The Rolls-Royce Phantom is now a 100-year-old automotive. As a century-old piece of engineering and human historical past, the automotive has had its share of fascinating house owners. From 50 Cent to Elton John, a run of well-known people have all owned one. So, for the automotive’s one hundredth birthday, Rolls-Royce set about recreating one of many extra well-known bits of lore surrounding the automotive.
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Did Keith Moon Actually Dunk A Phantom?
If the pictures hadn’t given it away, Rolls-Royce did pull it off. Extra on that in a second. First, it is price addressing a easy undeniable fact that even Rolls acknowledges: nobody was ever in a position to determine if Moon, drummer for The Who, ever took one for a swim, however the man himself says he by no means did. Moon owned one, however because the story (very a lot allegedly) goes, the all of the sudden amphibious luxurious automotive was a Lincoln Continental. In a ’76 interview with Rolling Stone, Moon stated his try to flee a party-crashing sheriff at a Vacation Inn led to a a submerged Lincoln.
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“I ran out, jumped into the primary automotive I got here to, which was a model new Lincoln Continental. It was parked on a slight hill and once I took the handbrake off, it began to roll and it smashed straight via this pool encompass [fence] and the entire Lincoln Continental went into the ‘Oliday Inn swimming pool, with me in it.”
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Rolls did it a bit in another way, taking the retired physique of a prototype destined for recycling and gently putting it on stilts within the pool of the Tinside Lido in Plymouth, England for some pictures.
Generally A PR Stunt Is Simply… A Stunt
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All of it feels somewhat like Alex Krokus’ “Lifetime of a Meme” comedian. Keith Moon allegedly did the entire pool factor first, and even when he did, it was most likely a Lincoln, and nobody ever corroborated the story. The entire bit was solely just a bit humorous when High Gear did it, and even that was so way back it is now discovered on a YouTube channel referred to as High Gear Traditional.
The multi-billion-dollar firm? Sort of beating a useless horse that is already been dug up, overwhelmed, and buried a number of instances over. Rolls might have sacrificed an actual Phantom to no matter Poseidon of the Pool there could also be and actually, actually sunk the factor. Sticking it on stilts for a photograph op simply does not really feel very honest, or very “Rock n’ Roll.”
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