That time a Rolls Royce took part in the Paris-Dakar

[@michaelhancock9636]

Okay so it's not really a Rolls Royce. It's a Chevy in a fiberglass Rolls kit.

[@geyrek5955]

It's a Toyota in a fibreglass rolls kit with a Chevy engine.

[@zweispurmopped]

Not an ounce of it is Rolls indeed.

[@MiamiMillionaire]

actually only the engine, some other parts were from Toyota, the wonderful V8 from Rolls Royce would certainly have been better, but would have probably blown the budget

[@squidwardtentacles244]

@@zweispurmopped bit of an exaggeration. it has as many common parts with the original car as a race car would have with its street counterpart

[@cmte.brazinazzo2061]

Better than today's buggies with cars names Peugeots, Audi etc ... All buggy

[@Gabriel.Vargas]

No Dakar cars are the original street cars. They are all tubular chassis, fiberglass bodies, custom suspensions, etc. Not even the Mitsubishi Pajeros, Range Rovers, etc. Yes it's kind of frustrating

[@colinashby3775]

A land cruiser with a look a like rolls Royce body with genuine rolls Royce dash and rolls Royce grill.

[@seitenwind7940]

And with US engine ! Rolls Royce ???

[@laurinjoelschafhausen]

Just one minor mistake at the end, with 3.5L, 350 cui and 5.7L. But that did not harm that great video in any way. Very nice work, I really did enjoyed it. 🙂

[@PROJECTDREAMMULTIMEDIA]

Thank you for the correction! We still need to work and improve many details for our next videos, feedback is always appreciated!

[@Stefano_Monteforte]

It’s crazy how a Rolls Royce has taken part of the Parisi Dakar with such a big car as it is, and also let’s speak about how beautiful it is! Well done, hope to see other videos from this channel!

[@PROJECTDREAMMULTIMEDIA]

Thank you for the support!

[@3DPeter]

There was nothing left that was original to the real rolls, except the dashboard, grille and bumpers. The body was made from polyester, the chassis a tubular frame and a chevy engine with a toyota gear box. So it's just a home made car with a plastic body on top.

[@peterj5751]

And indeed, leaf springs at both ends gives me the impression they probably used Landcruiser axles as well. Still cool though.

[@danielescobar7618]

they have an entire truck division. like can over engine lorries

[@DarkKnightwing75]

I mean it’s not really a Rolls-Royce, more of a replica and also, trucks do the Paris Dakar, a Rolls is small in comparison

[@wlsnpndrvs8593]

I would sit in the back while the Stig drove my rally for me. Exquisite

[@kiefercolburn1393]

Dude!!!! your videos making and story telling skills are amazing!! Really enjoying your stuff. Thank you for the time this must take to create.

[@frongicide]

Good video but you get a few details wrong. The chassis was not a bespoke tube frame, it was a Toyota HJ45 frame with a rollcage added. They choose that partially because the wheelbase line up almost perfectly. The original plan was to use the original Rolls/Bentley engine. They made an adapter and got the car running; however the engine broke during testing. The Chevy 350 was then mounted as a last minute fix.

[@eclecticcars9527]

This is a great video. Quality editing, quality clips, quality writing of the script, quality narration. You deserve more subs.

[@PROJECTDREAMMULTIMEDIA]

Thank you so much! Really appreciate that!

[@reginaldbowls7180]

Nah not really. This content is sub par..

[@user-fn1rb9ze6p]

Not really a rolls Royce, more of a Frankenstein that looks like a rolls, but still pretty cool 😏👍

[@cyrussataravalla6731]

Ma786sai Dua I relish my 1982 Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit, a creation of indescribable elegance and other-worldly beauty. No other marque no matter how hallowed wafts, floats, such as a Rolls-Royce does. In truth when I’m listening to The Blue Danube Waltz inside, my Silver Spirit actually waltzes with me. I cannot ask for more.

[@edwardfletcher7790]

The hardest part would have been following it with a fuel truck ! 5 mpg is no joke !

[@billmmckelvie5188]

Rolls Royce has a long history with desert long before being exported to Middle Eastern countries as early as 1914 Rolls Royce developed the Armoured Car and it was used in WWI and in the inter war years protecting the Palestine Mandate! I wonder if will ever someone will ask Rolls Royce if they can assist them if they enter a Cullinan in the the Rally!

[@scottll]

That time a Rolls Royce grille took part in the Paris-Dakar.

