Sold for £11,250
(including buyers premium)
Registration No: D320 UTU
Chassis No: SCAZN0008HCH20627
MOT: April 2025
PLEASE NOTE: The registration number for this lot is ‘D320 UTU’.
The Silver Spur was the moniker adopted by Rolls-Royce for the long wheelbase versions of the Silver Spirit, and belonged to a new generation of models that also included that marque's Flying Spur, Silver Dawn, Touring Limousine and Park Ward, and the Mulsanne and Eight Series models of its sister company, Bentley. Penned by Fritz Feller, the range was first represented at the 1980 Paris Salon and was a welcome replacement for the long-serving Silver Shadow and its siblings. The design was not entirely new, however, and employed the floorpan of the outgoing model as well as its proven OHV 6750cc V8 powerplant. The opulent newcomer was lower and longer than its predecessor though and, courtesy of its finely-tuned hydraulic self-levelling suspension, was said to provide the best roadholding ever offered by the marque at that time. There were a total of four iterations of the range, via which the models remained in production until 1998.
Supplied new on the 25th of February 1987 by Strattons Rolls-Royce of Wilmslow, the Silver Spur was finished from the factory in Graphite Grey paintwork with a Black Everflex roof and a Pale Grey with piped Slate leather interior trim, and the Rolls-Royce notably features factory parking sensors. Passing through the hands of four keepers before being acquired by the vendor in 1996 from Stratstone Rolls-Royce in Wilmslow (with the sales invoice included in the history file), the Silver Spur had covered just 55,000 miles at the time of purchase. Having covered a mere 9,500 miles during the vendor's twenty-eight-year ownership, the Rolls-Royce has now covered only 64,500 miles from new.
Possessing a strong service history from 1987 until 2007 with nineteen stamps present across three service books, all the services were completed at Rolls-Royce's main agents. Since then the Silver Spur has been serviced by the vendor every two years, with one further main dealer service completed in this period by Sytner Rolls-Royce at 64,200 miles. Residing in a heated garage and reputedly never out in poor weather during the vendor's ownership, the Spur has been used sparingly. Offered with a large history file that contains the original wallet owner's wallet, including the handbook, three stamped service books and accessories guide, as well as original sales literature, aforementioned vendor sales invoice, a large collection of previous MOT certificates, previous invoices, and a current V5C document.
Rated by the vendor as having ‘excellent’ bodywork, engine, gearbox, and interior trim, the paintwork is evaluated as ‘very good to excellent’, and the electrical equipment as ‘very good’ other than noting that the radio does not work (but is believed to be fuse related) and only the driver’s window works. Starting readily and running well during our photography session, this notably nice Silver Spur has been cherished by the vendor, right down to still having the Black luxury rugs he ordered from Rolls-Royce at purchase in situ in the car. Offered with a no advisory MOT certificate until April 2025.
PLEASE NOTE: The registration number shown in the images is not included in the sale.
For more information, please contact:
Paul Cheetham
paul.cheetham@handh.co.uk
07538 667452
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