The Car's The Star - The Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud [BBC 1995]

[@JokeriPokeri17]

When i saw one for first time as a child, i immediately fell in love with the Silver Cloud! It was a Silver Cloud III black saloon and it seriously emanated captivating glory and class when it passed down the street.

[@Taucher002]

I have never seen this model in real life, only the Silver Shadow II and the newer models under BMW management. I'll have to travel to England sometime, maybe I'll come across one on public roads there or in some car museum.

[@axeljacobs9723]

I met the designer of the Cloud in 1999. John Blatchley. He was a true gentleman. My wife and I had lunch with him in a pub in Hastings, UK! I told him about how much I love my 59‘ Cloud one! There‘s nothing like it, and I think this is the quintessential RR body style that people think of when they think of what a Rolls-Royce should be.

[@hagestad]

Did you ask him who the hell designed the frame of papier-mâché? Its absolute rubbish. Instead of using proper gauge steel they used way to thin one and just doubled it for frame beams. Its absolute dog poo design. By now its basically British tradition to make frames absolute crap. Its the same with older land rovers but instead of crappy frames they have absolute worst design of body metalwork

[@axeljacobs9723]

@@hagestad how uninformed u are!😕

[@hagestad]

its a fact. For some reason they used double walled frame rails. Its pure evil on their part. @@axeljacobs9723

[@GlassedXKE]

Man, the people interviewed in this video would have a coronary if they saw the crowd that buys new Rollers today!

[@robicenco1]

I don't really think I'd want a new Rolls. A 1960s Silver Cloud though.....

[@duval3d]

And if it wasn't for this "crowd" of rappers and black celebrities who buy them these days, the company would probably be long bankrupt. So, yeah, money talks however unsophisticated you think these people are.

[@mscott3918]

@@robicenco1 I've had my Cloud III for 39 years and would never buy anything from the current ghastly range. Rolls Royce no longer makes cars with its traditional customers in mind.

[@mscott3918]

@@duval3d Frankly looking at the hideous, vulgar cars Rolls Royce churn out now, it wouldn't be a bad thing. The name is now associated with flash vulgarity and has nothing to do with traditional values. I certainly wouldn't swap my 1965 Cloud III for anything in the current range. I've had it for 39 years and had no problems.

[@ronaround2897]

Things can not stay Lilly White forever. Get used to it.

[@edmundcharles5278]

Please bring back a limited run with a modern engine and transmission!

[@ericgeorge5483]

Quentin summed it up rather well...A car for a society that didn't exist any more. Bloody georgeous though!!

[@HermanLabuschagne]

A rolling work of art - a floating fantasy - a cloud of class - the most regal car they ever made.

[@LordRocksavage100]

The first Rolls-Royce I drove was a Cloud III. It was over fifty years ago and I remember every second of it. I've driven many Rolls-Royce autos since then. Any of the Silver Cloud series are my favorite. Ford and the world Fords with you.....Rolls and you Rolls alone.

[@dicarlo57]

+LordRocksavage100 The rolls is overrated. the 410 V-8 was a ten year old copy of a caddilac design. While the limeys claim this is the finest car in the world the rolls built during the eightys were typical unreliable brittish junk. While the english auto jounalist laughs at americanV-8s we can never seem to get your brittish layelands to even start. It makes me laugh that the germans are now building your "finest car in the world"

[@LordRocksavage100]

I might have said it a bit differently, Mr. Stringer but I couldn't agree with you more.

[@stringer-ik1pc]

+dicarlo57 Why shouldn't Germany build our cars.after all we bombed all their motor industry to smitherines during world war 2. At least people want to buy our car manufacturer's. because the products sell.Check out what all the top people drive in the U.S.A. ROLLS.BENTLEY.JAGUAR.ASTON MARTIN.RANGE ROVER. all prestige brands.you dumb.hick.get off this channel and go and look at a Pontiac (if you can find a film of one that's been posted.there's probably some loser in America that has.put a video up somewhere.

