It is a marriage, this one. It is a pre war Park Ward sports saloon body, if I recall correctly, from a 20/25 Rolls Royce which got fitted to a much later Rolls-Royce or Bentley chassis (fifties production), but not neccessarily as the first body on that chassis, with a Rolls Royce radiator, anyway. The postwar chassis are too short to allow for a gracefully fitted side spare wheel, so it rides too high, and because of the postwar independent front suspension, the radiator and engine were moved forward so all proportions go out of the window. It also seem to sit on Silver Cloud wheels, with fairly fat tyres, so the car rides lower as well. And given time, and unless somebody tells me otherwise, one day I may even come up with a reference to the above, which I have soemwhere, well hidden, alas.
Of course in the old days, eccentric owners did request to have the body of their old car to be transferred. Usually this was because they were used to having lots of space and headroom, but this does not seem to be the case here, the fitted body being fairly cramped. Also a number of the fittings in the front have been executed in a rather odd fashion, which raises the question if it is a really tasteless recent creation, a rather bad restoration or even odder originally.
