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The Silver Ghost: A Supernatural Car by Jonathan Harley (Hardback, 2007)

To say that Jonathan Harley kws his subject inside out is exaggeration; in the past four decades he has restored over one hundred Rolls-Royce Silver Ghosts, frequently resurrecting them from little more than a pile of scrap or a long-abandoned chassis. He kws every nut and bolt of these magnificent vehicles, an intimate kwledge that was put to good use in identifying, sometimes only by bolt design or the position of a hole in a crossmember, exactly which chassis he was working on, settling disputes over authenticity which had reverberated for years. But in this fascinating and entertaining book, he also gives us a wider picture of the car that was dubbed 'the best in the world'; how it came about, why it looked as it did, how it compared to its contemporaries, and how people viewed it, both a hundred years ago and today. The Silver Ghost. A Supernatural Car is a personal recollection of the car restoration business from its infancy, working on the exciting 'barn finds' of forgotten vehicles bought for scrap value, which would later command dizzy sums at auction. Jonathan also introduces us to the numerous larger-than-life personalities he met along the way, and the adventures they brought in their wake -bizarre, exotic, frequently amusing, and occasionally life-threatening. Many rarely-seen and unpublished pictures are included, spanning the century of a car whose engineering brilliance made the experience of driving truly'supernatural'.

Place of Publication
Loughborough
Spine
30mm
Content Note
220 Black and White and Colour Photographs
Author Biography
JONATHAN HARLEY served in the Royal Armoured Corps in Malaya and Germany, where he acquired practical experience working on Rolls-Royce military engines. He followed a career in mechanical engineering until the chance discovery of an abandoned 1926 Rolls-Royce Phantom I and its subsequent restoration led him to found J. N. Harley Engineering, one of the foremost restoration shops in the United Kingdom working almost exclusively on the Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost.
Date of Publication
15/06/2007
Country of Publication
United Kingdom

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