Sold for $52,250 at 2019 RM Sothebys : Hershey.
This Rolls-Royce Phantom I was ordered in January of 1926 by Jacob Lit of Philadelphia, who specified an enclosed-drive body by Kellner of Paris. The chassis, with engine AD15, came off test on March 26th and was dispatched three days later. On April 1st it was on the seas headed for Boulogne. After the work was completed, it was put on another ship, the SS McKeesport, in September 26th, for New York.

The early history is not fully recorded. Subsequent owners include Walter Snel of Butler, New Jersey, and Charles McVeigh of Syosset, Long Island, who was selling it in January 1952. Subsequent owners are believed to be Ralph and Margaret Burkhart of Martinsburg, Virginia, and it may have spent time in the Harrah collection. At some point, the Kellner enclosed-drive body was removed and replaced by an open-drive Holbrook body made in the United States.

By Daniel Vaughan | Jan 2020