PERFECTION IN THREE ACTS
It’s a simple question: why have you got three of them? The answer, of course, is not simple. Although it hardly needs answering at all if you’re a proper car nut; we all know how these things can happen. You start with one, you find another, you can just about manage the storage space and funds for a third, and it was such a good example it would have been a shame to miss it…
Philip Robinson has applied a good deal more logic than that during the assembly of this trio. Before we get to his acquisition of these lovely cars, we need to step back a little way. Right back to Zimbabwe, in fact, where Philip was born and where he lived until he was 13. We note down childhood memories of white cars, so popular in a country where the sun did its best to cook you alive and hardly anything came with air conditioning.
After school in the UK, Philip remained here and at the age of 26 bought a black Silver Cloud III with a red interior. It was a striking car and started a life-long affinity with Rolls-Royce and Bentley, but it had to stay behind when Philip returned to Africa not long afterwards. It went into storage, but like many with roots in different places, Philip found that keeping a foot in two continents wasn’t
