Rolls-Royce Silver Spur (1995) – Into the Wild

It is not very surprising that this is only the first Rolls-Royce to appear in this section, because almost every Rolls-Royce is already a moving attraction. Then why this one? Well, the Silver Spur is just like a Rolls-Royce that is not very old yet, but may have already disappeared from your memory a bit. It wasn’t the most extravagant Rolls-Royce to say the least, with its mix of classic influences and the dead straight lines of the 1980s. When the Silver Spur (or rather the shorter Silver Spirit on which the Silver Spur was based) came out , it was a striking appearance. After all, he took over from the popular and more frivolous Silver Shadow. Compared to that, the Silver Spirit looked almost a bit German, it was designed by the Austrian Fritz Feller.

We are dealing with a Silver Spur here and that is, as said, an extended Silver Spirit. That extra 10 cm turned out to be a welcome addition for many customers, because more Silver Spurs were sold than Silver Spirits. That was different with its predecessor, the Silver Shadow LWB was a lot rarer than the regular Silver Shadow. If you wanted more power on top of the extra centimeters, you could go for the Flying Spur with a blown version of the 6.75-liter V8. Yes, the Rolls-Royce Flying Spur, later that name would return to Bentley. However, the absolute crème de la crème was the Touring Limousine. A rare even longer variant, most of which were more than a meter longer than the regular Silver Spur. It belongs in the bloodline of the current Rolls-Royce Phantom, where the Silver Spirit and Silver Spur are ancestors of the Ghost and Ghost EWB respectively. Incidentally, just like with the Silver Shadow, there were also Bentley brothers. The Bentleys Eight, Mulsanne (Turbo), Turbo R and later the Turbo RT, Turbo S and Mulsanne successor Brooklands.

Colleague Joost Boers spotted this dark blue Rolls-Royce Silver Spur on the way to England. Possibly not only the car but also the owner roots in Britain, or it’s just someone with a soft spot for the UK. Anyway; at the beginning of 2019 he or she decided that this Silver Spur Mk3 should be parked outside. With that, the car already changed hands for the twelfth time, apparently love usually doesn’t really last long. Well, with the fuel prices of last year, it has undoubtedly been an expensive guest. You get a lot of comfort and appearance in return, which is also worth something. Perhaps some thumbs have gone up on its native soil when passing this Silver Spur, which made the crossing to our country immediately after its construction in 1995.