AGE BEFORE BEAUTY
Most of us with a fondness for classic cars, and especially for Rolls-Royce, will know a little bit about the Camargue. Challenging styling, of course, and we’ll probably remember that Pininfarina was responsible. More or less like a Shadow underneath, isn’t it? And that other pub quiz fact - the most expensive production car in the world, at least for a while. A bit of a flop in its day. But then what?
You rarely see them, either on the road or on the market, and of those that do appear for sale, many seem to come from the USA. But values have been going up a bit, at last.
That’s probably where our general knowledge runs out. For most petrolheads the reaction to the Camargue varies from ‘Dear me, no thanks!’ to polite curiosity, at best. True lovers of the model are rare indeed, perhaps fitting for a car that sold only 526 units in 11 years. It’s interesting, then, that this car’s owner was only politely curious when he bought the car - and
