If you're reading Rolls-Royce & Bentley Driver we can assume you're already partial to large, gracious, luxurious classics. Quite a few of you, though, may not yet have one in the garage – or perhaps you've taken the plunge with a younger model from the SY or SZ generation, or indeed a 21st century Goodwood or Crewe machine. Whatever your position, if you're attracted by the 1950s splendour of the Silver Cloud, we think we can persuade you that ownership is not only feasible but straightforward.
To find out more, we paid a visit to the Classic & Sportscar Centre near Malton in North Yorkshire. Father and son team Nick and James Szkiler and their Sales Manager Andrew Welham almost always have classic Rolls-Royce and Bentley motor cars amongst their stock, and we found a splendid example to sample: this 1959 Silver Cloud Sports Saloon.
The car was supplied new to a Middlesex property developer who must have been doing rather well, as he changed this one for a Silver Cloud II in 1961 and moved on to the Silver Cloud III in 1965. Our car's second owner took a different view, and felt that such a nice example was in no need of replacement, so it stayed in the family for three decades before it found a new owner in the early 1990s. In 1996, it was in the hands of P&A Wood and had by that time covered only 35,000 miles.
