Bespoke Rolls-Royce Spectre And Ghost Head To Salon Prive

Rolls-Royce has revealed its two bespoke exhibitor cars for this year's Salon Prive, taking place at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England, from August 30.

The first is the Rolls-Royce Spectre, which has been finished in a color called Wittering Blue. This is contrasted by a Mandarin Coachline, while the cabin is presented in Charles Blue with Mandarin accents for the piping on the seats and for the embroidered headrests. In addition to this, another example of the Spectre will be on display with Chartreuse and Black Diamond bodywork and a Chartreuse, Grace White, and Peony Pink cabin. This will join the daily parade around the palace grounds.

The second model on display is based on the Rolls-Royce Ghost, appearing with a Tucana Purple body meant to call to mind the Southern night sky surrounding the Tucana constellation. This car's Coachline is a vibrant Lime Green, and this has been applied to the wheel center caps, too, with a fine pinstripe accent. The tires also get an unusual stripe.

Inside, Lime Green enlivens the cabin's seat piping, steering wheel, headrest embroidery, and armrests. A second Ghost will also join the daily parade, but with no images or details provided, it's probably not finished in a particularly interesting specification.

Both of these builds are beautiful, but they are somewhat plain and restrained compared with what the automaker's Coachbuild division can pull off.

At the recent Monterey Car Week extravaganza, the British automaker revealed La Rose Noire as the first of four Droptail builds that took over four and a half rotations around the sun to complete. The second, called Amethyst, took just as long and is just as intricate.

Each car has bespoke bodywork and a custom timepiece, and if reports are to be believed, each cost in the region of $30 million. The Spectre and the Ghost are fantastic, but alongside Droptail creations, they're for peasants.