bthompson
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Doc and Silverghost, this is primarily for y'all, but anyone else who can chime in is welcome...
A while ago I'd asked, "why are Rollers so darn pricey to maintain?" and you'd all been very helpful in letting me in on a little of the esoterica. I've found a <span style="font-style: italic">little </span>info on the web, like how the Spirit pneumatic system works (egad :shocked: ,) but it seems like info on Rolls mechanicals isn't exactly free-flowing on the Web. A tight-lipped bunch, it seems.
I suppose this is sort of a follow-up to my initial curiosity. Are there <span style="font-style: italic">any </span>good websites that go in-depth into the nuts-and-bolts of Rolls mech and tech? Just asking because I love the darn things and want to learn as much as I can about the ugly, greasy-wrench side of them that no one seems to want to talk about.
I have another question that's been on my mind for awhile. I'll <span style="font-style: italic">never </span>be able to afford a Rolls Royce of <span style="font-style: italic">any </span>vintage whatsoever, so this is just pure brain-candy theory. Of all the Rolls (and let's include Bentley) models throughout the years, if one were to graph the initial cost of purchase today versus the cost of ongoing maintenance, which model would result in the lowest total expenditure? (This is assuming an initial purchase of a mechanically sorted example, maybe a little cosmetically scruffy, but not a project car.)
Spirits, it seems, are the low end at initial purchase, but yearly upkeep can double or treble that figure. A Cloud may cost more initially, but do the simpler mechanicals offset that cost? Does it follow that the most cost-efficient car in the long term would actually be a 20/25 saloon?
Thanks for indulging me in a little flight of mental fancy.
A while ago I'd asked, "why are Rollers so darn pricey to maintain?" and you'd all been very helpful in letting me in on a little of the esoterica. I've found a <span style="font-style: italic">little </span>info on the web, like how the Spirit pneumatic system works (egad :shocked: ,) but it seems like info on Rolls mechanicals isn't exactly free-flowing on the Web. A tight-lipped bunch, it seems.
I suppose this is sort of a follow-up to my initial curiosity. Are there <span style="font-style: italic">any </span>good websites that go in-depth into the nuts-and-bolts of Rolls mech and tech? Just asking because I love the darn things and want to learn as much as I can about the ugly, greasy-wrench side of them that no one seems to want to talk about.
I have another question that's been on my mind for awhile. I'll <span style="font-style: italic">never </span>be able to afford a Rolls Royce of <span style="font-style: italic">any </span>vintage whatsoever, so this is just pure brain-candy theory. Of all the Rolls (and let's include Bentley) models throughout the years, if one were to graph the initial cost of purchase today versus the cost of ongoing maintenance, which model would result in the lowest total expenditure? (This is assuming an initial purchase of a mechanically sorted example, maybe a little cosmetically scruffy, but not a project car.)
Spirits, it seems, are the low end at initial purchase, but yearly upkeep can double or treble that figure. A Cloud may cost more initially, but do the simpler mechanicals offset that cost? Does it follow that the most cost-efficient car in the long term would actually be a 20/25 saloon?
Thanks for indulging me in a little flight of mental fancy.