2016 SEMA BUILD 1932 FORD STYLING ALL ALUMINUM LS6 454 HILBORN CHOPPED HOT ROD

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HISTORICAL 1936 Rolls Royce 25/30 Royal Rat Rod that was a 2016 SEMA build!! This is the coolest Rolls Royce on the planet built by Street Toys. It started with aConnecticutbarn find that had been stored for 50 years, it was quicklydissasembled and the work of are was started, what was used from the original car was the body, garnish moldings, leather from the seat redone to fit the front bucket seats, steeringcolumn with steering wheel and steering box, originallight uplicense plate, headlights and grille. The cockpit was cut for an open chauffeur adding a custom duvall windshield frame and is still right hand drive with custom bucket seats using the original leather from the car, thegauges are vintage aircraft for show only, on the rear the top was chopped 12 inches and a custom plexiglass sunroof that opens and used to enter and exit the car was installed, the interior is done in a Mexican blanket with all the bright colors, bluetooth sound system from ARC audio, the windows are yellow tinted plexiglass,approximately 5 inches was cut from the lower body. The body is all polished aluminum, the reardeck lid was cut and custom louvers were installed, the taillights are from a 1935 REOSpeed-wagon. Since the body was aluminum Jesse made a custom off aluminum frame, it is powered by a 1970's LS6 454 with Hilborn Electronic injectors, Custom Stainless Steel Pypes Headers with Exhaust, 700R4 transmission, 9inch rear end, front dropped axle and 4 wheel disc brakes, 18" Rocket Solid wheels with Coker Tires.We did have excellent sponsors like:Pypes Exhaust with Headers all stainless steel and aluminum radiator.AIM Hybrid WeldingCorky WheelsCoker TiresHilborn InjectorsMSDARC AudioSince the build the car hasapproximately 100 miles on it. You can see the complete build at streettoysmx.comThis car has/had an excellent history:It was a few months after the Street Toys’ electric saw took 12 inches out of the lofty “6/7-seater limousine” roof height that a ray of moonlight shone on the 80-year-old car’s birth certificate.Order reference number 384 showed that Chassis no. GRM41, built at Crewe, was sold to Jack Barclay Limited of George Street, Hanover Square, London, on 21st May 1936.It was to have a coachbuilt body by Barker & Co of Olaf Street, Notting Hill, London, with delivery required in the second week of August 1936.Barker’s built cars and ceremonial coaches for royalty, including King George V. It had built 20 carriages for Queen Victoria.The customer this time? Fanfare for The Rt Hon Lord Tredegar of Tredegar Park, Newport, Monmouth – art consultant to King George and Queen Mary. This was THE key – a titled history. But there was more, much more. Sam said: “This is so crazy – to think such famous people, even royalty, have travelled in this car and here we were cutting it up. “What we’re doing will blow people’s socks off – and I think the old Lord would’ve been right up for it. “He was an artist and an eccentric who liked to shock and surprise people, and our Rolls Rat Rod will do just that!” Evan Frederic Morgan was born in London’s Portman Square in 1893, his father Courtenay Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar of Monmouth, and his mother Lady Katharine Carnegie. Courtenay fought in the Battle of the Light Brigade – and survived. As did his trusty steed, finally peacefully buried in state in the family home grounds. In 1934 – two years before he ordered this Rolls - Evan inherited the title and the millions that went with it from the historic Welsh family’s iron and coal empire and his mother’s Scottish family line. And blew them. An establishment figure educated at Eton and Oxford, he had a government office in Whitehall, worked his way close to Prime Minister Lloyd George, and also became chamberlain to the Pope after converting to Roman Catholicism. Officially remembered as a Welsh poet and author, he lived the high life as one of the debauched gay ‘Bright Young Things’ of the 1930s who dined with high-ranking Nazis in the pre-war years and travelled the world. His eccentric lifestyle included keeping a menagerie of exotic animals with which he showed amazing interaction. These included a kangaroo called Somerset that he taught to box, macaws with a favourite named Blue Boy, and a pond of pink flamingos. The Hallowe’en link? He was heavily into the occult with infamous occultist Aleister ‘The Great Beast’ Crowley, allegedly with a “Magick Room” at Tredegar House and his own tag ‘The Black Monk’.Twice married – first to an actress then a Russian princess – but more pertinently close with countless male friends and a host of celebrities that included writer HG Wells, he never found true love nor left an heir when, after years of poor health, he died of cancer aged just 54 in 1949. On paper he left £2.5 million but more was owed in death duties. What revelations!

Tredegar House

Tredegar House today is a National Trust-run magnificent stately home a stone’s throw from the M4 motorway. With many original features from its heyday, it has featured in such TV dramas as Upstairs Downstairs, Dr Who – hence a Dalek in the stables - Torchwood, and Sherlock Holmes. Amusingly the family trail links to 17TH Century Welsh seafarer Captain Sir Henry Morgan, saluted today in a brand of rum carrying the slogan “To Life, Love and Loot” – and it is that Morgan that generates most enquiries at Tredegar. As to the Rolls-buying Lord Tredegar, biographer William Cross told me: “Evan always had luxury cars. When not being driven about he drove himself but erratically - Toad of Toad Hall was more accomplished. “In around 1920, Aldous Huxley portrays Evan as the fictional Ivor Lomard in his novel ‘Crome Yellow’ whizzing around the country driving a car – so Evan must have started to drive early in his Oxford student days in WW1.” He added: “One servant’s story is of Evan turning up once at Tredegar House in a green sports car which was too wide to be garaged. “His father, Courtenay, wouldn’t have it anywhere and the car was never seen again. “Another servant said when Evan’s car arrived (when he became Lord Tredegar) it would be clocked at the front entrance gate, a telephone call would be put through from the Lodge to the Hall Boy, who would go upstairs on the roof and put up the standard, so the flag was flying when Evan arrived.”

This car was built to be shown at SEMA and does runand drive, it is a running work of art. Buyer is to pay all shipping and transport cost, buyer is to make a $500 none refundable deposit within 24 hours of sale and the balance is due in full within 7 days of sale. You are welcome to come and inspect the car or have it inspected before buying or making offer sold as is.