[@dicarlo57]

you didnt stand a chance against germany which is why churchill got on his hands and knees and kissed roosevelts ass for help. a simple coupe deville will out perform and ride better than your finest luxury cars. your the only people in the world who cant speak their own language properly- if it wasnt for us "yanks" youd all be speaking german- now go tell your prince Phillip he did a good job of killing "dianer"

[@sfenodonte]

@@stringer-ik1pc wow the first time I see an American arguing with an Englishman and this happens for a Rolls Royce

[@chriskappert1365]

To me the most beautyful and stately Rolls ever made . That sweeping sideline is still unmatched , and works surprisingly good with the angular radiator and cabin . From all sides the proportions are perfect . So unbelievebly better looking than the modern day " German " Rollses with their baulky and brash " styling " . No matter how fast or how many bells and wistless , a Silver Cloud every day ! ❤❤❤

[@richardmikus8205]

This show put the Silver Cloud on my bucket list!

[@garyhaber333]

My father owned the 1958 Hooper body Silver Wraith limo for many years back in the 70s&80s. He used it as a hotel limo to pick up guests from Palm Springs airport when he owned the Ingleside Inn. I had the privilege of driving it several times. It was elegant and huge.

[@Mad.As.Hell.Infidel]

Timeless elegance, this fabulous motorcar exudes a class that doesn't exist anymore in today's so-called "society". A monument to automotive art and excellence.

[@stewartw.9151]

I went with my Dad to a garage where he was to test drive a Silver Cloud. This would be about 1962 perhaps. Off we went, Dad driving, the salesman in the passenger front seat, me in the back. It glided along in silence except for the salesman wittering on about how wonderful it was. At one point he must have thought to address safety issues, saying "And these cars have the lowest record of fertilities" Pop turned to him and said "Why? Is the back seat too small to get your leg over?" I just had to laugh.

[@mattcollier5957]

I had a 1962 S1 Bentley, beautiful car to drive, two tone grey with red leather interior, then a Shadow 2 that was a nice drive, just didnt have the majestic as the S1 Bentley, gone back now to my 58 Cadillac, 56 Oldsmobile, 53 Buick and 59 Ford Skyliner Retractable, all these are stunning cars that get you noticed wherever you go

[@johnhaxby306]

I went to a party at an english actors house in West Hollywood once, he had a burgundy Silver Cloud in the driveway and about 8 of us got in the car and spent most of the party sitting in the car drinking champagne and getting stoned...one of the best parties ever thanks to that car.

[@dvanderp71]

I don't understand the vitriol. Quentin's choice of clothing at the time aside (indeed it was 1995!), I always thought he had quality in spades as a presenter and generally loved his choice of subjects and viewing angles.

[@MJ-rz3ny]

To me it's not about the looks, prestige or social standing, it's all about the ride comfort and being cosseted from an insane world.

[@thethirdman225]

How can it not be about the look when only one car in the world looks like that?

[@68Jaguar420G]

The Silver Cloud III was just that final flourish on the line that made it as close to perfect rolling sculpture as any car has ever been. Loved them since I was 12, maybe even before, but alas a bucket list item I'll never realize... Champagne tastes on a beer budget so to speak for me...

[@MrMartmatsil]

gene barry,of Blessed memory,owned a Rolls-Royce,Silver cloud,and was used in his series,Burkes Law.A great car.

[@davidmann8254]

It’s a shame about Jimmy Saville but otherwise wonderfully done. Thank you for posting

[@Palifiox]

The odd thing about Barbara Cartland is that she held a sailplane distance record before the Second World War.

[@Dg-zj6jo]

only the best of the best mr willson wish you were still on tv

[@zeroceiling]

“ I want a White Rolls Royce…now there is an ambition….to heck with working on mapping the DNA strands…or exploring space…

[@bicyclist2]

I always loved the look of the Silver Cloud, and always hoped to own one some day. I don't envy the rich, like many people I know. I was quite surprised to see Mr. Saville. I guess they didn't know then, what most people know now. Its so sad to see them rusting away. Thanks.

[@jamespatrick6939]

How sad was to see those rusted out Rolls, It was an amazing piece of engineering, Ive driven a Corniche, and by no means it is a Silver Cloud, but the driving was superb, and the inside was fantastic, if I could get a car, any of them from yesterday and today would be this, sure is not fast, or compact, or high tech, but it has spirit, it has class into it, and even if people hate what those it signify, I would not care when you get driven (or you drive it why not) in the street

[@Vakito227]

9:21 Savile - "to me, all life has been fun" Me - Oh god, why -__-

[@richardmikus8205]

I love the Silver Cloud! I feel that it is the a classical masterpiece of automotive art.

