The Rolls-Royce rescued from a Georgian barn
The Rolls-Royce rescued from a Georgian barn
The Rolls-Royce rescued from a Georgian barn
Arlan Ettinger, founder and president of the Guernsey auction house, with his Rolls-Royce 20/25 Shooting Brake from 1933 at his weekend home in Salisbury, Connecticut. When Mr. Ettinger first saw this car in 1990, he was sitting in a barn. for decades.
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Megan Haley for The Wall Street Journal
Arlan Ettinger, founder of New York City and president of the Guernsey auction house, in his 1933 Rolls-Royce 20/25 Shooting Brake, as told to A.J. Baime
In the mid-1980s, I heard a rumor about an old woman who lived in Georgia and had a classic Maserati racing car. This sparked my interest because, at that time, my auction house had a specialty in rare sports and racing cars.
By coincidence, I received a call from a Georgian man who called himself a collector, a person who finds old objects that have value. I told him about this rumor. I never expected to hear from him again, but a couple of weeks later, he called me with this woman's phone number.
Her name was Dorothy Lewis. It turned out that he had many amazing cars in many stables on his property. Her husband had died around 1960, and she had put all the cars they owned in the stables and closed the doors, and had never opened them again.
Over the years, Mrs. Lewis and I became great friends. I made many trips to her house, and each time, she showed me more cars. On one occasion, she opened a barn door and there was this 1933 Rolls-Royce with a wooden body. It was sensational. My wife and I had always felt passion for the "lumberjacks".
Mrs. Lewis was reluctant to sell, but finally, she sold me her 1953 Maserati in 1986. When she died in 1998, her will stated that she would auction her cars for her. I obtained the permission of the lawyer of his estate to bid for the Rolls-Royce of 1933 and I was able to acquire it.
During the years before the war, it was known that the Rolls-Royce of Great Britain was the best and most expensive of cars. A customer would buy a chassis and a bodybuilder would manufacture the body of the car according to the wishes of the customer. So it was extremely rare that there were two identical cars.
This Rolls-Royce is what is known as a draft brake: the British term for goods wagon. [or station wagon]. He came with paperwork detailing his story. Originally it had been a body of a company called Corsica. But in the 1940s it was recovered by Jersey, a car manufacturer on the island of Jersey, off the coast of northern France.
I restored the wood myself and a Rolls-Royce specialist in Vermont rebuilt the engine. I keep the car in our weekend house in Connecticut, the perfect place to drive with my family and our dog, Rascal, in beautiful rural roads. The car works like a clock. It is a joy, in every way.
Mr. Ettinger is on the road.
Photo:
Megan Haley for The Wall Street Journal
-Contact with A.J. Baime in Facebook.com/ajbaime.
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