1922 Rolls-Royce Silver GhostThis is the car that dreams and legends are made of. I remember one legend, (it really must be a legend because I don't see how it could possibly be true) was a story that my English teacher told to the class when I was still in grammar school; that a Rolls-Royce would ride so smooth and quite that you could put a penny on the hood and drive at 100 miles an hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats and the penny would not move. There are many other equally dubious tales that still lingon on about this fabulous old car.
After WWI the company built a production plant in Springfield, Massachusetts to try to gain a part of the American market. By 1922 they had made 230 Rolls-Royce cars. The U.S. version was just about the same as the British version and was powered by an in-line 6 cylinder engine rated at 85-bhp at 2,250 rpm. Rolls-Royce also built a coach body plant in America that produced a variety of body types, mostly with English names such as Piccadilly, Oxford and Stratford. The one shown here was called the Piccadilly and was made in America
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