1967 Rolls Royce Silver Shadow.. seat Recliners

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1967 Rolls Royce Silver Shadow.. seat Recliners

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Is it me.. or do these look exactly like the seat recliners in my 356 A Porsche ??
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Sure looks like that seat has done plenty of reclining in it's time. :P

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Could I put it in this?

The auction is ending today, I'm fighting it....
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#4 Post by Ashley James »

I ran a Shadow 2 many years ago and I’m still having nightmares. My financial situation will never recover. I think the seat recliners are larger than Porsche ones and, unusually for R-R generic.

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#5 Post by Wayne Arny »

Adam said: The auction is ending today, I'm fighting it....

Ok, Adam. There are others of us on the List that would LOVE to have this car!! Where did you see it advertised!? :)

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Wayne Arny wrote:Adam said: The auction is ending today, I'm fighting it....

Ok, Adam. There are others of us on the List that would LOVE to have this car!! Where did you see it advertised!? :)
It was on Bring a Trailer

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1979- ... er-shadow/

It sold for $11,000 it had a turbo and an 8 speed manual gearbox!

I closed my computer and put it in the bag so I wouldn't bid.
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The intercooler was sort of a tell for the turbo, but what's with the plumbing over both sides of the top?
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#8 Post by Wayne Arny »

It's a "CLASSIC?" And from my high school Latin (which taught me to go to the dictionary, which in this case is Google), the inscription on the pipe in the engine bay is, roughly, "Remember Death, Dude," or "Mortal deeds never deceive the gods, Dude!" Amazing! At least the back seat seems relatively untouched. And thank the gods, the seat belts are still installed!! :)

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My brother summed it up, he said that thing would be a lot of fun, until something broke.
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#10 Post by Jim Karaba »

Ron LaDow wrote:The intercooler was sort of a tell for the turbo, but what's with the plumbing over both sides of the top?
Probably has a rear mount radiator. That's all the rage with drifters now, much like the eternally mounted inter-cooler.

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#11 Post by Martin Benade »

That's a long time.
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#12 Post by Jim Clement »

now I see that MB also used the seat recliners..
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#13 Post by Edwin Ek »

Didn't Mercedes Benz and Porsche share carpeting material also?
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#14 Post by Ron LaDow »

Wife and I went to Europe several years back, SFO-LAX-Hamburg. You have to ride a bus from the LAX domestic to int'l; the driver's seat had a big "Recaro" nameplate on it. Well, why not? They do 'transport seating' and I'm sure RR and Benz figured they were about as good as you could get then.
So we get on a Lufthanza 7X7, upgrade to Bizz class from 'points'; yep the flat-recline, with vid, audio, light, sliding table 'seat'; "Recaro".
'Transport seating' indeed.
Edit; correction, as wife reminded me at dinner:"Recaro", not "Reutter".
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#15 Post by Ron LaDow »

Jim Karaba wrote:
Ron LaDow wrote:The intercooler was sort of a tell for the turbo, but what's with the plumbing over both sides of the top?
Probably has a rear mount radiator. That's all the rage with drifters now, much like the eternally mounted inter-cooler.
And I have to add, what a great idea! Put a water-cooled engine in front and put the radiator in BACK!
Seriously, is there a theoretic gain here somewhere?
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