My adventure in a cheap ROLLS ROYCE!

[@edwhitson9873]

What a genuine guy. Bring him back

[@kingcountrytowing]

Thank you so much!

[@rjnation5042]

Yeah I remember when these old shadows became cheap, paid $10 grand for a stunning dark blue with black vinyl roof one, cost about the same to make it road worthy, quite a bit of that was tires, passed it on to a mate who needed a family car, he drove it for almost 10yrs it never failed him & he made a few bucks when he passed it on too, Rj in Oz

[@kingcountrytowing]

That's awesome, 10k would have been cheap for one in Oz, I'm living in New Zealand now. I think the prices are rising on them a lot now

[@EdBolian]

Ben's stories are always awesome!

[@kingcountrytowing]

Thanks so much Ed I really enjoyed telling this, I couldn't stop laughing.

[@theanomalous1401]

@@kingcountrytowing Thanks mate for the hilarious story. It certainly got my day off on the right foot. Which is what a "Charlie Safari" story, is meant to do!

[@kingcountrytowing]

@theanomalous1401 thanks so much man, I'm really glad you enjoyed it.

[@clifbradley]

Charlie and Mark Spence are my spirit animals. Unlike some other guests that have been on here, I actually believe everything he said that happened. He doesn't need to embellish a story or make up some wild tale like when he was 6 he stole a drug dealer's schoolbus and was kidnapped by the yakuza. Reap stuff

[@benjy6358]

exactly..

[@kingcountrytowing]

Thank you so much sir, it's a real pleasure to come and tell stories on vinwiki, I'm really glad you enjoy them. I'm always so nervous, but I had such fun telling this one.

[@Mr-pn2eh]

Randy pobst is the real deal too. He's the best story teller ever.

[@chrissimes9445]

And he's a shitbox addict, they are not usually great cars. All my good stories involve shitboxes...

[@brianward6291]

Love this more 'down to earth' style content, keep it coming!

[@kingcountrytowing]

Thank you so much I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[@Ovadose850]

Really should be Getting Jason Cammisa on here to tell some stories. I’m sure he’s got a lot of really good ones.

[@VINwiki]

What would you do with a cheap Rolls Royce?

[@paulfletcher3998]

Break it up, sell the parts and use the money to buy a decent car.

[@woodsrdr]

I would probably call Jonathan Ward to make it an expensive Rolls.

[@marcocano8399]

Slap a crate motor into it 😅

[@Mr-pn2eh]

Swap a Cummins 12v in it

[@SLABkids]

I drive my 71 Silver Shadow almost every weekend. They aren’t bad cars if you drive them regularly. The brake system can get expensive to repair but do your own work & it cost about the same as taking a modern car to the shop for similar repairs.

[@KMAaus]

At 6:44 that is definitely a HG Holden kingswood. I’m betting there weren’t many of them where he is from.

[@CrackedCandy]

These are the stories we come here for.

[@CrackedCandy]

Relatable Content. Bring him back

[@kingcountrytowing]

Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it

[@GM-ii8gs]

An old boy I used to know worked at Pressed Steel in Cowley told me years ago that they used to make the Silver Shadow bodies there, and on average they used to put about 2lbs of lead into each body shell when filling gaps, he said that there's so much lead in the air that they all had to wear face masks and no visitors were allowed in because the lead content was too high.

[@joeyennis5060]

Sounds like a great adventure I had a 190e as well and had a lot of fun with it but never could touch a silver cloud lol great story

[@kingcountrytowing]

The 190e was such a great car, economical, great on the motorway a good handling car, and incredibly well made . Silver shadows are still relatively affordable to buy, just horrendous to run 😉

[@fiscallyirresponsiblecustoms]

I've got a 73 I bought for $700, mines the cheapest I've ever seen

[@kingcountrytowing]

I think that's the cheapest I've ever heard of!!!

[@fiscallyirresponsiblecustoms]

@@kingcountrytowing I knew of a 82 that someone got for free, but that has since been turned into beercans, so I regained my superiority

[@shawnmason5290]

To answer your question. My great grandpa payne -Grandmas father -is buried near the coal mine where the road that crosses the creek in the valley in the town of Mountain Ash. All of my families -both sides -even before they met each and married near Canton, Illinois to mine coal. All had been coal miners of course in the areas around mountain Ash. one of my great uncles came here with my grandma and he was killed actually here in a now defunct town near Canton, Illinois -I believe in the 30s. Some of the jobs that the descendants have filled since coming to the United States in the 1930s I have been occupations such as; Caterpillar tractor company International business machines Two careers with State Farm insurance companies Webco dresser haulpack off highway trucks Starting quarterback for the Georgia Bulldogs -Mason ESPN radio and Tv host Answers in Genesis -Mason Proud of my family and proud of my Wales background. Thanks for taking the time to share your video

[@kingcountrytowing]

Thanks for watching, and I really enjoyed reading about your family history, my family history is similar, a branch of my family moved to Scranton Pennsylvania to mine coal just before the 1900's and one of my close family helped to build the railroads across America.

[@kingcountrytowing]

What's canton like?

[@violinmiata]

Charlie Safari tells a charming tale

[@kingcountrytowing]

Thank you so much

[@monaroboy124]

Now we HAVE to hear about the hearse!

[@bodyjar78]

6:46 Is that a HG Kingswood? 😂

[@kingcountrytowing]

Really well spotted it's a ht which is virtually identical, it was in a wreckers for years and I saved it from the crusher

[@Grapeape01]

Love watching his videos, especially as I live 10 minutes down the road from Tredegar and my dad worked in Ebbw Vale

[@kingcountrytowing]

That's awesome! My stepfather father still runs central cars in Ebbw Vale. Really glad your enjoying the stories! Take a look at my little channel if you get time. Where are you living?

