Rolls-royce Silver Spirit 1982, Movie Star!! Gorgeous!, Burgundy Red. on 2040-cars

MOVIE STAR!!! Gorgeous!  Starred in Iron Man III.  Have all relevant documentation and correspondence with Iron Works Production 3, LLC and production company's Picture Car Coordinator John Armstrong.  The exterior is visually stunning!  And its original!  Have color copy of original check from Iron Works Productions 3, LLC, No. 004043, drawn on Citibank N.A. 787 west 5th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90071.  Was used as the "The Masters" limo.  Probably the nicest preserved most beautiful 1982 Silver Spur in the Southeastern United States.  Also have all the original owners documents, manuals, and maintenance records all lovingly preserved in a beautiful official Rolls-Royce leather bound book.  Even today I have learned more information regarding the car, and I know there are people out there who are insatiably curious.  I also happen to personally think the car is worth WAY more than $50,000.00, regarding both its Movie Star past, its ridiculously low miles, and its ABSOLUTELY ORIGINAL condition.  The paint, chrome, and interior have never been restored, or redone, its all original!There are reasons for that as I learned just this morning July 9th.  On the other hand I am not a car mechanic or expert, BUT I am definitely a serious enthusiast with a background in exotics and an official of the SCCA (Pit Steward) all the way back to 1973.  I worked for the US Navy for 32 years as a technical expert.  Eleven years was active duty and twenty one of those years was as civilian technical expert.  Ten of those years I spent as a civilian was as a US Navy technical expert to the Egyptian Navy.  I can fix anything!  I had a terrible heart attack while serving in Egypt, I now live in a nursing home, and discovered the car sitting in a used car lot, while passing in the nursing home bus.  I stopped the bus and talked to the owner of the car lot and asked about the Rolls, he said it was his personal car but had not run in years, something on it was broken.  He didn't know what, he also mentioned that it had been in the movie Iron Man III, and produced the paperwork you see here.  The car lot owners two mechanics were too chicken to tackle the Rolls even as it sat there years.  I asked the owner foolishly if I could try to fix it for him for free.  He took me up on the offer and I finally got the car working, a bad fuel pump at the rear of the car, plus a bad starter relay. It also needed about three and a half quarts of transmission fluid.  It runs like a swiss watch, rides wonderfully, I must admit I have never been so impressed with a car before.  I started the car once and got distracted and when my attention returned I thought, --nuts it didn't start, ---- but it was running, at idle!  It was so silent and vibrationless that I thought it hadn't started. WOW!  By the way I get nothing not even a commision for the sale of this vehichle, just the joy of fixing it and doing an old man a good deed.  I have congestive heart failure and an implanted defibrillator, if my cardiologist knew I was working on this car he would have a fit.  I worked under the car for a week up on jackstands and hydraulic floor jacks, ouch.

The car was bought new in 1982 by a little old lady from New York state who lived in West Palm Beach, Florida.  As it turns out a very rich little old lady.  She died sometime in the 1980's and her estate went into probate, which lasted for 14 years!  For that entire 14 years the Rolls Royce sat in the back of her garage undiscovered.  Once probate was closed, the new owners of the property decided to bulldoze the existing house and garage.  Fortunately, someone checked the garage before the bulldozers reduced the garage to rubble.  The new owners of the property contacted the probate lawyer in NY City who had handled the estate and they delegated a partner in Charleston, SC to handle it.  One of the men in the Charleston, SC law office decided to buy it from the estate, and he owned it for three months.  He then auctioned it here in Charleston to the current owner, so there has been three owners!  It has never been in an accident or even a fender bender, as I said ALL the paint and chrome are ORIGINAL.

Basically, the current owner hung on to it for the fun of it and could never find a buyer in the Summerville/Charelston area, although he did try.  At one point one of the owners employees put the car on E-Bay two or three years ago, asking at that time a ridiculous price for it.  Iron Works Productions at that time was filming Iron Man III in North Carolina, and needed a suitable car for the villian to drive, "The Master".  Iron Works Productions contacted the current owner, I am not sure how, because the current owner, basically can't use a computer.  In the end Iron Works Productions rented the car for a few days in North Carolina for the movie.  Shortly, after its movie appearrance the owner was giving an employee a ride in it and ran out of gas.  Unfortunately, they didn't realize the rear mounted fuel injection pump would continue to run with a dry fuel tank if the ignition key was left in run.  After, finally realizing they needed to put gas in the car the fuel pump had already been destroyed.  They had it towed back to the lot and it sat there for years until I came along. 

The car is completely original, and definitely actually worth way more $50,000.00 dollars!  Its interesting early history, movie history, and its originality make it one of a kind.

Someone please be serious and we will come to an arrangement on sale of the car.  With of course every penny going to the owner, he has way too many friends lately that really weren't.  And for the insatiably curious, yup, thats the motor home I cleaned the rats out of in February, 2014.  I realize that there are alot of fluff pictures here and I will remove and add more of the car, but the insatiably curious have I hope been satisfied.  If more satisfaction is required I have contacted my hospital and found that they can provide my medical records in 5 days regarding the time I was admitted to the hospital while working on this car.  Further, I have a considerable library of pictures from my ten years in Egypt which I could provide if requested.  I also included pictures of the nursing home bus and the driver I discovered the car with out front of my nursing home.  Yes that is also the nursing home bus in the parking lot of the car lot where I found the car.  I included pictures of my pacemaker/defibrillator and pictures of the seventeen pills a day I take to control my congestive heart failure.  There are also pictures of my back and elbows from crawling in the gravel underneath the car to fix it, but I left those out.  Also pictures of where I worked on it, thats a a book all by itself.  I'd love to take the silly stuff off and give you more pictures of the car, -- just ask.

As you might guess the nursing home staff/management has taken a dim view of my activities and admonished me not to undertake these types of projects in the future bacause of its adverse effect on my physical health.  On the other hand, the nursing home staff/management were amazed at the degree of detail required to be taken seriously here at E-Bay.  I will attempt today the 10th of July to find out the name of the little old lady in West Palm Beach, Florida.

I was raised a southwestern Minnesota farmboy, a slight exaggerration, as my father was a physician at the Mayo Clinic, but we did live WAY out in the country.  Rochester, Minnesota is also home to one of the largest Amish communities in the United States, and I must admit although not Amish I have adopted much of their worldview.  That we are placed here to help and love one another, this often gets me into trouble due to naivete.  So I am not the greatest salesman, but I am terribly sincere.

Remember, life should always be fun, but its not always a game.