1964 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III

Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III

This car has now been sold.

Registration number CLR 192B

Chassis number 5FU677

Engine number SU338F

“The Silver Cloud III is a car which sets out to do a job, and does it to near perfection. Conservative in approach to a degree which some critics call old-fashioned, it is nevertheless a vehicle which impresses uniquely by its refinement and quality of construction. Furthermore - and this is what most interested us - it is a machine that responds as much to the sporting driver as to the kid-gloved chauffeur.” - Sporting Motorist magazine, 1964.

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Launched in 1962, the Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III and its Bentley S3 equivalent employed the 6.2-litre aluminium-alloy V8 engine introduced on the Silver Cloud II/Bentley S2 - though with larger carburettors, a new distributor and raised compression ratio - and came with a four-speed GM-derived automatic transmission as standard equipment. Most obvious among many changes from the preceding models were the adoption of a four-headlamp lighting arrangement, the absence of sidelights from the wing tops, and a slightly lower radiator shell.

Engine

Inside there was revised accommodation with separate front seats and increased room for rear passengers. The last mainstream Rolls-Royce to employ a separate chassis, the Silver Cloud III remained in production until superseded by the unitary-construction Silver Shadow in late 1965.

This car was in the ownership of a single family, from new, before we bought it in early 2009.

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