The 1928 Rolls-Royce Phantom I in The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby describes Jay Gatsby’s car as having a “rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hat-boxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of wind-shields that mirrored a dozen suns.” Sitting down behind many layers of glass in a sort of green leather conservatory, we started to town.”
The book was written in 1925, but the 1974 Robert Redford film came close enough with a gorgeous Rolls-Royce Phantom I built in Springfield, Massachusetts, once a hub of Rolls-Royce manufacturing.
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