Rolls-Royce 1925 Phantom I Round Door
Title
Rolls-Royce 1925 Phantom I Round Door
Creator
Coverage
location unknown
Date
1989
Description
From the Peterson Museum: The exotic “Round Door” Rolls-Royce was constructed in 1925 with a Hooper Cabriolet body for its first owner, a Mrs. Hugh Dillman of Detroit. It appears never to have left England and was re-sold when still virtually new to the Raja of Nanpara. In about 1934 a subsequent owner sent the car to Jonckheere of Belgium to be fitted with fashionably aerodynamic coachwork complete with twin sunroofs, round doors, a large fin, and a sloping radiator shell. Once thought to have been owned by the Duke of Windsor, the concours-winning car then passed through the hands of several other owners before being discovered in New Jersey in the early-1950s in near derelict condition. Max Obie later acquired the unusual Rolls-Royce, had it painted gold, and charged curious individuals one dollar to enter a special enclosure to look at the car. The Phantom I then spent time on the East Coast of the United States and in Japan before coming into the possession of the Petersen Automotive Museum in the spring of 2001.
Publisher
America's Packard Museum
Source
Automobile Quarterly Collection
Rights
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Identifier
AQ-11-1-Rolls-Royce 1925 Phantom I Round Door-
Relation
Petersen Automotive Museum, 1925 Rolls-Royce Phantom I.
Original Format
Photographic Negatives
Physical Dimensions
4x5" negatives
URL
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622f97fa2002f43b3469b506/1720476065275-EBF1M9PLMDEWX93M74GX/Rolls-Royce+1925+Phantom+I+Round+Door.jpg?format=300w
Collection
Citation
Roy D. Query, Photographer
, “Rolls-Royce 1925 Phantom I Round Door,” America's Packard Museum, accessed April 18, 2026, https://americaspackardmuseum.omeka.net/items/show/3223.