[@normastanley5853]

oops a car guy is on the blog..

[@routmaster38]

Years ago I got involved in doing weddings with my 68 RR Shadow and offered several Shadows/Bentley conversions by a local large agent and now regret buying a nice Shadow/Bentley Sports at £9K instead of a Silver Cloud at £3000 that would be worth quite a lot more nowadays.

[@pdm2201]

Kareem Abdul Jabbar was given a Rolls by his Laker team mates after winning the NBA championship. He soon sold it claiming that it drove like a fire truck.

[@pamount]

OMG. Jimmy Saville. I'm sure they wound up regretting putting him in this episode.

[@marcel911]

+Peter Mount I stopped watching at that point. If JS liked it then I do NOT.

[@charlesmacgilchrist3648]

It's not the cars fault so many people liked it that a few pedo t**ts do too!

[@herrbela84]

Paedophilia is a democratic value you know...

[@pamount]

***** No, it is not.

[@herrbela84]

It seems to me. The MP's in the UK and Brussels are pedo's too. In a few years that's gonna be the new shit to tolerate.

[@Cheezwizzz]

I bought a book at a charity shop , the history of RR. Absolutely fascinating read, contained the general history of the factory and car, but the book contained lots of incidental bits of trivia that were just unreal. The level of craftsmanship was mind boggling, you simply couldn’t build cars to that standard in this day and age, you couldn’t afford to!

[@wholeNwon]

Those books should be supplied with rose tinted glasses.

[@jakekaywell5972]

@@wholeNwon Who pissed in your Cheerios?

[@jsl9294]

much better than the disgraceful black badge RR nowadays

[@mscott3918]

True. I have owned a 1964 Silver Cloud III since 1982 and don't have any intention of swapping for a new one. I took a new Phantom for a test drive. The door handles were loose and the radio shorted out when the indicator was on.

[@nicksundby]

Savile - 'We didn't let the side down' OMG yes you did, far more than that

[@Parisofk]

one of these rolls around my town in connecticut, i'm more impressed at how it managed to get here!

[@sergioaranguizthompson6807]

Muchas gracias Sr. Quentin Willson!!!... sin duda su reportaje es una obra de arte al igual que un Rolls & Royce...

[@richardmikus8205]

Additionally, this car was not built to be cool but rather, it was built to be significant.

[@jimmyfleetwood1118]

Well put.

[@solomongrundy1618]

That's one of my dream cars and yes I'd drive it grocery shopping lol

[@louisallyredubiau]

When I was young we've in the garage a Silver Cloud Ii. A very beautifull car I've never forgotten.

[@louisallyredubiau]

It's Always a dream in m'y memory.

[@johndean958]

Sadly this is giving a wrong impression Of RR as snobishness.Its simply not true.They are elegant motor cars, a piece of art.I know of friends who have suped up , wide tyred, loud exhaust utes and they think they are just the best thing on the road (they are the snobs).

[@Jacqueline-von-Hottwil]

I love it 😍

[@routmaster38]

I found the RR Shadows were as prone to rust as a humble Velox etc and essentially a bit of a "kit car" using bits from several other cars like Citroen suspension,some steering joints from other humble makes too.My 68 Shadow had a so called "Crew box" and you got an expensive 8 MPG result,later improved to 12 MPG with a G Motors version.

[@frederickbowdler8169]

The cloud was built for a different world one where you jacked up the car removed the wheels and changed the sparkplugs!!!!! No wonder they are a rare car on the road.

[@pesamas0000]

each car so beautiful thankyou 🌷🌷🌷🥰🥰🥰

[@richardkeith9123]

I used to work for James Young Rolls Royce 1955 building Silver Clouds. I was sacked for incompetence & bad workmanship. 😂😂😂😣😣😣

[@burnotto1663]

But You have bin there and done that so You have something to remember Well done

[@XanderKiger]

those are gorgeous cars

[@kellingtonlink956]

It was replaced by the 1980 Cadillac Seville - the model with the rather odd trunk. Maybe, that is why it is my favourite Cadillac model. Thanks for the video.

