1971 ROLLS ROYCE CORNICHE SCRAPPED
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- čas přidán 4. 09. 2024
- This Rolls might be the coolest car to come into the yard. It would have been nice to see this car in it prime. Kinda curious if anyone famous owns this car when it was new considering the price tag on this car when it was first sold.
I own a ‘71 Corniche in worse condition than that. I paid £6,500 for it two years ago and was delighted to - just a month later on eBay a mid-70s project Corniche in even worst condition made around twice that. I’m slowly restoring it - my mechanic got the engine going in no time despite decades in a barn, and the interior is being restored prior to me sorting out the sills and arches before paint. You’re sitting on a ten grand car there in the U.K. (Also, the ‘71 is unique as it’s the only year with the wooden steering wheel, making it even more desirable…)
How much are you into it now mate? Money pit I expect, mine is and it’s on the road 😂😂
The Reg plate (licence plate ) 16 MOE
Shows up with that car here in the Uk saying its last owner change was 30 august 1984 ,
6745 cc , first registered 30 april 1971 ,Its road tax was dues on 01 feb 1984 lmao ,,
If he still has the UK log book / registration then that plate alone is worth a few thousand quid.
Yes, strangely it hasn't got an export marker on it so the DVLA computer thinks the car is still in the UK. Because of that it might still be possible to sell the registration, even without the documents. Could be worth as much as £10k.
Nope couldn’t do it without spending some serious money, to transfer a plate both cars need to be totally road legal, that includes moted,taxed and insured. Now due to the age that car would qualify as mot and tax exempt but as it’s been of the road so long I doubt any insurance company would cover it with it being moted 1st, they do this to stop people buying old wreaks, insuring them then putting in a claim, in my experience any classic vehicle that’s been of the road more than 10 years will need an mot before an insurance company will cover it.
That's fantastic 😊 🇬🇧
Save the engine/ Box !
How could anyone scrape such a beautiful and valuable car😢😢😢
This is junk. It would greatly exceed its $80,000 value, if concours, to attempt to restore it.
I doubt it. Sorry.
Because they are heartless like most scrappers. They only see the metal and the money they get for it.
It's not worth much. It would only be worth £10k even if in good condition.
@@izmirubel9821Not really heartless, they're making a living.
Worth a lot of money as is. Restored, between $80 to $120,000.00 .Now early series 1, demand good money, the last true Rolls Royces made in Engkand UK.
The Corniche ('corneesh') was hand built by Mulliner Park Ward and was a seriously expensive car. This one left the UK in 1984. It's certainly not scrap and is worth enough now to restore on a DIY basis.
This one is in really desperate condition.
@@htimsidNo it's not compared to ones used in the UK with our salted roads.
It can live again, and should be on-sold to a person that would undertake a complete restoration. Once restored to new condition, the reward is huge! It is mostly intact, except for the poor work done - on the Front Clip. A most unique car like that should be saved at all costs. It would break Gary Mavers heart to see this! Greetings from Australia.
is it possible to keep relatively low cost? lower the bar, make things, 3D print, use parts for other cars.. FrankenRolls 😜
I'm shocked ,what valuable piece of a classic it is, this is crazy 😮
A lways a shame to see a car like this being trashed 😢
Worth a fortune! Get it done 🏴😀
As noted below, these were built with the body welded together as a unit. The fender (wing) is not bolted on and not the result of an accident. Looks like someone spliced on the front section judging by the weld line in the middle of the left wing. And it came with a Turbo 400, Harrison A/C compressor and Saginaw power steering pump. All compliments of GM. I bet it will run. Good luck with it.
What a restoration project.
Rolls Royce used GM transmissions on these out of the factory...
Correct, this would have a THM400 in it.
@@googleusergpI thought it was the GM400 Hydramatic. RR also used Citroen suspension.
@@TheGeezzer You mean "THM" (Turbo Hydramatic) 400 which is what they used.
@@googleusergp Oh right, thanks for the correction! THM400 Got it!
The window crank is the emergency one for the door electric windows. It has key holes in the lower edges of the doors lower trim. It would have been stored in little clips in the trunk/boot side lining. The GM transmission was original. It’s very original and looks like nothing is missing from it.
LH and RH parking switch is roadside parking markerlight (sidelight = small ligthts fron tnd rear red tail light) for when you park at night on roadside - 9:05
ps , Mulliner Park Ward was a subsidiary of Rolls-Royce and made bespoke bodies in London mainly for Rolls-Royce and Bentley motor cars, but also others such as Alvis. The coachbuilding business closed in 1991 but the Mulliner name is used for the personal commissioning department of the current Bentley manufacturer.
