The Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost was the car upon which the company’s outstanding reputation for proven engineering and superb quality was built.

In production for 19 years with constant, gentle refinement but few major changes, it was as fine an automobile at its conclusion as at its beginning.

Most American-made Rolls-Royce Silver Ghosts produced in Springfield, Massachusetts, carried closed coachwork that was heavy and formal, albeit beautifully constructed and finely detailed.

Sporting, open bodies for the Silver Ghost were rare, but they did exist, and perhaps none were more beautiful than Brewster’s cleverly named Playboy Roadster.

Brewster produced only 28 examples of this sporting body style, of which 15 were fashionably retrofitted to preexisting Springfield Silver Ghost chassis as replacements for increasingly out-of-style coachwork.

This is precisely the case of S208ML, offered here, which was delivered new to William Pinckney Rutter of Utica, New York on 28 July 1926 weari...