1956 Rolls Royce Silver Cloud I from UK and Ireland - Comments

For a very old old car, nothing has gone wrong while I have owned this car.

The only thing that will ever be wrong with this car is the 10 mpg.

The whole interior and exterior of this car is in pristine (very good) condition.

For a car this size and old, it is extremely fast.

The engine runs as good as it did when it was first made.

The exhausts are still working fine even though they are the originals.

Every inch of the exterior is absolutely perfect, just how it should be.

The interior hasn't even started to wear one bit.

The seats are absolutely perfect and are as comfortable as a recliner chair.

The handling is not that good.

And the gearbox gives of a mighty thump every time you change gear.

The brakes feel a bit wooden and should be a little more responsive.

A bargain for £12,000.

PS. I am quite rich and have tested almost every, and I mean every, car on the market.

If you are very rich and can share the wealth, I would be very willing to accept. www.trentwest@hotmail.com.

If you are rich, why in the world would you have owned a Ford Granada? I would not be caught dead in a Ford Granada.

Why did you even have to mention that you are rich, which, by the way, is a relative term? Being rich has nothing to do with anything, except that you had the need to tell someone that you think you are rich. If you are richer than most, give the Rolls to charity and make everyone happy.

If your so rich, why not buy a Classic muscle car.!967 Shelby Mustangs are very nice cars and are worth a lot of money.

Hey ya, if you are really quite wealthy, my wife, two boys and myself would like to hope that you are generous as well. Just 30,000.00 CAD. By the way, I heard Rolls-Royce is making a super-car. Dunno if it is true, but could you imagine...

Leave the man alone!

Good for him - being "quite rich" I guess it means he is not quite poor.

I am not quite poor, so I can say I am quite rich, so I'm driving a "quite Rolls-Royce" (I am driving a 7 year old Renault -bleah!)

My girl friend drives a 2002 206 red like fire Peugeot and I guess no 50's Rolls can run like that little french car.

But this is only my opinion. I only wonder if it's reasonable to spend 12.ooo GBP on a 50 years old wreck and 30.000 on fuel, afterwards. Not mentioning the insurance cost and so on. But I respect one's passion, even if that's a 50's Rolls-Royce. And, of course, you can't find on every street that kind of a car.

Titus

titusbo74@yahoo.com.

Rich or poor aside, the idea is to review the CAR. And a Rolls --ANY Rolls-- for 12,000 in the above-stated condition is quite a bargain. I believe the point is that Rolls-Royces were produced to such exacting tolerances and standards that 50 years later they can run as they did when they were new.

No Ford Granada can make that claim.

I paid $25K for my SC II thinking I would be able to sell it for $30K. It didn't happen, but I can tell you that driving a Rolls Royce is way cool, riding in the back seat is even better. In fact, riding in the back seat is so cool, you'll dream about it! I remember opening the garage door and looking at the back end of the Silver Cloud. Wow, what a car!

Jeff.

Sometimes people with wealth own vehicles that one might not expect. I could honestly see an individual maintaining and keeping very basic transportation in great condition. I have been on quite a few estates in Delaware where it is not uncommon to see Rolls Royces, but more likely new Mercedes, very unusual antique cars and yet there would be a Ford Ranchero Station Wagon or other very common vehicles all within the same garage. Sometimes a non descript vehicle on a day out is better that being inside a fishbowl. I saw a beautiful new Rolls once being brought out to an Delaware estate from a dealership that had mink carpet! But here in Delaware we have been known to drive with very low digit Delaware Black and white tags some bringing nearly $200,000 just to have registered on the back of our vehicles! My impression was that the reviewer meaunt he could basically pay cash for any vehicle he wanted if he owned a Granada that's probable too.

Is saying that you are "rich" kinda like when someone feels the need to tell everyone they are a Christian? By the way, I'm a stud.

Great review on the 56 Rolls Royce. It was in line with many of the other reviews I have read online. A very prestigious car, super quiet, incredible ride.

I'm considering to buy a used one for $18k USD.

Thanks,

Dave.

The Rolls Clouds were perhaps the last truly elegant machines to be produced by any manufacturer, and I believe the decades ahead will bear this out.

The fact that "elegance" has been out of fashion for some time now remains relatively unimportant.

These automobiles speak of taste and style well beyond their currently perceived value and will be admired and respected long after countless others have been forgotten.

I've heard and read that the Silver Cloud was increasingly outdated in certain ways, particularly mechanically, from its beginning in 1955, but I have a very simple answer to that- who cares? The gas mileage is awful, but who cares? This car makes up for its small number of shortcomings by being a number of very important things- elegant, majestic, beautiful, and built to a level of quality the world has not often seen before or since.

The Silver Cloud is a timeless, magnificent car, in the words of Quentin Wilson, "A haven of peace in a troubled world".

Next to the Silver Cloud, even subsequent generations of Rolls-Royces don't seem quite able to match.