The fashionable Rolls-Royce Phantom is the automaker’s flagship luxurious automobile, partly due to the pedigree constructed up by predecessors just like the 1930 mannequin featured on this episode of “Jay Leno’s Storage.”

It is one among many spectacular traditional automobiles from California’s Nethercutt Assortment, and it is also one one among 25 examples with our bodies from New York coachbuilder Brewster. This one options the so-called city automobile configuration, the place an open cockpit sits on the entrance and a closed passenger compartment on the again.

Additionally setting this automobile aside is the wicker-like detailing on the rear doorways. It took a father-and-son group a month to breed this throughout the automobile’s restoration, Nethercutt Assortment Vice President Cameron Richards says within the video. Rolls-Royce continues to be incorporating intricate particulars like this into fashionable bespoke builds like the Phantom Syntopia, which sports activities a posh iridescent paint job.

Using on a 150-inch wheelbase, the Phantom weighs about 7,000 kilos, in keeping with Richards. Transferring all of that weight is an overhead-valve inline-6 producing roughly 120 hp, related to a 4-speed guide transmission. That is not nice for the period, however not unhealthy both, in keeping with Richards, who provides {that a} wholesome quantity of torque makes the automobile pretty drivable.

Just like the Nethercutt Assortment’s 1923 McFarlan Mannequin 154, which was owned by comic “Fatty” Arbuckle, this Phantom has some Hollywood historical past. Actress Constance Bennett bought it from its authentic proprietor in 1936, and saved it till her husband misplaced it in a poker recreation in 1948.

It was additionally rented out as a film prop at a price of $250 a day at one level, which was greater than most actors made on the time, Richards says.

Leno and Richards choose the Phantom to be a cushty cruiser, however not as quick the Duesenbergs this automobile would have been in comparison with in its day. That is acceptable given Rolls-Royce’s conventional emphasis on consolation over pace, and the comparatively primitive brakes are lower than the duty of fast stops, anyway.