[@naveenjoy4185]

It is rolls roys coud three version. It consistendly leading their company high because of their rich and royal hospitality, performance etc

[@sadikmeah4057]

I had to switch it off at the Jimmy Saville bit.

[@TheLastOilMan]

Sadik Meah Get a bit squeamish about necrophilia eh ? Wimp !

[@sadikmeah4057]

mike .D What's wrong with Phillia's neck?

[@stephenbrookes7268]

I am glad that Savile (one L) is here. It acts as a warning. Maybe all of them are like him, but they have to die before we find out!

[@richardbooth4573]

think id like a silver Ghost

[@asa1973100]

Quentin driving around Birmingham, it’s so wonderful to see the old city through his window

[@jchrisiciplan]

adverts are on problem on KZbin. For example just before this clip they tried to sell me an Audi..

[@wholeNwon]

jchrisiciplan Are you on a "suckers list"?

[@tomfinney6498]

Sheer class. and paragon of engineering !! nothing comes close. :-)

[@TheNeverposts]

i want a Silver Cloud

[@7071t6]

People on u tube, did you know that the company did have truck's to hide the car if it broke down & they got told at the dealership, the company did not want anyone to see a owner on the side of the road with the hazard light's on, they basically had the first roadside service, after all the car did come with a lifetime warranty or guarantee depending on which country you were in ?

[@MarkGelderland]

Gorgeous car. Keith Richards had one too, why wasn't he in this doc xD

[@bobwebb1348]

Are you sure? Keef had a Bentley S3 Continental, that's for sure. It was essentially based on the Cloud, yes.

[@michaelclayton3114]

Actor Gene Kelly ( in 1960's ) rode in a nice one in TV episodes of Burke's Law - beginning of show .

[@randywhiting7763]

@@michaelclayton3114 ,it was gene barry

[@markaustin4370]

When I saw Barbara Cartland, all I could think of was... Who's that drag queen? Dame Edna's sister? LOL

[@julianwaugh968]

I liked lady Penelope RR from Thunderbird s

[@steveturpin4242]

Who the hell wanted 10 Morris Minors!!??

[@jakekaywell5972]

A fleet buyer who wanted a small, easily maneuverable, and easily serviceable car that didn't cost a whole lot relative to others.

[@mercedesguycolin3892]

on my car calendar this car is the car of the month for may 2016!

[@global001]

Jimmy Saville 'I don't think I let the side down'. 🙄

[@davidhumby6658]

rolls royce no other car as well built, pride of a nation envy of the world

[@jakekaywell5972]

@Gappie Al Kebabi Try Horch on for size. Mercedes has played middle-field for decades.

[@jakekaywell5972]

Packard would like a word with you.

[@adryansos6696]

A nuvem de prata para os apaixonados por rolls royce. 👏😍

[@MDDeGrande1994]

What a beauty!

[@MDDeGrande1994]

LOL!!!

[@charlesjones5789]

rather unfortunate choice of a celebrity owner to interview :(

[@mscott3918]

Charles Jones Sure is, in retrospect. At the time any allegations were being covered up. Partly, I believe, by the BBC

[@TheGuyFromUme]

Quentin Wilson is the most like a sir man in the world.

[@silverliteway]

Quentin coming out of a country house in jeans and a smoking jacket - quite tickled!

[@RossRossiter]

I take my last comment back, Savike ? Not letting the side down ? He single handedly let the side down in a monumentally disgusting way

[@adamwort7160]

That last house I think was also used in the film 11 Harrow House, ragley Hall

[@SkillMinecrsft]

Omg my school is in here!

[@brandbryce]

Very well done! Exemplifies our "PALACE" brand #archetype

[@billlawson5571]

I bought a Bentley S3 and drove it sideways at high Rates of speed all over scotland when driving was fun, drifting it around I felt like wolf Bernatto I cannot remember ever having so much fun driving. I guarantee that that idiot Quentin would have trouble questioning its handling, it is not a lotus 7 but just as much fun driven on the limits!

[@Cybersib]

Thank God Dame Barbara didn't order hers in pink!

[@mscott3918]

It had a pink coachline.

