{"id":2979,"date":"2012-12-12T15:25:24","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T15:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delightfull.eu\/blog\/?p=2979"},"modified":"2012-12-12T15:34:46","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T15:34:46","slug":"rolls-royce-phantom-cabriolet-the-perfect-vintage-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/2012\/12\/12\/rolls-royce-phantom-cabriolet-the-perfect-vintage-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolls-Royce Phantom III Cabriolet: the perfect vintage gift"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/delightfull.eu\/blog\/2012\/12\/rolls-royce-phantom-cabriolet-the-perfect-vintage-gift\/rr\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2980\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2980\" title=\"rolls royce vintage gift\" src=\"http:\/\/delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rr.jpg\" alt=\"rolls royce vintage gift\" width=\"670\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rr.jpg 670w, https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rr-635x400.jpg 635w, https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rr-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dear Santa: this ultra glamorous\u00a01939 Rolls-Royce Phantom III Cabriolet\u00a0is on the top of our Christmas wish list. It\u2019s impossible to not be rendered to its\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 24px;\">sexy,       sleek lines achieved by<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/span>Henri Labourdette,     who designed this object of fantasy in France right before the war. \u00a0Surely sitting in one of these will beckon us back to the days of Art Deco.<\/p>\n<p>The 1939\/47 Rolls-Royce Phantom III \u201cVutotal\u201d Cabriolet by Labourdette is now in the John Rich Museum collection, started off as a standard Phantom III designed by Henry Royce. It was re-envisioned by coachbuilder Hooper and Co. in 1938 with a Sedanca de Ville body style, then showed off in Europe before being tweaked for the U.S. market.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/delightfull.eu\/blog\/2012\/12\/rolls-royce-phantom-cabriolet-the-perfect-vintage-gift\/rr2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2981\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2981\" title=\"rolls royce vintage\" src=\"http:\/\/delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rr2.jpg\" alt=\"rolls royce vintage\" width=\"670\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rr2.jpg 670w, https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rr2-527x400.jpg 527w, https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rr2-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rr2-658x500.jpg 658w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/delightfull.eu\/blog\/2012\/12\/rolls-royce-phantom-cabriolet-the-perfect-vintage-gift\/rr3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2982\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2982\" title=\"rolls royce vintage\" src=\"http:\/\/delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rr3.jpg\" alt=\"rolls royce vintage\" width=\"670\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rr3.jpg 670w, https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rr3-527x400.jpg 527w, https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rr3-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rr3-658x500.jpg 658w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/delightfull.eu\/blog\/2012\/12\/rolls-royce-phantom-cabriolet-the-perfect-vintage-gift\/r4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2983\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2983\" title=\"rolls royce\" src=\"http:\/\/delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/r4.jpg\" alt=\"rolls royce\" width=\"670\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/r4.jpg 670w, https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/r4-527x400.jpg 527w, https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/r4-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/r4-658x500.jpg 658w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/delightfull.eu\/blog\/2012\/12\/rolls-royce-phantom-cabriolet-the-perfect-vintage-gift\/r5\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2984\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2984\" title=\"rolls royce\" src=\"http:\/\/delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/r5.jpg\" alt=\"rolls royce\" width=\"670\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/r5.jpg 670w, https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/r5-532x400.jpg 532w, https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/r5-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/r5-665x500.jpg 665w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Dear Santa: this ultra glamorous\u00a01939 Rolls-Royce Phantom III Cabriolet\u00a0is on the top of our Christmas wish list. It\u2019s impossible to not be rendered to its\u00a0sexy, sleek lines achieved by\u00a0Henri Labourdette, who designed this object of fantasy in France right before the war. \u00a0Surely sitting in one of these will beckon us back to the days of Art Deco. The 1939\/47 Rolls-Royce Phantom III \u201cVutotal\u201d Cabriolet by Labourdette is now in the John Rich Museum collection, started off as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":2987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[658],"tags":[237,735,734,733,736],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}