Mr Swift Dies at 102. Owned Same Car for 82 Years.

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Mr. Allen Swift ( Springfield , MA.) received this 1928 Rolls-Royce Picadilly P1 Roadster
from his father, brand new - as a graduation gift in 1928.
He drove it up until his death last year.....at the age of 102 !!!
He was the oldest living owner of a car from new. Just thought you'd like to see it.
He donated it to a Springfield museum after his death. It has 170,000 miles on it, still runs like a Swiss watch, dead silent at any speed and is in perfect cosmetic condition. (82 years)
That's approximately 2000 miles per year...

My comment..they don't make them like this anymore..

[TUF_302]

Here's to Mr Swift!!

[Stefan]

nice!

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That particular car set his folks back $10,900 (141,700 in 2010 dollars). It's hard difficult to speculate what it would sell for today at auction. A P1 was up for auction recently for $77K with no reserve. I don't know what it sold for. If I would venture to guess though, this car would fetch over $200k.

[LowEL2XR8]

Now if my EL XR8 lasted that or at least until I'm dead I'd be a happy man.

[woteva]

Awesome story but something tells me it didn't run silently!

Fuggin this is huuuuuge as well!

[XCwillo]

You can tell that it was made in the era of cars where designers thought
"Lets not worry about the size, we'll have flying cars in 20 odd years anyways"