[@Grapeape01]

@@kingcountrytowing I've just subscribed to your page, I live in Markham so not far down the road

[@kingcountrytowing]

@matthewthomas2080 thanks so much hope you enjoy watching it. I used to drive past your place all the time on the way to blackwood

[@admin7958]

Uppa Tredegar!!! 😂😂

[@jamesrath25]

I always thought it was sleezy to sell something someone else owns . Regardless if they are selling or not but now I changed my mind 3 years ago because of this channel!

[@BennettBuilds]

Love it! Would have daily’d that thing!

[@t.williams5018]

Might want to check audio levels on the intro jingle. It's whisper quiet.

[@one8s7n]

I live in wells!...... maine haha

[@officiallyterriblehd9118]

Tredegar, can't push a transit down there now without them stealing the wheels

[@kingcountrytowing]

Lol it was a nice little town in the 90s, I live in New Zealand now

[@TheCannonball79]

Thanks Ben.

[@BillyDaKid27]

I love this channel!

[@coreyhayward9498]

That caught me off gaurd being from pontypool South wales

[@gotham61]

Why are there all of these cutaway photos that are completely unrelated to the story?

[@kingcountrytowing]

There just arnt enough pics of the story as it was back in the 90s, and virtually none of us took pictures back then. I asked my mum if we had pics of the jag and rolls, and she said " why would we take pictures of cars?" Lol

[@marchector2387]

Xr2 wow ive not heard that car name in 10 years good old ford in the uk

[@avmelidor]

Old Rolls-Royce are the best

[@thetechrando633]

I wanna buy a cheap Rolls now lol

[@kingcountrytowing]

Honestly go ahead, you probably won't regret it, and they are a great car. Plus you'll always get to say you owned one once.

[@SLABkids]

Do it, they’re undervalued right now compared to other cars of the era.

[@kingcountrytowing]

@SLABkids I totally agree, prices will definitely rise over the coming years

[@chiefrocka8604]

I’m from wales and I’ve got a escort cosworth which is worth 42 times more than a clapped out full of filler peadomobile roller

[@kingcountrytowing]

Lol true, it's still a ford escort though.

[@woodysdrums8083]

7,000 in 1982 is equal to 21,500 now. 1982 was hight of inflation, unemployment and record interest rates. You were one rich kid.

[@kingcountrytowing]

I was the son of two working class parents, I lived in a small Welsh steel and coal town, my stepfather owned a little second hand car garage, we paid £3750 for it in 1992. But you could have asked that instead of incorrectly guessing. You can see pictures of my house in the story.

[@stevo4727]

Great yarn...

[@kingcountrytowing]

Thank you sir

[@kavinskysmith4094]

what is the story with the old car at 6:27

[@shawnmason5290]

Nice guy. Not being rude just not at all my style of story. Thank God my grandparents came from Mountain Ash and Cinderford a generation ago.

[@kingcountrytowing]

No worries at all, mountain ash is just down the road from me, just by aberdare. I live in New Zealand now, where are you living?

[@mentalmetalist]

Pretty sure there’s a RR in Cuba

[@kingcountrytowing]

Cars are super expensive in Cuba! I bet a Rolls would be a fortune there.

[@richardfoulkes3083]

It’s not a Cadillac engine.

[@kingcountrytowing]

Very interestingly I just read up on that, it was only rumored to be a gm motor built under licence, but it was infact their own design, I think the fact it was bolted up to a th350 and 400 threw me enough to believe it was a caddy motor.

[@noonehere1793]

For all those of you that THINK there is such a thing as a CHEAP ROLLS ROYCE that is actually drivable…..god bless you…..only fools and horses…

[@kingcountrytowing]

Ours was, we used it daily while we had it, it's just the brakes and suspension that's problematic, other than that it's pretty standard.

[@markk3453]

I think most americans need a cc to understand half of what he was saying! Hahahaha. Great story, it's nice when your dad would buy u a RR hoopite !

[@glockman9284]

The Ticket clinic is awesome! They saved my ass from getting points on my license and got the ticket completed dropped! No record at all!

[@christopherkraft1327]

Hey Ed!!! 👍

[@That_damn_pink_evo.]

hi

[@poovaneswaransupramaniam6706]

Cool story

[@kingcountrytowing]

Thank you I'm glad you enjoyed it

[@New_Jax_City]

Ohhh i get it! U put this guy on today because its valentines day and you knew people would be to busy to watch. Smart ED! I get it!!!!

[@kingcountrytowing]

Yet your watching it?

[@New_Jax_City]

@@kingcountrytowing yep i watch’em all.

[@Ukrainianification]

Must be nice to have rich parents

[@kingcountrytowing]

Yes it must be, buy I would have no idea about that coming from a working class family, where my.mum worked in factory office and my stepfather owned a little secondhand car sales. What is nice is to work for what you achieve.

[@mccarthyp64]

That accent is so confusing

[@kingcountrytowing]

It's Welsh, but mixed in with a few other places I lived, this is me trying my best to talk slow. On a 1 to 10 how hard do you find it to understand, and where are you from? I'm just trying to make it understandable for as many as I can

[@mccarthyp64]

@@kingcountrytowing I'm Australian. It's not hard to understand, I just couldn't figure out the mix.

[@kingcountrytowing]

@mccarthyp64 ahh ok, so I'm Welsh from the south Wales valleys, but I've lived just about everywhere and I've been living in nz for 17 years! I'm glad you can understand it though, I worry about it a fair bit.

[@syedmakbul8414]

First

[@dompdgaf]

More Ben always 🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@kyotaiken]

There was no effing "story" in this video. I clicked this video because I used to own a 1970 silver shadow. But this video was a fail.