This car is the original Rolls Royce Silver Ghost, designed and built by Henry Royce in 1906, and to date has completed well over 400.000 miles and is still in excellent running order. In May 1907 this car was driven from London to Scotland, a distance of over 400 miles, entirely in top gear. Shortly afterwards, under R.A.C., supervision it covered non-stop a total distance of 14.371 miles. The 'Autocar' reviewing it said 'There is no realisation of driving propulsion; the feeleing as the passenger sits, either at the front or the back of the vehicle, is one of being wafted through the landscape'.

The (Y15-1) 1907 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost was made from 1960 to 1969 and is a very commonly seen MOY. It was the first of the Models of Yesteryear to fit the now familiar pattern of cars bigger than 1:50 scale with moulded plastic seats and standardised wheels & tyres. There are millions of these models out there.

Variations/Rarities: Always painted metallic green but the shades used can vary between being almost silver right across to mid green.
It had gold trim to the radiator grille shell and the sidelights. The earliest version also had red trim to the tail light and silver to the rear number plate although it is not unusual to find models without any gold trim at all.
The headlights and front number plate were a seperately cast fitting which was usually silver plated but brass plated headlights are known.
The wheels can be found in three distinct versions, The first type were a split rim spoked design with a rim with bolt heads running around the inside. This type can be found with a silver or brass finish.
Next came a regular spoked design with a brass finish. The third version had a type 1 design that did not have bolt heads cast in which also had a brass finish.
The earliest versions used grey plastic tyres and all later issues had black plastic tyres. The grey tyres and early black tyres had a knobbly tread pattern with the later black tyres having a much finer tread.
The seats were usually black plastic but one run was issued with green plastic seats.
There was only one casting modification which was to the spare tyre carrier which added a ring around the inside face but the baseplate was modified at least four times which were most likely adaptations so the model could be used in the giftware range.

The only versions which get any sort of premium are the very early ones with the rear light picked out in red and the rear number plate in silver. These cars will have grey tyres, and a version with green seats. These two aside, values are pretty low for 50 year old boxed models.

Scale: 1:52

Glossy light green body, grey knobbly tyres

Glossy light green body, black tyres

Red rear light and silver numberplate

There are at least 5 different baseplates (Updated baseplates)

The spare tyre carrier