[@alessandrog7022]

Very interesting videos. He tells us how the most familiar luxury car in the world, years ago was a protagonist in the longest rally that exists. And let's just say, the rally isn't made by luxury cars. But this car is the exception that confirms the rule.

[@PROJECTDREAMMULTIMEDIA]

Rolls Royce isn't made to race on the Dakar, but De Montcorgé doesn't know it and takes part with his Corniche to the Paris-Dakar 1981! Thank you for the support anyway! :D

[@danielescobar7618]

fffff lol they swapped a Chevy small block in. LS SWAP THE WORLD.

[@ldnwholesale8552]

They fitted a REAL small block,, not the alloy pretender!

[@danielescobar7618]

@@ldnwholesale8552 what makes the iron block better if you don't need the strength for the power you're making and can shave pounds? Real question. I get it if it was a blown drag car, but don't get it otherwise

[@douglascoleman1252]

It wasn’t even remotely a Rolls Royce. Aside from the dashboard nothing was original car.

[@nickyborrisino]

It’s a shame they didn’t try to do something more with the original Rolls engine instead of doing a Chevy engine swap out.

[@interman7715]

Would you trust English made machinery ?

[@nickyborrisino]

@@interman7715 Rolls Royce engineering was state of the art at that time.

[@burnotto1663]

@@interman7715 1959 R-R engine has more torque and not so heavy but is much bigger

[@ostrich67]

@@nickyborrisino A 472 or 500 Cadillac engine is far superior to the Rolls Royce V8.

[@frongicide]

They did, but it broke during shakedown

[@cyrussataravalla6731]

Ma786sai Dua oh indeed a Rolls-Royce remains a timeless heirloom a life-time of unforgettable motoring such as no other marque might be able to grant, so effortlessly such a Rolls effortlessly easily grants its owner every single time one is fortunate enough to sit behind its yacht-like steering wheel. With that polo-field massive bonnet stretching out endlessly before you, and that ever-elegant winged Goddess The Spirit of Ecstasy with outstretched gossamer twin wings, guiding your journey to ever-beckoning new journeys

[@nhilistickomrad4259]

Jeez how many modalert pills and ganja did you consume

[@DavidShantzwildoutwest]

Some amusing mis-mash of ze English language… Peter Sellers. One technical point, you should know, the Corniche model is a convertible Silver Shadow. The car in the story started as a Rolls Royce Silver Shadow, never was a Corniche. They might have taken the roof off, but then again, there was already so little of the original RR left…

[@jusztinnemeti6380]

I thought I was going to see an actual Rolls Royce max attack. It looks like a Rolls, but is not.

[@SDRIFTERAbdlmounaim]

you could say *They didn't feel the bumps*

[@myMotoring]

it's not even an RR, only the dashboard and dials were original. It has tubular chassis, fiberglass shell, Toyota transmission & Chevy engine. Still very impressive though 😆

[@myMotoring]

@Steven g i don't know about all teams, but Mitsu Pajero in their early years entered with almost stock configuration and won many times.

[@MrDlugosh]

Watching this I gather that there wasn’t much left from original car. Different engine, fabricated body, Toyota suspension and gearbox. Only the dashboard was original !!!!

[@V8PropaneBurner]

What a fascinating story.

[@jasonmeehan1269]

What a bs video. This is not a Rolls Royce. It has a Chevy V8 a Toyota transmission and a fiberglass body. Was not built by RR. They only raced it twice and replaced it with a range rover. To be fear it does have a RR grill.

[@BastardX13]

All that early machinery in vintage livery is delightful to look upon. As a Detroit born, country raised American, Rolls really missed an oppurtunity to sell a road going version of the racer. Looks amazing. I want one!

[@flashgordon3715]

its not real, its an f-150 with rolls skins

[@BastardX13]

Purpose built tube chassis, chevy small block, toyota running gear. Doesn't sound like a Ford150 but you certainly seem like a Ford guy, Flash.

[@flashgordon3715]

@@BastardX13 gmc for now. Sure would like an ev f-150. I'm surprised by the gmc, it has no reason to continue life but still runs smoothly.

[@bartuvanquish]

Underrated channel

[@PROJECTDREAMMULTIMEDIA]

[@DiscoforU]

Funny that Rolls Royce got orders for a car they had never made so didn't know the specs.

[@JoesWebPresence]

so . . . a bespoke Chevrolet/Toyota drivetrain with a tubular chassis, sporting the the grill, dash, dials, and some of the body of a Rolls Royce corniche entered the Paris Dakkar rally. Got it.

[@Phanto.]

