Fabulous Mercedes Benz 220S Cabriolet.
























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BethesdaHi Can we update the customer dealer page with this The Real Car Company Ltd The Real Car Company was established in 1987 by Ray Arnold & Ian Johnstone to specialise in the sale of early Rolls-Royce and Bentley. It was a hobby that 'Got out of hand'. Our interest in cars of the type that we now sell goes back to our childhoods, and ownership back to the 1970s. Gradually more cars started passing through our hands, and by 1986 we had decided to make a full-time occupation of buying and selling the cars that we love. We started with a single car (all we could afford) which we sold quickly, and before we knew it we had 4 or 5 on our hands! This was alongside another business (exhaust systems) that we were involved in at the time. In the spring of 1988 we gave up the other business, rented part of the premises that we still operate from now, and went full time. We started well in the boom years of the late eighties, which set us up well enough for us to ride the storm of recession in the years that followed. As the years went on the number of cars going through our hands increased gradually, we built up a workforce, and we now carry a stock of around 30 to 40 vehicles with nine of us here. Over the years we have gratefully received awards from the motoring press. We are always interested in acquiring cars of the type that we sell so if you know of a Rolls-Royce or Bentley for sale, anywhere in the World, particularly an early model, please let us know
1 Previous Owner, Believed to be 1 of just 20 built in RHD, with less than half of those remaining. The car is in gorgeous condition, having been subjected to a major body restoration a few years ago to a very high standard, as well as more restoration work, totalling some £175,000 in all! This is all documented with invoices. Also in the file of accompanying paperwork are an owner's manual as well as an instruction manual in a Mercedes pouch. There is an original buff logbook, a continuation green logbook, photos of the restoration and various other documents. The paintwork is like glass and just fabulous! Chrome work is superb, and the whole car is beautiful, correct, and retaining original, mellowed red leather interior. The underside is as impressive as the rest of the car. Runs nicely and drives delightfully. Offered prepared, serviced & newly MoT tested. Chassis No. R180030 7506788. Reg No. LRS 26. Snippets: Woollen Mills to TetrapakDr Ian M. Munro took delivery of the Mercedes at his home in Roehampton. Little is known of Dr Munro but his wife Annie Violete Logie Watson was the daughter of Sir Logie Piri Watson, the industrialist. Annie was born in Kanpur, Bengal as her parents were stationed there at the time. Sir Logie started his working life in the Jute Mills in Aberdeen & before he relocated to India where he became a director of the Cawnpore Woollen Mills making fabric for uniforms. Sir Logie received his knighthood for services to the war effort and sadly died in 1933 some five years prior to the wedding of his daughter to Ian Munro. When Lady Watson died in 1952 she left a large estate both in the UK and in India with her daughter Annie being the sole heiress to a considerable fortune. Annie Munro obviously enjoyed jewellery as in 1958 their home in Roehampton was broken into with some £3,000 worth of gems & jewellery being stolen, there is no record of the gems being recovered. Later owners of the Mercedes 220S included Gordon Young of Aberdeen (retired farmer), Michael Grubb of Aberdour (hotelier), Jorn Anders Rausing (grandson of Tetrapak founder), Pierre Georges Mirabaud of Geneva (private Banker) and Hans Durr Auster of Bulle (entrepreneur & collector of Citroen Traction cars).