Finally. A Rolls-Royce with a trailer for machine gun

Posted on 29-09-2013 at 11:06 am by ricardo – 17 Comments”

Ah, a car from simpler times. When one does not tegensputterde when you have an automatic rifle on a trailer behind you luxeslee unbuttoned to agree on Bengal tigers to hunt.

This weekend in Las Vegas in a Rolls-Royce Torpedo Sports Tourer from 1925 auctioned. A bolide from the long history of modified Rollers for the Indian maharajas. These rulers over feudal kingdoms were namely with regularity, a tailor-made car fitting, such as the Rolls-Royce Star of India, the Swan Car Louwman, or Jarvis Torpedo.

It is therefore not really surprising that Umed Singh II, the maharaja of Kotah from 1889 to 1940, a car arranged that jack was on his hobbies. He had a trailer with a .45 caliber machine gun, with the hand aangeslingerd had to be. Furthermore, the ‘Tiger Car’ with a double-barreled handgeweer in a holder and an “elephant gun” at the rear bumper. Yep, this is a good candidate to many verkeersruzie without problems to settle. But in the time of Umed Singh II, he was merely using for the tijgerjacht on his private estate with friendly rich people.

Under the hood of this Tiger Car, which is based on a Phantom I, is a six-cylinder in-line engine with 8 liter capacity. The expected yield is, according to the auction house Barrett-Jackson around 450,000 dollars.

Gallery: Rolls-Royce Tiger Car

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