For Sale – one owner for 82 years!

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Allen Swift (1908 – 2010) drove the same car for 82 years. The car was a Rolls-Royce Piccadilly-P1 Roadster he had received new as a graduation gift from his father in 1928. To save you getting the calculator out, he drove the car until he died aged 102 years!

One owner 1928 Rolls-Royce.
One owner 1928 Rolls-Royce.

He was the oldest living owner of a car that was purchased new, and by the time of his death, the car (and Mr. Swift) had covered 1,721,998 kilometers.

This would have been one of the Springfield Rolls-Royces, manufactured up until 1932.

After his death, the car was donated to a Springfield museum.