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Rolls-Royce Motor Cars has unveiled a one-of-one Phantom Extended that pays homage to the 1964 James Bond film, Goldfinger, one of twelve Rolls-Royce appearances in the 007 film franchise.
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- Revealed in the film’s 60th anniversary year, it takes inspiration from the 1937 Phantom III Sedanca de Ville owned by the eponymous villain, Auric Goldfinger.
- Phantom Goldfinger incorporates some of the most extensively engineered Bespoke features applied to a one-of-one motor car in Rolls-Royce history, each linking to the Goldfinger film plot.
- A total of three years of continuous development was required to bring each of these Bespoke features to life, from a complex sculptural Gallery to a gold golf putter mounted inside the boot.
- For the exterior of this tribute to Goldfinger’s motor car, Rolls-Royce paint specialists precisely matched the exterior yellow hue to the original 1937 Phantom III Sedanca de Ville used in the film.
- The 21-inch disc wheels are finished in Black with silver ‘floating’ hubcaps, creating a tone-on-tone effect that recalls the wheel design of the 1937 motor car as seen in the film.
- The Spirit of Ecstasy has been given a unique finish. Sections of the figurine appear to reveal gold underneath, suggesting it is made of solid gold, concealed with a silver coat.
- Since it is not possible to silver-plate gold, Rolls-Royce specialists used a solid silver Spirit of Ecstasy and skilfully gold-plated it with 18-carat gold to achieve the ‘gold reveal’ effect.
- The centre console between front seats is re-engineered to house an illuminated solid 18-carat gold bar, shaped as a Phantom ‘Speedform’, a representation of the car’s design in miniature.
- The inner lid of the glovebox is also debossed with Goldfinger’s iconic quote: “This is Gold, Mr. Bond. All my life, I have been in love with its colour, its brilliance, its divine heaviness.”
- The treadplates are gold-plated and embossed using the same font developed for the film. The 24-carat gold-plated VIN plaque is engraved with a specially obtained VIN, which ends in 007.
- The three-dimensional design in Phantom’s Gallery which runs the full width of the front fascia, was hand-drawn. It is a precise yet artistic isoline map that shows the contours of the Furka Pass.
- Starlight Headliner of Phantom Goldfinger also perfectly reflects the constellations as they were positioned over the Furka Pass on 11 July 1964 – the last day of filming the scene in Switzerland.
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