Rolls-Royce Phantom

Thoroughly prepared for long distance rallies and adventures, this car has been treated to restoration and preparation work over the last few years amounting to a cost of nearly £250,000! As you can perhaps imagine, the car is now fabulous, and absolutely ideal for continued rally use, such as Peking-Paris, which it completed in 2010, as well as Paris-Madrid in 2013, 'The Flying Scotsman' (twice, 2010 & 2011. Complete with a history file which includes documentation, invoices for the above mentioned expenditure, and the FIVA green card. This car represents a very rare 'shortcut' to acquiring a prepared entrant, as opposed to going through the motions (and expense) of getting a car ready for events, not to mention the time involved! UK registered.



Chassis No. S285FP Reg. No. BF 5247 £145,000.

Snippets: J F Cleary the Cardboard Millionaire
According to the chassis cards S285FP was ordered by & delivered to James F Cleary at his home of 6036 McGee Street in Kansas City. In the early 1900s J. F. Cleary & his family originally hailed from Chicago Illinois where he started in the business of corrugated cardboard and packing. In 1909 whilst still a resident of Chicago James Cleary patented a Creasing machine prior to the family moving to Kansas City where in 1919 he patented a box-blank scoring machine and in 1939 he added a fastening device and a corrugated box machine to his list of inventions. By the time James Cleary ordered S285FP he had become Vice-President of Hinde & Dauche Paper Company who had earlier acquired Kansas City Fibre Box Co & Kansas City Packing Box Company were James Cleary had also been Vice-President. It is believed that at some stage S285FP belonged to Dwight Filley Davis (Davis Tennis Cup) and then spent some time in a Museum in the USA prior to becoming a Rally Car.