I read the title, saw the image and felt enormous discomfort and surprise. XD

[@Phanto.]

It's like seeing your rich grandfather's car, but he's drunk and has to drive down a hill.

[@royale4318]

Great video on a very interesting topic. When all's said and done, what they really did was take a Corniche, throw away everything but the exterior panels, and reassemble them around a bespoke chassis and driveline ...

[@briansteffmagnussen9078]

Since Rolls powered Spitfires Hurricanes and tanks it seem strange that they did not make a rally car.

[@brianjacobsen8878]

Do you have any Grey Poupon? Oh shit that's one huge jump.

[@YOUENNNN]

Crazy stuff

[@Ropponmatsu2]

So the engine is is American, the drivetrain is by Toyota, the bodywork is a fibreglass replica and the seats are taken from an Alpine. What about this car is a Rolls Royce? Oh, the dashboard.

[@fidelcatsro6948]

The rolls royce needed an American V8 engine and Toyota transmission nevertheless.. the 1981 PD rally was eventually won by a RANGE ROVER!! Unbelievable!

[@crusherbmx]

Such a French story, about a very English car...

[@Mo_tism]

With American and Japanese drivetrain haha

[@Floris_VI]

I love these video's guys, i just saw you video about the toyota 7 yesterday and when i saw your channel icon under this video i got really interesting and saw that other video's for yours have been in my recommended before, now i'm watching everything and enjoying it to no end, thanks!

[@elstimate]

That's nowhere a rolls... Toyota drivetrain, Chevy engine, purpose built chassis, fiber glass body. That's just french playboy snob fakery

[@briananthony4044]

So it wasn't really a RR. Chevrolet engine, Toyota drive train, bespoke frame, fibreglass body that looked like a RR, seems the only actual RR parts were the radiator grill, bumpers and dash.

[@VintageVaughnVehiclces]

There are a lot of dead shadows at the Rolls-Royce junkyard in Rome Georgia, it's possible to build all kind of Creations from those cars. There's a place in Florida that is building custom Rolls-Royce using the old bodies and different drivetrains. It's the Hydraulics that ruin those cars too complicated and too expensive to repair it doomed a lot of the cars

[@felsozoldmalibalint]

What do you mean a RR? It's a tube-cage with a Chevy small block, a Toyota 4x4 driven by 2 frenchmen

[@russthomson6168]

well, really, these grand tours can be measured different ways, not just by speed, perhaps style, or panache, or gambling, or just outlandish drinkin

[@NaveenKumar-oj7xh]

So it wasnt a Rolls Royce at all. It had a Chevy engine, Land Cruiser 4wd system and a fiberglass replica of RR Chorniche.

[@123fourfive5]

That hardly counts. Chevy engine, Toyota drivetrain, custom tube chassis, body panels? The only thing original is the dash?

[@louly3212]

6:52 is that even possible, Wow. How much r&d was spent on it?

[@तभथमजमदझम]

This is the same company from which King Jai Singh Ji Maharaj of India got the work done to pick up the garbage and even today Indians remember this

[@poisoncustoms3950]

Ok where is the original car? They can send it to me lol. Pulled the engine and gearbox.. took the body and copied it and made another frame. Where's the original parts?

[@factfilenews]

Wow.. just wow! Thank you for sharing this amazing piece of motorsport history.

[@galihxtreme]

For a moment there I thought this was the real Sheikh they depicted for *"Cannonball Run"* movie...!

[@mauromazzoncini5711]

I wonder why they didn't use the original Rolls Royce V8 6.75 Liter ,that's also a beast of a engine

[@elgoog7830]

Sooo.. they essentially sent a RR dash board and fiber glass shell through the desert... what a complete and total waste. All around, very lame.

[@caferacer3539]

You mentioned the worg "chauffeur ", instead of driver. Is it a "high " class lexis?

[@mondeotje]

Yu can't say it is a Rolls Royce, Chevrolet enigine, Toyota parts, nothing original only the body.

[@victortorresaviles9728]

Ya... Solo que no era un Rolls Royce de verdad... Si no un land rover Santana con una carrocería de Rolls hecha de fibra... Aún así like

[@jaynic7116]

What Rubbish. NOT even a Rolls Royce engine. Typical French Scam.

[@DrQualleFiggmann]

How to make a RR reliable : Put a Chevy V8 and a Toyota Transmission in it 😂😂😂

[@blankblank4642]

Very few rolls parts used.

[@maximillionboi]

like everyone is saying here, this is a great video thank you for sharing!!!

