There is no singular road to Pebble Beach, but this is the story of one car that made it to America’s best-known concours d’elegance and came home with two awards. You’ll note that the “before” photographs accompanying this Restoration Profile show a beautiful, finished car in its own right—though it was exceedingly tired in detail, with oxidized components, torn upholstery, scuffed paint, and the usual ailments borne of long-term storage.
At its most pedantic, to “restore” something means “to bring back to or put back into a former or original state” (thanks, Merriam-Webster!). Sometimes that means something has decayed over time, other times it simply means entropy has taken its toll on original components and finishes. So it was that restoring this 1923 Rolls-Royce Silver
