World's oldest Rolls-Royce to be sold at Bonhams auction
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We already told you that Bonhams and Butterfields will be auctioning off what is thought to be the world's oldest Cadillac, built in 1903, at its Quail Lodge event this Friday in Carmel Valley, California. Now the auction company has announced that the world's oldest existing Rolls-Royce will be present as well.
The 10-horsepower 1904 Rolls-Royce seats two people and was built the very same year the U.K.-based luxury automaker was founded. This particular car was shown at the 1904 Paris Auto Salon and at the London Olympia Show early the following year. Subsequently the Rolls passed through three different owners in its 103-year lifetime, the most recent of which has owned the car for 30 years. It was restored once in the 1950s.
Though the Rolls will not cross the block at the Monterey event -- it is on preview for potential buyers at this December's auction in England -- it is a unique opportunity to view the oldest remaining vehicles from two iconic luxury automakers, built just one year apart. The Rolls-Royce is expected to sell in the $2 million range.
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