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Zsa Zsa Rolls Royce SC Freestobe & Webb, sold at auction in England

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I am writing about Rolls Royces owned by Zsa Zsa Gabor
One is easy to document--gold one in Holland customized by George Barris has her name on it
but a ratty unpainted silver cloud RHD with rare body by Freestone & Webb doesn't show any proof of their claim of Zsa Zsa ownership in the auctioncompany pictures. Any clues, Rolls fans?
 
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Got more info: It was a 1957 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud Limousine offered in a June 2014 auction , a car which is apparently the ex-London Motor Show display car, and which reportedly belonged to Zsa Zsa Gabor. The man who took it to auction first saw the car serial numbered ALC1 when he was aged 14 at the 1957 Motor Show where he was told "not to touch it" by the salesman. He cheekily replied that he would own it one day - a promise he made good in 1971!
The body design, a four-door six-light limousine with division, has been documented to be one by Freestone & Webb (Body no. 1826, Design no. 3191) and appears in the classic reference work on the marque, Lawrence Dalton's The Elegance Continues. First registered in November 1957, possibly to an Edward McKenna, it has been touted at an auction to have been owned by Zsa Zsa Gabor before passing to Bernard Walsh of Wheelers Restaurants. At that time it carried the registration number YUS 712. The vendor re-registered it as TOY 18 but whilst this appears on the old logbook it is not confirmed whether this is still attached to the car (the auction company said it wasn't). A close-up picture of the chassis plate under the hood shows ACL1. " Anybody ever seen her with it? Thanks for any enlightenment.
 
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