I saw one of these yesterday in Los Angeles. Always an interesting Rolls-Royce model.

I have always admired Rolls Royce for fostering this design from concept to production. It was a risk, and in my opinion, a worthy and successful effort. The Camargue is simply beautiful, bereft of unnecessary ornamentation.

Remember their launch in 1975 and I still have never seen one

Lovely film - it looks as though the origination was pretty high quality and it would be great to see it remastered.

Stunning watching them build it. That wooden roof stretcher is amazing. Shame there’s almost no footage of Rolls Royce at all from the period before BMW ruined it all, this vid is all I’ve managed to find. At least there’s a few uploads of Aston Martin factory works tours up to the 90’s on KZread, nothing for RR, or any period coachbuilders either. Lost art by in large. Anyone know of any such footage, especially if it’s on KZread. Camargue isn’t to everyone’s taste but it’s one of the bravest designs ever, along with the Aston Martin Lagonda series 2/3/4 (series 1 was actually a previous and different car entirely). So sculptural. Never ever seen one though, have seen a a few Turbo R and maybe an SZ Rolls and Shadow at a few car shows. Carfection recently showcased quite a nice Camargue with beautiful olive colour leathers. I know it’s an Italian design but no Italians ever could have built it quite so well as RR did. I’ve seen some truly ghastly work in from the factory/coach works some of the most prestigious Italian marks and coachbuilders, they’re very lazy, carefree people I suppose ahah, everything always wobbly and misaligned, same with their interiors, glue everywhere and stuff. Thank God the work was done in Britain and not by Italians. I don’t think Italians even had wheels and slappers, just hammers.

In all my years, I've only ever seen one Camargue on public roads. It was a White one, on a R 1976 plate, coming towards me on the Heads of the Valleys road, above Merhyr Tydfil in South Wales. It was well over 35 yrs ago, but I can still remember it,. I had no idea at the time how rare a sight it would become, only 525 examples made.

@cinefilm2dvd1441

4 жыл бұрын

My father worked on Rolls Royce in Crewe and would occasionally manage to sneak me out a promotional booklet or other marketing items. These films I managed to pick up only recently. Thought i would get them shared!

@resemblesanacorn6561

4 жыл бұрын

I too, have only ever seen one. A dark green coloured one in the shropshire town of church stretton. It must of been about 35 to 40 years ago. Never seen one since.

@silhouetteman1

4 жыл бұрын

I also have only seen one, 2012 just outside Milton Keynes! Someone I know used to own one, she showed me a photo of her sitting in it.

@riseandshine75

2 жыл бұрын

Me too, seen only one. An olive green one on a very rural road near Dumfries in Scotland

@teymourbayat8266

4 ай бұрын

I've seen four back in the days, in Paris and South of France, Saudi plates most of them, a very ugly car, horrible stance, in fact people wouldn't take a second glance at them unless you saw them from the front and noticed the R-R grill and emblem. A Silver Shadow or Corniche would draw immediate attention and admiration. I think Pininfarina played a sick joke on the folks at Crewe, with that Fiat on steroids.

BACK WHEN ROLLS ROYCE OWNERSHIP MEANT SOMETHING.

Only people with style can appreciate this car

当時この車は世界で一番高価な車で有名でした。最高の材料、クラフトマンによる妥協しない作り。まさに世界で一番高価な車と言っても過言ではないと思います。現車があったら写真撮らせてもらいたいです。

Stunning

The Camargue is a marmite roller...... To me it's the most beautiful Rolls Royce ever.... If I was lucky enough to win the Lotto a well sorted Camargue would be the top of my automotive shopping list followed by a series 1 E TYPE 👍

Großartig ! Danke für das schöne Video über dieses einzigartige Automobil; welches für mich durch kein anderes geschlagen werden kann....

Lovely

Fantastic

Ma786sai Dua Magnificent out-of-this-world. Timeless eternal symmetry. No marque be it the most hallowed, might hold a candle to a Rolls-Royce. I own a 1982 Silver Shadow. These Crewe-built creations are a joy forever

There is a story that when the Camargue was in its early stages of development, Mr Farina , of Pinninfarina , visited the factory and they sat him in a prototype. They closed doors and windows , they one of the engineers who he got on with particularly well, threw a bucket of water over the car. This let dripping water over Mr Farina s’ lap on his best Amarni suit. The engineer said whilst you at some revisions , put some rain channels in the roof , “ This ain’t one of your bloody Ferraris ! “

When cars were cars , not plastic toys

@mscott3918

3 жыл бұрын

And when they were mechanical not electronic

It would have made a stunning convertible

@eldontyrell4361

2 жыл бұрын

There are a few convertibles actually I believe

Thank you so so much!

"The best car in the world" say the Commentator

@blxtothis

3 жыл бұрын

Listen again, the narrator originally said “… ONE OF THE best CARS in the world”. It was old Cliff who quoted his more definitive opinion when seeing the cars slightly later.

@chrisfi3d

3 жыл бұрын

If he did say that - then he’d been correct. It was the most expensive, four seat passenger vehicle money could buy

@mscott3918

3 жыл бұрын

@@chrisfi3d It was just under £50,000 I think.

Different times and the world was different back then - the internet came along and ruined everything.

I wished they produced a lot more

… and then came BMW and start to produce the RR for the rabble!

were only making plans, for nigel...

Nostalgia eh, Cliff Michelmore, he seemed to be on every TV show in the UK on a daily basis, wasn’t he in the original Top Gear? I seem to remember, at the time, that the Camargue replaced the Corniche as the most expensive car in the UK, possibly the world. Lot my eyes as a car nut, I felt it was clumsy and pug ugly, almost a parody of Lady Penelopes’s Pink Roller in the kids’ Show Thunderbirds.

Corniche looks better.

Weren't exactly made to last,still rusted away!

Begging for white wall tires....

@MJ-iv1es

5 ай бұрын

yuk!

この車に乗り、ダッシュボード内にニコンFを忍ばせたい。トーマスの如く。現在、3500万円で買えるらしいです。でも5.2メートル、1.9メートル、2.3トンは大きすぎる....。

When you think of all the beautiful 'British' coach built cars then they turn to the Italians and they come up with this.