agbarisocket:
OHANAEZE IGWE.has never and he can never see this kind of car in his villagers..local man

naptu2:
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1) Queen Elizabeth's Rolls Royce in Lagos.

2) Queen Elizabeth's Rolls Royce in Northern Nigeria (you can see that it's a different car). This is the Emir of Kano's Rolls Royce.

3) The Rolls Royce in the Emir of Kano's fleet (he has a lot).


This Rolls Royce was taken to the UK for restoration by a famous Rolls Royce restorer in 2009. There are a lot of Rolls Royces in the Emir's palace, but this is their most precious possession because

(1) There's only one of it in the world (it was designed by eccentric billionaire Nubar Gulbenkian).

2) It was one of the last things that Emir Usman Nagogo bought before he died (he died before he could use it).

3) It conveyed the Queen in 1956.

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My oga, thanks for your input... I always look forward to reading your well research and robust input.

Meanwhile, pls do you have images of the Nigeria's Presidential Fleet? I saw a thread you did some years back but I can't get them again... Pls, if you have them, biko PM me

Thanks

naptu2:


Ok. I'll find a way to get them to you.

naptu2:
Nubar Gulbenkian's Rolls Royce

naptu2:


The Queen in Lagos. You can see that this is a different Rolls Royce (the Royal Rolls Royce).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pC_aKoUias

Ishilove:

Who the f**k is Nuben Gukbemkiar

naptu2:


A crazy billionaire.

His father made billions from the oil industry (Nuba also made his own money from the oil industry, apart from the money he inherited from his father).


He worked in his father's company when he was younger and developed the habit of ordering expensive lunch and charging his father's company for it. His father found out and was angry and scolded/punished him for it. In reply he sued his father for $10 million. It cost both of them around $60,000 to pursue the case in court (his father eventually paid the costs). Nuba said that it was probably the most expensive chicken lunch in the world.

He undertook spying missions for Britain during World War 2 (he did it because he was bored).

He absolutely loved Rolls Royces and he designed several unusually shaped Rolls Royces that were built for him. The Rolls Royce company did not like a lot of his designs, but they couldn't do anything about it.

Gulbenkian once said that one of the advantages of his cars is that they are so odd that people always remember them and they always stand out. So when he comes out of an event, people are already telling him where his car is and he doesn't have to look for it.


He designed this car and sold it to the Emir of Kano shortly after it was delivered to him


Below: Nubar Gulbenkian

Ishilove:

There's no picture attached, honey.

Crazy dude he was. Crazy, but creative.

naptu2:


Below: Nubar Gulbenkian

senatepresido:
Northerners spending our wealth anyhow

rummmy:
i thought your Muhammad used camel and anything western is Haram? Hypocrites

johnie:


Picture 4:

The practice of leg-bending by women taking photographs did not start recently, contrary to what some think.

Ishilove:

This is not leg bending. This is k-legging

naptu2:


I had problems attaching the pictures. Check the post again, they are there now.

naptu2:


I forgot to include one of the crazy things that he said.

Look at the car in the 3rd picture above. It looks like an old coach, right? The passenger compartment is covered, while the driver's compartment is out in the open.

Gulbenkian said that he designed it that way because he never knows if he is dry except when he is looking at somebody that is wet. (So he designed it that way so that the driver will be wet and then he'll know that he is dry).

Dozie32:
Still managing my papa inherited 1982 bluebird.

agbarisocket:
OHANAEZE IGWE.has never and he can never see this kind of car in his villagers..local man

Ishilove:

This is not leg bending. This is k-legging

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Talk about vintage cars, cars that buy some luxury cars then you may likely mention Rolls Royce.

Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi is a lover of vintage cars. According to reports, he is said to have vintage cars in his garage to cost about 2 billion naira in value. These sets of cars are passed to him by his father who loves and buys them during his lifetime.

Not many people know that Emir of Kano's 1952 Rolls Royce Silver Wraith is the ONLY Silver Wraith in the world customized with unique elliptical, grasshopper eye-like headlamps with dual beam reflectors. An account has it that three of them (for Sultan of Sokoto and Emirs of Kano and Katsina) were bought by the Native Authority for Queen Elizabeth's 1956 visit to Nigeria.

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This customized edition, which is the only surviving one among the said three, was sent to Kano for the Queen's visit. After the Queen's visit, the car was added to the fleet of the then emir, Muhammadu Sanusi (the grandfather of the present emir). In a strange twist, the car was seized from the emirate fleet and taken to Government House after deposition of the emir in April 1963.

Military governors of Kano State, CP Audu Bako and Col. Sani Bello as well as the first civilian governor of the state, Muhammadu Abubakar Rimi, all used the car during ceremonies. When Sabo Bakinzuwo was elected governor in 1983, he returned the car to the emirate, arguing that the car suited the Royals more than the politicians.

In 2005, during the reign of Emir Ado Bayero, the car was air-freighted to England and fully restored at the cost of 50,000 pounds.

A look at the engine shows that it has a straight six-cylinder postwar engine, which had been briefly made for the aborted by war Bentley Mark V, replaced conventional overhead valve gear with an F-head configuration of overhead inlet valves and side exhaust valves and reshaped combustion chambers. There were new main and big-end bearings and a more efficient drive to the timing gear. To this prewar mix, Rolls-Royce added chromed bores.

Initially, this engine retained the Mark V's capacity of 4,257 cc (259.8 cu in) increased from 1951 to 4,566 cc (278.6 cu in) and in 1955, after the introduction of the (standard wheelbase) Silver Cloud, to 4,887 cc (298.2 cu in) for the remaining Silver Wraiths. It has a capacity of 4,566 cc; from 1954 bore x stroke 95.25 x 114.3 mm (3 3/4 x 4 1/2 in), capacity 4,887 cc); cast iron cylinder block, aluminium alloy cylinder head, Stromberg carburettor (from 1951 Zenith carburettor, from 1956 twin SU carburettors); single dry plate clutch; 4-speed gearbox (from 1952 4-speed automatic gearbox optional), hypoid bevel final drive, independent front suspension with coil springs, semi-elliptic springs rear; drum brakes servo-assisted; wheelbase 3,225.8 mm (127 in)(from 1951 wheelbase 3,378.2 mm (133 in); tyre size 6.50 x 17 (from 1951 tyre size 6.50 x 16, for export cars tyre size 7.50 x 16 optional, for long wheelbase cars standard).

These are some of the images...

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Credit:
Jaafar!

Source:
https://www.autoreportng.com/2019/03/see-vintage-car-queen-elizabeth-rode.html