[@jstevenson7121]

Hate to say it but....guess who did have a pink RR. Number plate JS 1. Yes, thats right. Lived right don the road from us in the 60's

[@sussexlandrover9383]

If you could only go back in time?

[@MrJayfish72]

perhaps some editing might be good at around 9mins in, he would put me of RRs for life. jnj

[@tolisvascos3959]

Plenty of space for kids Jimmy.

[@johnbenton4488]

Rolls Royce Motorcars has gone down the pan since the Germans bought the company. They look proper common now!

[@wholeNwon]

John Benton I don't know about "common" but they're certainly incredibly ugly.

[@johnbenton4488]

I sm now convinced that there is another John Benton commenting on YT for I have never seen a video with a RR in it! In fact I don't even know where to look.

[@EEnnisjr]

John Benton You mean tasteless Nazis!!

[@mscott3918]

John Benton Totally agree. Hideous lumps. nothing like a proper Rolls Royce. A jumped up BMW is what they are.

[@sfenodonte]

But in ruins no, certainly the work done by Vw Audi in Bentley was better and is seen in sales. Today sales have improved .... BMW had understood the mistake and remedied ...

[@musicfan6575]

A Fine automobile indeed!!

[@ManuCarsGallery]

Love this car ... I have one.

[@johnwilson4158]

me 2

[@thethirdman225]

It was all going so well until Savile pitched up.

[@cozmcwillie7897]

The one John Lennon had was the best looking; it seemed a little longer, had suicide doors at the back, four headlights too. Correction in the Mel Brooks movie The Producers there's a white Rolls that pulls up below Zero Mostel's window. (I thought it was J Lennon's) This is stretched but not as much: also the rear passengers are concealed by an extra wide door pillar which blanks the side rear window. I think the proportions look better on this version. Watch on U-Tube. The clip- "When you've got it flaunt it..." will take you there.

[@paulgeraghty1448]

John Lennon had at least 2 Phantom V's one of which was painted psychedelicaly.

[@Anglophile2012]

Beautiful

[@RoadCone411]

Fact: I'm a car guy and I have driven dozens of different makes of cars and perhaps a hundred different models. But I have never driven a Silver Cloud - or even ridden in one - and I want to!!

[@xetalq]

+Bailey&Stella Productions Then let me tell you that you don't so much ride in a Rolls Royce Silver Cloud, as you simply 'waft'. It is as if you are floating some three inches above the road, whilst still being connected to it. :)

[@wholeNwon]

+Bailey&Stella Productions They are beautiful but, if you are objective about the experience, well, there were much more comfortable cars when these were made. Try driving one of the SC 1s or S1s and you'll see why they needed that big steering wheel. Braking isn't as good at low speed as it is at high speed (believe it or not) because the servo is run from the transmission! Crazy idea. The transmission is left over from the late '30s (GM), etc.

[@dicarlo57]

one could say the same about any 1960s chevy impala

[@bradfordbarrettluckotheIrish]

Bravo!

[@DIY-DaddyO]

There's a company in Silverstone now offering a Cloud with full electric conversion. Yum.

[@jakekaywell5972]

HERESY!

[@billckark8672]

very nice Sean, happy miles

[@CutcliffePaul]

It's weird seeing Jimmy Savile from before, when he was still shown respect.

[@wholeNwon]

+Paul Cutcliffe Despite the fact that many people knew exactly what he did and was doing. Yet they kept silent. Silence = guilt.

[@CutcliffePaul]

Well, certainly some did.

[@wholeNwon]

@Gappie Al Kebabi The few exceptionally wealthy people I know wouldn't be caught dead in a RR or in anything similar. Conspicuous = security risk as well as tacky.

[@adamlee3772]

Good old Savile. Yes you did let the side down 😂

[@brucegibbins3792]

The upper echelons of society have always needed cars to show their place in society and to show the rest of us how unworthy and irrelivant we are. A RR is more about what it represents than what the car really is and that is why the car endures to this day.

[@wholeNwon]

+Bruce Gibbins Yes, there's an element of truth in that. The really wealthy people I've known, those with congenital fortunes, not the footballers or show business types, wouldn't be caught dead in one.

