MEET OUR BLENHEIM BARN FIND
I wasn’t planning to buy a Rolls-Royce, much less a project car, but sometimes these things just happen. I was visiting classic and vintage car specialist Hightone Restorations in Oxfordshire last October. There, in the car park, was a Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow looking a bit sorry for itself. It was dark brown, with a cloudy, matt-finish bloom on the paint that reminded me of milk chocolate that’s been in a cupboard for a year. All bar one shiny door. I asked Hightone’s boss, Gregg Alvarez, what it was in for. He told me an intriguing story.
The car came to them from the Duke of Marlborough. It had belonged to the previous Duke, who died in 2014, but it had been off the road for much longer than that. Hightone had examined it and found it would need some labourintensive recommissioning to