Good job on the marker lights. I was going to tell him but you beat me to it. Also so he knows I know Mercedes used to have the same marker light set up. I don't know if they still do or not
I was about to comment on the parking lights, but you got it. I used to have a Porsche 914 which had this parking feature, but it's completely hidden. To use it, you just push the turn signal stalk for left or right, with the ignition off, which illuminates the parking lights on the left or right side of the car. There's nothing stated in the owner's manual about it, so I just thought it was some weird circuitry oops on the part of the engineers that made it into production. I never knew it was actually a feature the entire time I owned the car.
That thing is quite desirable and restorable in the right hands....
Those cars are hand made...
It's a shame it got to that condition, but I definitely wouldn't crush it.
At 4:53 that ash tray looks like brand new ! - This car is 53 years old now in 2024 and it has a UK private plate, the private on this car is pretty valuable here in England ! - Cool car for it's time hope you guys will fix it up and bring it back to it's formal glory... 👍👍👍
Please do not assume that this car has no value. There would be demand for this car.
Everything has a value but in this case this is a parts car that is where its value is, its too far gone to be economically restored the restoration price outstrips the vehicle value, I have been professional restoring vintage cars since 1990, have restored two Bentleys and one silver shadow in my time and I can tell you the cost to bring this car up to just a useable standard would exceed £45k at current prices and that's a conservative quote you are looking at a further 30k to make it a concours restoration.
@@Azureecosse Good god, man. I know it's a parts car. But there is demand, and there is still considerable value.
OMG what a rare classic to see scraped . I uploaded a rolls Royce silver shadow on my channel here in down under. As new the one i saw
15:15 I do believe that RR were lead-loaded on the joints (panel gaps.) Jaguar used to do the same!
You're right.
In Britain this is known as a FHC
fixed head coupe, the interior colour is probably parchment. The brakes run off a pump mounted on the top of the engine,brake fluid will be standard dot 3 or 4 I'd replace all the flexible brake lines, there is a brake valve unit mounted underneath the O/S RHS Door under a cover, to bleed brakes simply fill reservior, start engine, apply brake pedal and crack bleed nipples on calipers,no pumping brakes and holding.
Hope this helps 👍
The tool is a backup window crank; in the event the power motors fail. The access ports are in the inner doors.
Im a Brit in the UK and have to say that the General Motors hydramatic gearbox was perhaps the best in the world. I think it was the GM400 used on the Rolls-Royce. A 3-speed box that was ultra-reliable, genuine American efficiency! I have to take my hat off to American engineering here!
General Motors Turbo Hydramatic 400 (THM400), same as used in other GM models here in the US at the time.
You're right, It was a GM 400 Box
Keep it whole that’s where the money is !!
The figurehead is ok and the back-plate „Corniche“ !!!! I am surprised !!!!
Hi, just watched Rolls Royce. Could you please tell me where abouts in the country are you and do you want to sell it? Thank you
Hmmm.... North Carolina tags..a good guess would be it is(was) Jim Bakker's car that got auctioned off in the Heritage USA auction after the scandal.
Wow!
You can get some good money for the hub caps and the grill
ATTENTION FOLKS: A 2 door coupe right hand drive RR is so freaking rare, the 4 door is not but this one is. I live in Georgia and you do not need a title of a car, Bill Of Sale will work. Someone if possible sav this rare car. 21 MOTORS, PLEASE DO NOT SCRAP THIS CAR OUT, PLEASE, PUT IT IN A DRIVE PLACE AND ADVERTISE THE CAR AS A WHOLE CAR AND SALE IT THAT WAY, PLEASE.. There are less that 200 total of these cars in the World.. GM Tranny is what was original in this car
I was gonna say the same - do not scrap.
I am sure we will be out voted on this,@@CortinasAndClassics
Low red line at around 4700 rpm.I don't think it's fuel injected because it looks like two SU carburettors each side feeding the intake manifolds.Why did it end up in the USA being right hand drive?
I may be wrong . . . but . . . the switch for the "Parking lights" switches either the L/H side lights or the R/H side side lights on . . . depending which side of the road your parked.
It's a "Monocoque" construction . . . the wings, front & rear and the front & rear panels, roof and floor are welded into one piece.
She's going to need a lot of TLC . . . . ouch on the Wallet . . . or Bill Fold as you chaps say or sell for parts.
Bangers and Cash!
It's beyond economical repair unless money is no object
Hi if you are parting this car out . I would be interested in buying a few parts from you. Could you please let me know. Thanking you in advance. Kind regards.
Stuart.