[@piiiyathedon3486]

too busy trying to hide wealth and not paying taxes

[@johndean958]

Not really true.I have loved their elegance only and am embaressed when peolple look at me when I drive it.I love its comfort.I love them just like some in my family love Kombi Vans.I really dislike the snobbishness others portray to the car.

[@johndean958]

What tripe.

[@savecolaclibrarynow]

People who state that this video should be removed because a sex offender appears in it, imagine if every Church where a pedophile Priest had presided had to be leveled, where would that leave society. Personally I would edit the video to exclude anyone found to be offensive but this is the program as it went to air. Fact is that the person in question appears for approx one minute and I found the other 19 minutes very entertaining.

[@markdignam3525]

+Paul David Cross Paul, in this clip the CAR is the star, not the people. If others are supposedly offended, too bad. The car is centre stage. By the way, if you levelled every school, monastery, church and the like that had sex offenders, there would be a lot of work going around for demolition crews.

[@RoadCone411]

+Paul David Cross Completely agree - this is about RRs, not vile Savile. It happened, he was evil and the BBC brass covered it up, we all get it, but to hide it or pretend it didn't happen is totally wrong. If anything, it's amazing watching a 20 year old clip about a 60 year old car and seeing how much has changed.

[@Aut0five]

I always it was true that you 'cant 'polish a turd'. That was until i saw babs cartland sparkling like a disco ball.

[@pistoleero1]

Tosi torkeä mainos RR:ltä kiilata pyöräiliä.Olen aina ihallut RR autoja sekä sen Ariksto raatisia kuljetajia,.Itsellä ei varaa edes Land Rooveriin.Jota ihailen.

[@Ronbo710]

Back when Rolls was more than gangsta GARBAGE.

[@northstar1950]

First you have to define what is the 'best car in the world'

[@wholeNwon]

northstar1950 If they defined it, they wouldn't be able to use the phrase.

[@philldownes8685]

you forgot the Mill Hill Hillbilly who drove his own Rolls Royce into his own swimming pool when drunk and Rolls Royce were horrified to read about it in the news of the world ... Terry Downes . reg no of his Rolls Roycewas 860 KPF ... Silver Cloud . this was in a time when if you drove a Rolls you were either a driver for someone special or your were someone special. it meant you had made it to the Elite level of the "in cround" or you were Aristocracy.. This was whena rols royc ewas a ROLLS ROYCE.

[@latrellmitchell348]

Hi like Rolls-Royce car and mercedes-benz Maybach and mercedes-benz s class cadillac ct 5 black wings .

[@RossRossiter]

no sir james savile, you havent let the side down at all

[@wcstevens7]

Ross Rossiter ..Evil perverted child molester...Who escaped justice because of his connections to people in power.

[@normastanley5853]

Evil and absorbed with his own perverted self interest..

[@vibes3360]

When I had my Rolls. I had the mouton carpets. Women would always take they shoes off to put their stocking covered feet on them. All the time.

[@qbal7562]

Can they not edit out Saville!

[@longstonetyres]

there is some advice on what are the best tyres for your Silver Cloud on this film kzbin.info/www/bejne/aanUnIynfZWIgsk including some radail options

[@wholeNwon]

"But a bugger to drive." True enough if not ordered with PS, and even then...

[@mscott3918]

I've had mine since 1982 and drive it most days. I suppose I have got used to it.

[@jongadsby1623]

wonderful Never wanted a Rolls but in 1960 S11 went to the Royal Show!! The car was a series II with defective dampers over £1000 each!! Was for sale at £1000 and had been around 20 dealers!!! dampers were at least a £1000 each Turned up at the Royal Show very scruffy as had been demolishing an out house! special favour's sent into the show ground !!! Think they though we were Pop Stars!!!! then understood the mystic

[@BossChronicles]

what model is that rolls royce?

[@chrisevans7363]

Classic car but I think there is more grease on Quentin than on a Silver Cloud. I can't watch the guy -

[@johndean958]

He ruins the whole , cheap programme and incorrectly aims RR as snobbishness.An elegant motor Car deserved better as a traditional work of art and beauty.He is a prat.

[@jaimelarroyo5368]

Libere a un militar de alto grado de carcel. Creo que buien merecia de pago este maravilloso auto