In principle the customer of Rolls-Royce could order his Silver Shadow, T, Camargue or Corniche in every colour he/she wanted. Many customers used this option and ordered a colour that was very special for them. For a deviating colour the company in 1966 asked an extra cost of $ 90 (US) and for interior colours $ 110. In 1975 this extra cost was £ 111.45 (UK). Other than standard colours furtheron increased the production time with 4 weeks. This extra production time in 1971 had become even 12 weeks.
On this page some colours are shown that I have seen in my years of collection. In many cases it deals with unique colours.
In order to have a look at the car in the mentioned colour just click on the name of the colour or on the small picture.
Colour (alphabetical) |
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Further information |
Alpine grey |
No example available |
I have registered this colour 5 times between SRH8477 (1970) and SRH18240 (1974). |
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Registered at the 1974 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow SRH18382. |
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Registered at the 1968 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow SRH4088. |
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This colour often occurs as a colour of the everflex or the interior. Sometimes the owner calls his car beige whereas he means another colour. I'm not sure whether this colour has been an official Rolls-Royce exterior colour. |
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Registered amongst others on the 1980 Rolls-Royce Corniche DRK50242. This probably corresponds with the colour Onyx. |
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Six times registered, three times of them on a Bentley. |
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Registered at the 1981 Bentley Corniche CRH50389. |
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Registered at a Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow MPW 2-doors saloon. |
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Registered at a 1989 Bentley Continental. |
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Registered at the 1979 Bentley T2 SBK38544. |
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Registered at the 1978 Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith II LRG32706. |
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Three times registered in the sixties, for instance on this 1969 Silver Shadow Long wheelbase LRX7216. The colours of the registered cars differ rather much. |
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Three times registered, in 1970, 1995 and on this 1984 Rolls-Royce Corniche convertible ECX07944. |
Mink |
No example available |
13 times registered between 1968 and 1988. Probably in all cases it deals with Silver mink. |
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Registered at the 1978 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow II SRG33239. |
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Registered at the 1977 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow II SRF30074. |
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This is the colour of my own 1969 Silver Shadow SRH6839. Two times more registered, both cars before 1970. |
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From 1970 until the end of the Silver Shadow. |
Pink |
No example available |
Registered at the 1975 Silver Shadow SRH20383 and the 1978 Silver Shadow II SRH32593. |
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Three times registered, in 1976 and later. |
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Registered at the 1994 Rolls-Royce Corniche IV RCX50001. |
Redwood |
No example available |
Dark red-purple colour, also known as "deep burgundy". Two times registered. |
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Registered at the 1976 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow Long wheelbase LRE24161. |
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Registered at the Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow Long wheelbase LRE23959. |
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Two times registered, both times in a two-tone colourscheme. |
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Registered at the 1975 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow SRD21197. |
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Registered at the 1979 Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith II LRK35652. |
In the next table the colours are mentioned that do occur in the partlist but that I never have detected on Silver Shadow models.
The M150 and M151 codes are from ICI, the LB code is from Mason.
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