For this car, Jin Muchen is nothing, although this car looks very valuable, but Capote said that if he wants, Jin Muchen will definitely not fight with him.

After all, he is not short of money now, but what he wants to know more is what this car is, after all, as a professional antique practitioner, for antique cars, even if you don't understand, at least you should know a little more.

What's more, almost everyone who plays with antiques will have a little bit of curiosity about the story behind the antique.

"If you want you, just take it, now tell me the origin of this car."

Jin Muchen took out a pack of cigarettes, lit one for himself, and asked Capote, who had a correct attitude at this time and began to explain to him.

"It's a Rolls-Royce, I think you should know it."

"Nonsense, I'm not blind......"

"Okay, okay, don't be angry, then let me tell you that this car is the ancestor of all Rolls-Royces now, do you know?"

"Huh? I really don't know. ”

Speaking of cars, Jin Muchen also likes it, but he has never been very cold to luxury brands like Rolls-Royce, because in his opinion, the car is a tool to serve people, and many people like to use cars to raise their face.

But even if he didn't know much about it, he had heard of the name of Rolls-Royce, not to mention that he had just met a tyrant Sultan some time ago. His Majesty the Sultan, alone has more than 400 Rolls-Royce, so this time. The logo of this luxury car, he is not uncommon, but he has never seen such an old one like the one in front of him.

Now when he heard Capote say that this car was actually the ancestor of Rolls-Royce, he couldn't help but be even more interested.

It was only at this time that Capote began to explain to Jin Muchen the origin of the car.

The birth of the Rolls-Royce luxury car. Mainly from two people, one of whom is Charles. Law, and the other was Frederick. Rice.

However, although they joined forces to create the luxury car brand that would later become widely known. But the origins of these two men are very different.

Rouse was born into a wealthy aristocracy in England, but unlike the aristocracy who only cared about the profits from their factories and the return of credit, this aristocrat was a bit of a fresh literary fan, and liked to try new things.

He was admitted to the University of Cambridge to study civil engineering. In that period. He became obsessed with the new car that was just being born at the time and became the first generation of racing drivers.

Rice, on the other hand, was born into a family of low-class London workshop owners, and lived in poverty as a child, but he was usually very fond of innovation.

Unlike Rouse's smooth sailing life, Rice's life can be said to be full of hardships, because of his limited family resources, he sold newspapers and worked as an apprentice in a railway company. But these hardships did not dampen his penchant for invention.

And when it comes to mechanical creation, Les does have an amazing talent.

At that time, automobiles were born in Germany. And it quickly became popular on the European continent, and after Rice first came into contact with this thing, he also became very interested in this new thing.

However, at that time, there was no factory in Britain that could produce cars, so Rice decided to build a British brand car himself.

In 1904, at the age of 40, Rice designed and built a two-cylinder car, which was a masterpiece at the time, with an innovative use of motor starting instead of a traditional crank handle, and the car ran very smoothly with a low failure rate.

It just so happened that one of Rice's business partners, Henry. Edmonds, a member of the Royal Automobile Association, told Rouse, who was also a member of the association, about it, but unexpectedly it made Rouse very interested.

Rouse had always had a wish: to make a homegrown British car that could rival the quality of foreign cars, and to be able to name the car after himself.

As an engineer, Les's ambition coincides with that of Rolls: to set up someone who can build the best quality cars and sell them, regardless of the cost.

It is this common ambition that eventually led to the acquaintance of the two across the door.

On May 4, 1904, in Henry. Edmonds was introduced by the two to meet at the Mirande Hotel in Manchester, where they hit it off.

Together, they envisioned the future of the car and sketched a sketch of a car on a napkin, which was the first drawing of the world-famous Rolls-Royce car.

After the meeting, the two decided to form Rolls-Royce Motor Cars together, with Rice in charge of design and production, and Rolls in charge of sales, and the two signed a cooperation agreement.

In 1904, Rolls-Royce produced the first 10-horsepower model, which was branded "Rolls-Royce", thus becoming the first Rolls-Royce car. The first batch of 10 cars was produced, and they took part in the motor exhibition held in Paris that year and became famous in one fell swoop.

