• Just 60,500 miles from new • Supplied new through the Bristol Motor Company in Willow Gold with Champagne upholstery • Benefitting from c.£2,200 worth of improvement with specialists Ristes Motor Company in 2025 • Offered with the original book pack including the stamped service book Inspired, at least partially, by a new generation of more driver-orientated luxury cars as typified by the BMW 7-series and Mercedes-Benz S-class, the Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow II was announced in February, 1977.

While the young German pretenders could not be viewed as direct competition (if only on cost grounds), they illustrated the increasing importance that the buying public was placing on chassis dynamics.

Thus, while the new model utilised the same four-door monocoque bodyshell, mellifluous 6,750cc V8 engine and smooth-shifting GM400 series automatic gearbox as the outgoing Shadow, it gained a prominent front air dam, larger one-piece bumpers, revised front suspension geometry and, most important...