Rolls-Royce & Bentley Driver

PARK-WARD MOTORS, USA

We better go back to Australia to begin with, Rodd – can you tell us how you got involved with Rolls-Royces?

‘It all goes back to a day in my childhood, when a neighbour of ours arrived in a 1968 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow. It was a dark red, a colour I later discovered was called Garnet, and it didn’t so much drive as glide. It was stunning, and from that

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