{"id":2399,"date":"2022-09-09T15:34:40","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T07:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/?p=2399"},"modified":"2022-09-09T15:34:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T07:34:40","slug":"the-great-gatsbys-1928-rolls-royce-looks-like-a-million-bucks-and-is-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/?p=2399","title":{"rendered":"The Great Gatsby&#8217;s 1928 Rolls-Royce looks like a million bucks and is for sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> close     <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/896\/500\/gatsby-1.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"Is &quot;The Great Gatsby&quot; really that great?\" width=\"896\" height=\"500\" data-v-a7f268cc> Video <\/p>\n<h4 class=\"title\" data-v-a7f268cc>Is &quot;The Great Gatsby&quot; really that great?<\/h4>\n<p data-v-a7f268cc>Matt Atchity of Rotten Tomatoes on whether the new Leonardo DiCaprio film is more style than substance<\/p>\n<p>NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Here is a way to relive the Roaring Twenties in the 2020s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The iconic 1928 Rolls-Royce featured in the 1974 movie adaptation of &#8220;The Great Gatsby&#8221; is being auctioned in September.<\/p>\n<p>The Phantom I Ascot Dual Cowl Sport Phaeton was owned by the character Jay Gatsby, played by Robert Redford, in the 1974 film.<\/p>\n<p>The car is believed to be the only one of its kind built with a dual cowl phaeton body, which includes separate front and rear compartments, each with their own windshield.<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK CITY&#8217;S CHRYSLER IMPERIAL PARADE CAR HAS BEEN CARRYING AMERICA&#8217;S HEROES FOR 70 YEARS<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/640\/320\/gatsby-1.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"Robert Redford played Jay Gatsby in the 1974 film.\"> <\/p>\n<p>\n      Robert Redford played Jay Gatsby in the 1974 film.<br \/>\n      (Paramount\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>It was chosen for the production because Gatsby owned a Rolls-Royce in the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel the film was based on, and was repainted yellow and reupholstered with green leather to match the colors described in the book.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/640\/320\/gatsby-4.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"The Rolls-Royce was repainted to match one described in the novel.\"> <\/p>\n<p>\n      The Rolls-Royce was repainted to match one described in the novel.<br \/>\n      (Worldwide Auctioneers)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hat-boxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of wind-shields that mirrored a dozen suns. Sitting down behind many layers of glass in a sort of green leather conservatory, we started to town,&#8221; narrator Nick Carraway said.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/640\/320\/g4.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"The car features creamy yellow paint and green leather upholstery.\"> <\/p>\n<p>\n      The car features creamy yellow paint and green leather upholstery.<br \/>\n      (Worldwide Auctioneers)<\/p>\n<p>APOLLO ASTRONAUT AL WORDEN&#8217;S 1971 CHEVROLET CORVETTE REDISCOVERED AND READY FOR RESTORATION<\/p>\n<p>The car was last auctioned in 2009 for $238,000, according to Hagerty, but it has since received an extensive restoration that took eight years to complete at a cost of $800,000.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/640\/320\/gatsby-3.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"The car is powered by a 7,688 cc, straight-six-cylinder engine.\"> <\/p>\n<p>\n      The car is powered by a 7,688 cc, straight-six-cylinder engine.<br \/>\n      (Worldwide Auctioneers)<\/p>\n<p>Its body was originally installed onto a different Rolls-Royce chassis, but in 1945 was swapped onto the current one in 1945, which has been driven over 70,000 miles.<\/p>\n<p>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/p>\n<p>Online bids are being accepted ahead of the Worldwide Auctioneers Auburn, Indiana, event on September 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>close Video Is &quot;The Great Gatsby&quot; really that great? 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