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This beautiful Hooper-bodied Saloon is a one-off car with a very interesting history. In 1948 the chief designer for Hooper an Osmond Rivers, was commissioned by Hooper to design a "new look" to get away from the dated designs that had continued after World War II. Rivers produced seven bodies, one of which was shown at Earl’s Court Motor Show in 1948. Fearing a reaction the car would not be as well received because it was as he called it "rotund", Hooper asked him to design a car that was more "razor-edged". The result was design number 8234 on Job no. 9568 on chassis number WGC16. No other body was made just like it. It was displayed to great acclaim as a primary car at the 1949 Earl’s Court Motor Show and would come to be recognized as a one-off prototype that influenced many designs to come.
The car is documented with hundreds of pages of Hooper factory correspondence prior and post delivery, also pages of factory build sheets documenting all of this car's very unique features. Finished in its original factory color of Maroon with gray Connolly leather piped in maroon with maroon wool carpeting. The chrome wheel discs are factory correct as well. The car was completely disassembled and set for restoration in 1983. All mechanical restoration was handled by R.K. Wilson & Co., the interior restoration was handled by Wilkinson and Sharp, and the body, paint and chassis work was handled by D&D Classic Auto Restorations. The car was finished early in 1985, then was shown at the AACA national meet where it took first in class. The car was then shown at the Rolls-Royce Eastern National meet in 1985, 1986 and again in 1989 and was a National Award winner all three times. At the time the restoration was completed, this car had just 40,500 original miles; since then, it has traveled just some 2,000 miles since in 23 years, the whole time being carefully maintained and preserved. A lovely patina has settled in the cars interior that only adds to its brilliant character. The car drives exactly as it did the day it left the factory and naturally everything functions as it should. This car is documented from new until today with all factory sheets, correspondences, owner history, a letter from Osmond Rivers detailing how this car came to be, and receipts of restoration and preservation, making it a storied piece of Rolls-Royce and Hooper history.
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The car is documented with hundreds of pages of Hooper factory correspondence prior and post delivery, also pages of factory build sheets documenting all of this car's very unique features. Finished in its original factory color of Maroon with gray Connolly leather piped in maroon with maroon wool carpeting. The chrome wheel discs are factory correct as well. The car was completely disassembled and set for restoration in 1983. All mechanical restoration was handled by R.K. Wilson & Co., the interior restoration was handled by Wilkinson and Sharp, and the body, paint and chassis work was handled by D&D Classic Auto Restorations. The car was finished early in 1985, then was shown at the AACA national meet where it took first in class. The car was then shown at the Rolls-Royce Eastern National meet in 1985, 1986 and again in 1989 and was a National Award winner all three times. At the time the restoration was completed, this car had just 40,500 original miles; since then, it has traveled just some 2,000 miles since in 23 years, the whole time being carefully maintained and preserved. A lovely patina has settled in the cars interior that only adds to its brilliant character. The car drives exactly as it did the day it left the factory and naturally everything functions as it should. This car is documented from new until today with all factory sheets, correspondences, owner history, a letter from Osmond Rivers detailing how this car came to be, and receipts of restoration and preservation, making it a storied piece of Rolls-Royce and Hooper history.
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