Topic: SOLVED: WTH # 295 - Aryaman Motors replica of 1919 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost

[sixtee5cuda]

This car is a bit of a replica.  Who built it, and which specific car is it supposed to resemble?

[sixtee5cuda]

Expert time!

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[sixtee5cuda]

Too strange?

[D-type]

Obviously meant to resemble a Rolls Royce Silver Ghost.

From South America?

[AlexFrance]

From the Middle-East?

[sixtee5cuda]

It is a replica of a specific Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost.

From the middle-East

[fyreline]

At first glance I thought maybe this unfortunate car was intended to replicate the 1912 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost Limousine  called "Lady Bird," originally owned by Lady Eaton . . . But the rear bodywork actually looks too rounded for that car, it's somewhat similar to a 1920-22 Barker Limousine so that's what I'll guess. In any case, whichever Silver Ghost it's supposed to look like, it's not really very well done . . . The proportions are way off. Oh, well - no accounting for taste, or the lack of it.

[sixtee5cuda]

No connection to Barker that I have found.  Not sure who did the coachbuilding on the original.

[fyreline]

So just to clarify . . . We are looking for the particular Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost that this replicar from the Middle East is supposed to be patterned after, but you are unaware of the coachbuilder of the original car?

[sixtee5cuda]

1) Who built this replica
2) Which Silver Ghost is it supposed to resemble?  It would be enough to name the owner of the original, non-replica car.

I am not aware of the coachbuilder of the original Silver Ghost

[fyreline]

OK, thanks - that helps. Glad I asked.

[fyreline]

After a brief search combining various middle eastern countries and Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost, I turned up Aryaman Motors in Iran. Apparently they have constructed a few replicas of early Rolls-Royce cars, including the puzzle car. It was made for the Saad Abad Palace museum in north Tehran, and the car is supposed to resemble a 1919 Silver Ghost model once owned by the last Shah of Iran, Reza Shah Pahlavi.

[sixtee5cuda]

And the point goes to Fyreline for the correct answer.

Here is the original car, which seems to be on display in a sealed glass container:

[Bill Murray]

Hi Cuda:

Thanks for that next to the last photo.  The reflection in the glass case showed an obvious military truck, my primary research interest, and I was able to find this photo of the truck Googling the Museum.

Bill

[Allan L]

Title's a bit confused as surely it should be Silver Ghost - unless the imitation is based on a Shadow of course.

[sixtee5cuda]

Mis-typed, it is of course a Ghost.  No idea what it was based upon.

[fyreline]

There are much more egregious "mis-types" . . . The last glass-case photo above shows the Englsh translation on the display sign as "ROLS-ROYS".