Hope you can restore it. It is dreadful it has been neglected like that. A lot of people would have loved to have given it a home rather than leaving it to rot.
The Coupe Corniche today are as rare as hens teeth. Get it in the hands of a Rolls Collector. They’ll get it up and going and restore it or find homes for all of the parts.
Keeping ‘video-taping’ alive in 2024…
The last owner should be charged with Rolls-Royce abuse !
It's worth parting it out. There's more value in the parts light light bezels and corner markers... door handles etc.
It’s estimated that 65% of all the Rolls Royces ever made are still running! That’s how good these cars are.
Somebody rescue it!
It's worth saving.
The RR is still registered in the UK check search MOT Check add the reg number
Personalised licence plate it would have been sold and is now on a different car.
A UK 1969 plate would be three letters, three numbers with G on the end for the 69 year
@@Foxhunter359 Its still attached to the Rolls Royce if it wasn't the plate would be attached to something else on the search.
@@Foxhunter359 DVLA computer says the reg is still on this car.
I would salvage those front seats for a restorod. Can you imagine having seats out of a Rolls Royce?
Can you imagine how much this would be worth restored. Done well millions.
Don't scrap it. sell to a rolls collector. These are seriously rare.
well worth saving the engain, its a massive unit. could really get some horse power out of it
Rodd Sala from ParkWards motorcars in Chicago could be interested to buy this RR. Could be good for parts. See his videos or the web site.
Sad to see someone leave this Rolls for dead when it was only 24 years old or thereabouts. Especially the relatively rare Corniche by MPW. Check out the Top Gear episode where James May compares his to Clarksons Mercedes 600 Grosser.
Cool 👍 😎
I'm having trouble computing that that car has been in the woods for almost 30 years. 1995 was 30 years ago...
Put a battery on her clean fuel clean oil 100% she will fire up that's a very valuable car don't scrap it.👍
Everyone talking like this car is worth a lot of $$$. It's just another old sled.
That's criminal to let a beautiful hand built 😢car get in that state some people have more money than sence
The Reg Plate, Licence plate here in the UK would be worth around £10.000 - £20.000. with a MOT. Do not Scrap this car.
Sad, but its too far gone, more profit to sell off the parts.
If I had the means I'd take this and big-block swap it, mini tubs and leave it like that. I've been looking at these year Rolls to buy for a while and they're a total nightmare, the hydrologic systems are always a problem, always, no matter the condition of the car. Theres a diagram under the car with about a hundred lines coming out of it that controls the brakes, the steering, the suspension YIKES!!!😮
Works flawlessly on my corniche. Always has
@@jackd86 How about a little bit of more accurate information here?? Like how long you've owned it, what year it is, who rebuilt the system before you got the car??? Based on what you're saying here, you might've bought a freshly rebuilt car 2-years ago, what do we know?!?!?😯
At 17:37 you say the car probably weighs a ton, it's 2.36 ton to be precise. Still, thanks for sharing and take care.
This Coupe is quite rare. Rough or not. I see a NC plate, is this car in NC?
I think I'd be contacting the Rolls-Royce Owners' Club (there will be one somewhere in the country) to see if anyone wants to take it on. It's a job for an expert.
A real fallen Angel.
Gary mavers would have that looking new in a week sir
A candidate for Jonathon Ward at Derelict Cars?
Thats one Cornice thats not coming back, but I bet theres a few chrome trim items and other parts someone working on theirs would love to have - believe it or not theres still a few valuable parts on it for someone trying to fix or keep theirs going. Might as well strip the few savable parts it may have and take it to the crusher not enough left for any thing else. Definitely save that grille and ornament, worth a lot to someone needing one on a project car.
No fuel injector in 1971, an SU carburetor
Born in a quiet Kingdom... dead in a savages' landscape
stupendous! My personal advice is to let it go. Too destroyed. Translate into reality what a restoration for this car could be, you would enter a dead-end tunnel, the further you go the more you sink with expenses. Keep the good pieces and sell them
It would be awesome in a country which STILL uses the RHD configurations, in those other places, like the states, NOT so awesome!! Now the grille and flying lady are great and most likely stainless steel which is why they are not rusted!! Ill take my Cloud II over a Corniche any day...this is a nightmare restoration situation!! Possibly parting it out might get you some money though.👎
Corneesh is the proper way to say the name.
Save the Engine and Box.
It has carburetors, not fuel injection!
ROLLS ROYCE SILVER SPIDER SHADOW
It's pronounced "Corn-eeesch". They were assembled in London, England (also the door jamb placard says Crewe which was their HQ). No, the GM transmission (a THM400) was original equipment and the suspension was built under license from Citroen. No, not correct, these years had dual SU carburetors. Fuel injection didn't come until around the 1977 model year.
