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Danville Street Sighting - 1959 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II. All my life I considered it sacrilegious to cut up a fine luxury car like a Rolls-Royce or Bentley, particularly a classic one. It was one of the things you just didn't do. So of course, someone did. The Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud was produced from 1956 to 1966 and was RR's volume seller during that time. The standard car was built on a separate frame to allow for custom coachwork. Power came from an inline six for early models, but the Silver Cloud II gained a 6.2 liter V8 from Chevrolet. It sits very low to the ground thanks to an air bag system that can raise or lower it as desired. Wheels appear to have come from a late 1930s Ford and have chrome center caps with beauty rings, with wide whitewall tires to set them off.