In the face of a large number of orders, the company still insisted on hand-made manufacturing, which took about 25 workers and eight months to complete the construction of a car at that time, and these man-hours allowed the car to be meticulously crafted from the exterior to the interior, and since then, hand-made manufacturing has become a constant tradition at Rolls-Royce.

In March 1906, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars was officially incorporated, and Rolls-Royce produced a 4-cylinder 20-horsepower sedan, which won the "Boys-Royce Travelers' Cup" car competition in Britain that year.

The competition had a great impact on British high society, when the Queen of England personally attended the award ceremony and presented the medals herself, with this victory, Rolls-Royce began to win the favor of the British aristocracy and even the royal family.

With this good momentum, the following year, Rolls-Royce launched the world-shocking model "Silver Wraith", which can definitely be said to be as the name suggests.

The "Silver Ghost" has an aluminized body, and the lights, horns and other parts are silver-plated, and the whole car shimmers with silver except for the tires and leather seats.

The car is equipped with a 7-liter inline 6-cylinder engine, a four-seater foldable convertible, and a top speed of 85 kilometers per hour.

In addition to the luxurious exterior and interior, the car boasts reliability that greatly exceeds that of its contemporaries.

In May 1907, the car completed 2,000 miles of hilly road trials from London to Edinburgh in the highest gear, and another 15,000 miles of fatigue testing in the same year, which was unique at the time, made history, and made the car and the Rolls-Royce brand famous.

In addition to gaining widespread fame, another success of the "Silver Ghost" was the success of Rolls-Royce into the British upper class.

In those years, the conservative British aristocracy still preferred horse-drawn carriages and refused to use them, and the appearance of the "Silver Ghost" completely changed their views, and finally the Queen of England announced that the general travel would not be in a horse-drawn carriage but in a "Silver Ghost" car, which made Rolls-Royce wear the garb of nobility from then on.

And it is with the appearance of the "Silver Ghost" that Rolls-Royce has created a new series in the car category - luxury sedans.

Listening to Capote's eloquent words, and looking at the sedan in front of him with silver light all over his body, Jin Muchen finally understood why Capote said that this car was the ancestor of Rolls-Royce.

Feelings: This should be the "Silver Ghost" sedan he has been mentioning before!

After listening to Capote's explanation, after taking a closer look at this car, it seems that it is indeed the case, the body uses a lot of chrome decoration, and in some places, it looks like it is indeed silver-plated, no wonder it looks like there is a feeling of Bling-Bling silver.

Just this shape, as well as such luxurious accessories, in the eyes of the year, was indeed tall enough.

And this silver ghost is to make Rolls-Royce completely famous in the automotive industry, although before this, Rolls-Royce also had other styles of models, but I'm afraid there is no one, can make them so famous, and successful.

After all, it was the beginning of this silver ghost that the Rolls-Royce brand began to be gradually accepted by the British aristocracy and even the rich people all over the world, including the family known as the richest in the world, who took the lead in using Rolls-Royce's first car, which is exactly this one, so it is no wonder that this car is so famous.

"If this is the silver ghost you said, it must be expensive, right?"

Jin Muchen touched his chin and asked Capote tentatively, after all, he didn't know much about antique cars, and he was really confused about how to price this thing.

Hearing his rookie question, Capote glanced at him: "Hmph, sure enough, it's a mountain cannon, this car is now in the world, there are no more than five, of which four are in the United Kingdom, two belong to the royal family, one is in Rolls-Royce's own museum, and one is in the home of a wealthy man, only this one has been lost overseas, so it is not an exaggeration to say that this thing is a national treasure of the United Kingdom." A few years ago, this car was photographed at Sotheby's, and if I remember correctly, it seems to have sold a 470 that year. The high price of 550,000 pounds, now, if you talk about the price, it will only be higher than then......"

Hearing Capote's offer, Jin Muchen was so frightened that he stuck out his tongue, Nima's, a car is more than 4 million pounds, which is more than 40 million yuan...... (To be continued......)