Rolls-Royce No Chemicals, No Paint, No Harmful Glues

[MarkJ]

Wow, David. That chrome around the windshield looks outstanding. Great job masking the moldings first before coloring the moldings.

[Anglia105E]

1 hour ago, MarkJ said:

Wow, David. That chrome around the windshield looks outstanding. Great job masking the moldings first before coloring the moldings.

Thanks Mark, and as I half expected, there is some slight bleeding of the chrome along the top edge of the windshield. The masking tape has been removed at 24 hours, and I shall post some photos later today . . . The small amount of excess chrome should be cleaned up with a cocktail stick tip and polish (toothpaste).

David

[Anglia105E]

The interior dashboard mirror and stalk are being prepared to mount on top of the dashboard in the centre, where I have drilled a hole at an angle. This mirror needs to be chromed on both sides and it is made from a short length of metal paper clip which is glued to a small piece of sheet styrene . . .

Having removed the masking tape from around the windshield, I can see that there is some bleeding of the chrome along the top edge. I am in the process of tidying up this excess chrome, and the two front air intakes have been chromed. These are being improved also, where the liquid chrome has run into the intakes. At the rear of the driver's side door strips there was a small amount of excess chrome that I have removed successfully . . .

Some marks on the passenger side front wing were removed by further polishing, but in doing so, I caused the sill molding to fall off. This is now glued back in position . . . None of this is particularly interesting work, with most of it being cleaning up or correcting errors. Progress remains rather slow.

To the right of the steering column and behind the steering wheel, there needs to be a stalk and triangular shaped box for the automatic gear selector. This will be quite a tricky part to make, but I am hoping to find the best way of doing this ( see last photo of the following series ).

David

[MarkJ]

David, your sketch for the automatic shifter looks like it should work when you create the actual part from the sketch. All in all, the interior is coming along very nicely.

[Big Messer]

That auto shifter pattern is odd: no park? AFAIK Rolls-Royce used GM transmissions. Did they make changes to the shift pattern?

[Anglia105E]

2 hours ago, Big Messer said:

That auto shifter pattern is odd: no park? AFAIK Rolls-Royce used GM transmissions. Did they make changes to the shift pattern?

Jose . . . I noticed there was only N ,4 , 3 , 2 and R positions on the auto selector, so I did some research and it turns out there was no true ' Park ' on the GM Hydramatic auto transmission. Apparently, when the engine was stopped, the gear selector is moved to the  ' Reverse ' position which is effectively in ' Park '.

From 1953 to 1978, British automaker Rolls-Royce manufactured its own versions of the General Motors Hydra-Matic transmission for use in Rolls-Royce and Bentley luxury cars . . . I don't know if the GM auto transmissions manufactured in the United States had a ' Park ' position, but the auto boxes produced by Rolls-Royce were heavily modified versions of the US ones, under license.

My research information applies to the Silver Cloud I, II and III models specifically . . .

David

[Big Messer]

I had a 1958 Pontiac with auto trans and it had the old P N D L R pattern, just to add to the confusion... In 1959 (I think) changed to P R N D L . The old pattern was supposed to help move a car stuck in snow or mud by making shifting from R to L faster. Probably another instance or engineering misfiring...

[Anglia105E]

1 hour ago, Big Messer said:

I had a 1958 Pontiac with auto trans and it had the old P N D L R pattern, just to add to the confusion... In 1959 (I think) changed to P R N D L . The old pattern was supposed to help move a car stuck in snow or mud by making shifting from R to L faster. Probably another instance or engineering misfiring...

Back in 1977, I had a 1968 Pontiac Parisienne but I can't remember the auto shifter positions. The car was RHD from Canada and was a 4-door version.

David

[Big Messer]

22 minutes ago, Anglia105E said:

Back in 1977, I had a 1968 Pontiac Parisienne but I can't remember the auto shifter positions. The car was RHD from Canada and was a 4-door version.

David

Had to be either P R N D L or P R N D 2 1. And probably driving such a land yacht was quite the experience...

Edited 1 hour ago by Big Messer

[Anglia105E]

8 minutes ago, Big Messer said:

Had to be either P R N D L or P R N D 2 1. And probably driving such a land yacht was quite the experience...

Oh yes, I really enjoyed driving that car . . . Just under 18 feet in length ( 215.6 inches ). Trouble was, I only got 12 miles per gallon of petrol.

I think it might have been P R N D 2 1 . . . This was 49 years ago !

David

[Big Messer]

A friend of mine had a Pontiac Bonneville, roughly from the same era.He called it "The white aircraft carrier"...

[Anglia105E]

8 minutes ago, Big Messer said:

A friend of mine had a Pontiac Bonneville, roughly from the same era.He called it "The white aircraft carrier"...

The Bonneville and the Parisienne were true classics I think . . . Very much an " aircraft carrier " . . .

My Parisienne was registration number FCK 33 and finished in pale yellow, with a brown vinyl roof. 5.3 litre ( 323 cubic inches ) V8 engine.