner were known as the "Flying Spur", although four-door Continentals by other coachbuilders are s...