[@calvynmercedes6264]

Soooo its not a Rolls, its a pavement special, almost like Frankenstein, put together with different parts

[@mekhane.broken9678]

So it's a Toyota with a Chevy engine wearing a fiberglass rolls Royce body?

[@davidbutter7433]

How stupid to wreck a car such as this by taking part in totally unnecessary so called rally ,what an idiot at the wheel some people !

[@frikdt]

That time a Ford-Toyota that happened to look like a Rolls-Royce took part in the Paris-Dakar?

[@coxsen999]

Was this a Chevy or Toyota (Only a small part of the interior was actually Rolls after all....

[@watson9897]

Never underestimate champagne and oysters!!

[@flashgordon3715]

a Rolls Royce with what looks like ford leaf springs on a solid front axle, pretty sure that is nit stock

[@Hiperruimteindustriee]

You do know rolls makes jet engines, and the v12 in the spitfire.

[@JoslyanakRasitPakmega]

Roll Royce loosing to Mitsubishi pajero in rally dakar championship

[@rolfdejonge3915]

SUPER! THANKS! ✌️🤠💥🌟🌀🌐 @#rolfdejonge@

[@burnotto1663]

Yes 100% interesting

[@wainbanfield6775]

So it was a purpose built off-roader with a fake rolls fibreglass skin??????

[@willgreen3665]

I'm just thinking? Is that bike still out there? Middle of nowhere

[@victorjass3815]

Not THAT time..THE time geeez

[@andysaunders3708]

Sorry, the bits that weren't fibreglass. Boot, dash and dials.

[@george1la]

I would like to see it driving down Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills.

[@richardfarsang5606]

Ah so it wasnt really a Rolls Royce but a Chevrolet with a Rolls body...

[@andysaunders3708]

It's hardly a Rolls, is it? Apart from the body...

[@northencape]

Heck thats normal for a Dakar rally car,they never are bock standard,never!

[@ianjohnston2361]

Basically then... It's not a Rolls Royce... Not interested anymore....

[@lankaat]

So the rolls grille won the race. Everything else was chev and toyota

[@ianlitchfield9273]

Does this vehicle still exist ? Where is it now ?

[@brob9995]

Very interesting, not much of a Rolls Royce in the end though

[@joslyrasitrasitrabeh7825]

Mitsubishi could match the roll Royce

[@jaiminsangar7531]

Clearly it wasn't rolls Royce, it just looked like one.

[@Jagermonsta]

where's the video on the awful looking 6x4?

[@emmajacobs5575]

If you’re interested in unlikely Rolls Royce rally cars, you should check out Bill Bengry and the Silver Shadow he drove in the 1970 London to Mexico World Cup Rally. (Motorsport Magazine’s online archive has an excellent article on it) That car was much, much closer to standard than this “Corniche”

[@andysaunders3708]

Eating oysters in the desert. Good way to get dysentery.

[@lordnat1968]

This wasn’t a Rolls Royce anymore...

[@phantom7694]

Unbelievable........ Mighty RR 💚❤️⚡

[@myMotoring]

maybe 3% RR

[@colinhoward74]

Proberably the best marketing done for Rolls Royce even though they did not authourise it ok expact it , I bet a lot of clients in the early 1980s bought a Roller because of the romantic myth behind the car , I bet the sales staff did nothing to stop the romantic interlude between paper and pen to sign the build contract . That said , that era of Rolls , Silver Shadow and Silver Spirit were pretty rugged on unpaved surfaces any way because they were built as tough cars that first , second and third owners would proberably abuse them in mechanical ways , believing the myth that Rolls's never needed servicing ect .

[@seanm8030]

Why would an RR automobile participating in a rally be surprising? It is "The Best Car in the World."

[@dalemcspadden943]

In the end it wasn't really a rolls Royce's was it 🤔

[@derekstocker6661]

Rolls-Royce is actually not British any more, its German owned. Interesting video.

[@BartBe]

Bizarly enoug... "corniche" is also the name for a flat roof's gutter...

[@bedstuyrover]

...but it was not a Rolls Royce!

[@tomsanders9106]

Let’s be fair it wasn’t really a Roll Royce. Still cool though.

[@Dark_Ages_Crusader]

Rolls Royce did make fighter and bomber engines too after all so rally’s no worries!

[@WhuDhat]

reds title; deciphers that took part in does not equal won watches video to see how bad it did

[@jean-pierredeclemy7032]

But a real Rolls Royce took part in the Mexico Rally about ten years earlier.

[@mike7297]

thanks for the video!