After three months holiday in Perth, Western Australia, it was time to go home to Sydney, and retrieve my ‘unsighted’ Rolls-Royce, Silver Wraith WAB37. Another little challenger faced me: where to park it. After negotiating with one of my very kind apartment neighbours, who had a spare parking space, and making sure it was large enough, I could now welcome it home with a safe, undercover, dry, Rolls-Royce ‘bedroom’.
My wife, and primary investor, was delighted. What a car, so mighty, so beautiful, so huge… Joanne has named the Silver Wraith ‘The Baron’ in homage to the second owner, Baron Hives, and for a bit of fun as well.
Being the proud owner of a 1988 Silver Spirit, I was ready for a little pain, and budget surprises. But I had not driven a manual car since 1965, so first, I must master the machine’s gears, brakes, light
