How to teach Rolls Royce a lesson, and force the car company to give in to your demands

In 1930, Maharaja Bhupinder Singh felt slighted at the British Rolls Royce company’s refusal to accept an order from him for a new Rolls Royce car.

Reacting to the refusal, the Maharaja ordered new Rolls Royce cars and put them to hauling garbage, dung and filth in Patiala city,  to the chagrin of the all-powerful Rolls Royce-loving Viceroy and the British ruling establishment,  who quickly prevailed upon the Rolls Royce Company to comply with the Maharaja’s wishes.

True story, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhupinder_Singh_of_Patiala

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1937 Rolls Royce Phantom III

great window system... very good looking design to go with the 2 door body

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1931 Rolls Royce, landaulet body, St Andrews town car

 

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Rolls Royce airplane engine in a hot rod, Goodguys has some interesting stuff to see

in the above shot the engine looks pretty damn good!

the entire car is handmade oversize, maybe to scale, I don't know. But to get that enormous engine to fit they made the car with a ratio that would work with the engine size

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When at Pebble Beach, make friends, you never know where it might lead to, as Claus Muller was delighted to find out, he was invited to tour a private collection of a Maharajah

Above, the collection is partly in a roundhouse, I think it's a great way to access a large collection for a driver, I have no idea if the architect was informed that the display factor would be important

The 1914 Rolls Royce that sparked the tour invitation, was brought to the 2012 Pebble Beach Concours

Above, the original Shell gas station that is inside the palace, as the only gas engine vehicles of the time were owned by the Maharajah. Makes sense!

 While visiting India, the author of the website was also interested in seeing the local repair shops to contrast them with what he is familr with in Germany

Above a Royal Enfield repair shop, below, a bicyclist repair shop

See or read the entire post about the week in India and tour of the private collection at http://www.classicmotourist.blogspot.de/2013/03/indien.html which I learned about from http://www.carguychronicles.com/2013/04/classic-cars-in-india-rajasthan.html

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All types of interesting things show up in the parking lots, it's worth looking through to see what showed up there as well as in the show area

 Either Chip Foose drove in, or too many people are copying his style

Love it, looks like, an old bus mated with El Toro Loco the Monster Truck

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The well animated vehicles from the movie "Tin Tin", quite the variety

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