BEING a king means having whatever you want, which is exactly what happened here with this crazy one-off Rolls-Royce.
The king in question was Hassan II of Morocco, who felt his standard 1977 Rolls-Royce Carmargue just wasn’t cutting it.
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It was a lovely car, but it had one issue: it couldn’t be driven off-road for falcon hunting. Obviously.
Hunting with falcons, by the way. Not hunting falcons.
That’s probably when Hassan remembered he was a king and could set that right.
He called upon famous Swiss coachbuilder Sbarro to design and build such a car at great expense and the result is what you see above.
It’s clear the car’s ride height has been increased and off-road tyres fitted, although we’re not sure if all-wheel-drive was fitted.
The roof of the car has been chopped off, the front screen has been swapped for a folding one, the doors removed completely and a custom interior fitted.
At the rear, what appears to be a grab handle has been mounted, which also doubles up as a handy perch for the king’s falcons.
Lastly there’s new blue paint, and body modifications such as flared wheel arches to house those massive new wheels.
The price in 1977 for a standard Carmargue was around £30,000 or £200,000 in today’s money, and these modifications would have cost hundreds of thousands more.
It seems that the German seller isn’t having much luck – the car was initially on sale back in 2016 but clearly didn’t sell.
They’ve now stuck it back on the market at 248,000 Euros (£213k), maybe hoping more people are searching for a falcon-hunting Roller post-pandemic.
The standard Rolls-Royce Carmargue wasn’t universally loved when it first appeared in 1975, despite it being the world’s most expensive production car at the time.
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