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£100,280 • £149,090 - £175,400

1923 Rolls-Royce 40/50hp Silver Ghost Piccadilly Roadster

France • 30 Jan 2026 • Lot 132

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AI Listing Summary

This 1923 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is a desirable, sporting model with original chassis, engine, and coachwork. It features an older restoration and has been under the same family ownership since 2000, with an engine rebuild around 2005; it's currently registered in Sweden.

Condition

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The car is described as in good original condition but has undergone an older restoration in the 1970s-1980s with the engine rebuilt around 2005. This suggests moderate wear and the need for some reconditioning to bring it to a higher standard.

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• The most desirable, sporting Springfield Silver Ghost • Original chassis, engine, and coachwork • An older restoration • Same family ownership since 2000 • Engine professionally rebuilt circa 2005 • Registered in Sweden In December 1919 the newly created Rolls-Royce of America Incorporated purchased the American Wire Wheel Company's plant in Springfield, Massachusetts, from which the first US-built Silver Ghost emerged in January 1921.

Unlike its British-built counterpart, the American 'Ghost could be ordered with 'factory' bodywork, usually by Brewster, the latter company being taken over by Rolls-Royce in December 1925.

Right-hand drive remained the norm for US-built cars until early in 1925, the penultimate year of Silver Ghost production, when the switch was made to left-hand drive.

The model was replaced by the New Phantom (retrospectively Phantom I) in 1926.

Prior to its acquisition of Brewster, Rolls-Royce of America Inc had set up the Rolls-Royce Custom Coach Works (RRCCW...