We got the VIN, we win: C for two door saloon, R for Rolls-Royce, H for right hand drive "home market" (Europe), and the rest is the production sequence. There have definitely been some hands in this one, that's for sure. No, those are parking light controls as others have noted.
Not correct, Corniche model was always assembled in London @ HJ Mulliner Park Ward!
True but look at the door jamb plate.
412 ci engine GM 400 turbo transmission. I have worked on a few of them in my lifetime. The bodywork on it was half-assed pretty much. I've done sheetmetal work before and that is Garbage work. Really sad.
I just have no respect for these idiots who park cars in a field uncovered to rot and then expect to sell it decades later, not that this is the case, but still he let it rot, so screw him.
deixar um Rolls se deteriorando desse jeito, é lamentável.
Typical of all British cars, Rolls or otherwise. They would rust away to nothing. A Lot of good parts there.
Any neglected abandoned car will rot away to nothing especially if left outside in a wet forest.
Who would scrap a Rolls?
Get it please
The 71 Corniche doesn't have front fenders. These are unibody construction cars.
Huh? Unibody cars certainly have front fenders, right? What they don't have is a frame.
Sell in the United Kingdom. Great Britton, for 10,000 dollars they ship back to British Isles. Sell IT 🤩
If ever there was a RR that should be scrapped it’s this pile of crap. Our family converted to Bentley.
It had Lucas electrics, that's why it sat for decades, lol.
Ohmygosh i don't believe this please repear this car it is steel plate welding welding welding, the wood inside and the seats is for a professional
They were built with a G.M.700 transmission.
_21Motors_ had problems pronouncing Corniche well its Corneesh. And even though she's in very bad shape, I reckon she may still be able to be saved. She would require about 10½ tons of cash being thrown at her though...hmmm. If Izza millionare I do it for the laugh!
The hood ornament "spirit of exstasy" is worth money
Too far gone
There had to be more wrong with it than a $900. tool. I have never met a mechanic that wouldn't have fixed it to keep or sell. Thinking along those lines, you should take every possible piece off shine them up and sell it all. I agree this car is to far gone to try to get back on the road. But you could make plenty for parts.
I'd love to have that as a front yard ornament, every car that drives pass can look at it
pronounced"cor-neeesh'
Honestly these cars are way overrated
You own one? Driven one much or is it just empty talk? They are excellent! The coupe is rare and still very expensive!
I agree slow handle like a boat,drink fuel,rot quick ,parts are stupid money and don’t get me started about the mechanical issues and over complicated design. Oh the seats are comfortable if they work they wont though 😂😂😂😂
They're built for comfort, NOT pure speed, they don't handle well compared to today's cars but IN THEIR DAY they handled reasonably well for their class. What would you expect economy wise from a 6.75 litre V8 from 1971? I agree, they were thirsty and yes, I agree that the parts were overpriced and mechanical issues occurred IF the car wasn't serviced and/or maintained correctly. That's it from me.
Around 1971 the US were making good cars😂 this was when Japan was issued with a numbers embargo from the US, ie America had to export a specific number of American cars to Japan, non of them got past strict controls and they all came back
Honestly these cars are overrated crap!
YEAH .Thats a gem right there.No wonder they are rare🤣
That court car is built in Monaco Construction, it was obviously in a wreck in England somebody repaired it put it on a boat and shipped it to America and pocketed a big profit. The transmission in that car is a General Motors in the later models if it's got a 6.7 L it should have a GM transmission from the factory. GM AC compressor and GM power seats and GM power steering. All from the factory. I would like to have that car as an eyesore to put in my front of my house because where I live they couldn't make me move it. And they can complain all they want that it's ugly but it's a Rolls-Royce so it's art. I want it as front yard art if you'd be willing to ship it from North Carolina to Alabama I'd like to have it I used to own four rolls royces. And I do know how to work on those though I did not attempt to repair that car I would put a set of tires on it and have some boys take a bucket of paint and paint it with brushes. And put it out front as an eyesore to annoy my neighbors I think I could but paint it in gay colors.
That hood ornament has made a stainless steel but it will snap if you try to straighten it I would heat it with a torch and just a gently bend it once it's glowing, I have a grill and hood ornament I could put on that car but I'd like to park that out front it's my yard art to piss off my neighbors because I was a Rolls-Royce man I used to work on them and I was offered a dealership position in Palm Beach and my psycho mother ruined it and then I never got my career going with rolls-royce. That would really make a nice piece of front yard art