Jay Gatsby (played by 70s golden boy Robert Redford) seems to have it all in the Oscar-winning 1974 adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s literary masterpiece, The Great Gatsby. A gorgeous mansion estate on Long Island Sound, more money than he can spend and an immaculate wardrobe of clothes (designed for the movie by Ralph Lauren). Sure there are some sticky issues with long-time love Daisy (Mia Farrow), but did we mention he drives a 1929 Rolls-Royce Phantom I Ascot Tourer? For that we’d happily swap our favourite grandmother, let alone a few romantic niggles and soon some lucky person will get to ride behind the wheel of the classic auto when it goes under the hammer at Bonhams’s “Greenwich Concours d’Elegance” auction in Connecticut on 7th June.
The car features prominently in both the film and the book it’s based on, another reminder of the privileged and...
The car features prominently in both the film and the book it’s based on, another reminder of the privileged and...
- 5/29/2009
- Boxwish.com
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