Classics Monthly

ROLLS-ROYCE SILVER SHADOW/SPIRIT

Here’s a Shadowy image for you, as it were. Your humble narrator is a sort of non-sensible gearhead ex-hippy freelancer, brewing up monster 20ft-long supercharged Bentley specials with Jethro Tull on MP3, and yet my friend and companion on several very enjoyable Rolls club trips has been an elderly be-blazered big nob in the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club, whose fine 1976 Silver Shadow was our shared chariot. We are an odd but cheery mismatch – Ilove driving Shadows but I don’t want to own one, and Roger loves being driven in his Shadow and likes my driving. Way up in the BC interior on a trip, we silently and smoothly bumpled onto a

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