RESCUE MISSION

It’s not unusual for a ringing phone to lead to the following question for Paul Gershon: “Would you be interested in buying my car?” As a London-based dealer, he’s always on the look-out for quality stock. But sometimes, just sometimes, the phone call can lead him on a personal quest, acquiring a special car that goes on to form part of his own personal collection – involving serious quantities of time, money and effort in the process. And the 1972 Corniche FHC featured here is just such a machine, one that’s truly got under Paul’s skin since he acquired it in the summer of 2018.

“The lady who called told me she had a car that she wanted to sell and she thought it was a Rolls-Royce,” recalls Paul, as we wander around his impressively well-preserved early Corniche. It turned out that