James Young produced 11 “open-drive” sedanca de ville bodies for Phantom V chassis, the vast majority of them variants of the coachbuilder’s PV22 or PV23 touring limousines.

The example shown here, chassis number 5VE21, was the only car built to the sedanca de ville version of design number PV15, a limousine with a somewhat more formal roofline and a true seven-passenger interior.

As the car has a rather early body, number 9053, on a later Phantom V chassis, it is believed that the coachwork may have been built as a standard limousine and then converted by James Young to a limousine de ville for mounting on chassis number 5VE21.

Lavish appointments included a leather-upholstered rear compartment with power-adjustable seat, facing a lighted bar, Mazal clock, and Motorola tape deck, as well as dual front and rear air conditioning systems.

The body was liveried for Swinging London, in ivory white and royal blue with panels of decorative “sham cane.” In this form it surely turned heads...