Zsa Zsa Rolls Silver Clouds, is their any proof she owned a Hooper coachbuilt one?

[HistoryBuff]

I am writing about Zsa Zsa Gabor's Rolls, not the later Corniche or Phantom but the Silver Clouds. One British auction house sold quite a tatty
one , appeared to be Hooper bodied saloon with razor edge trunk lid, but they didn't announce in their publicity how they could prove it was hers. Then there's the long wheelbase Cloud II
that was cut into a sedanca de ville by American coachbuilder George Barris who also slathered on gold paint, etched glass windows, gold velvet upholstery, the whole nine yards of Hollywood kitsch, that car
now a wedding car in Holland. Here name is all over that one and Barris himself told me he cut it but I am more interested in the first one, if anyone ever heard she owned a coachbuilt one in the UK

 

[JPSmit]

No idea whether she owned one - and I did google it and the gold one came up - yikes! The only thing I can off is that in the UK the license plate stays with the car not the owner making it much easier to track previous owners. Not sure how you might access this information but, I suspect that is how the auction house knew - good luck! Are you interested for the car or the Gabor? or both?

 

[HistoryBuff]

Are you not proud of America's coachbuilders? Actually just hoping some other Rolls fan remembers seeing her with the Hooper-bodied one so I can believe the auctioneer's claim that she owned it. I wasn't aware that she lived I England. I should just ask her but hate to intrude on her privacy, though I could tell her I met her sister Ava. I write bout old cars owned by famous people--but sometime's it's hard to prove they owned them or were just borrowing the car.

 

[waltesefalcon]

I was actually surprised by the gold Rolls, it was not nearly as wild as what I was expecting.