The Things They Say . . .

“Lincoln long featured a completely disappearing top (it vanished into the boot) and all American convertibles insist on a top that at least settles below the waistline. Then Rolls brings out a convertible that should be the last word in refinement, and what do you get? A clumsy jutting-up affair that makes one wonder whether the designers even grasped the problem, let alone sought an answer.”—Penthouse, writing about the Silver Shadow Park Ward convertible. They go on to criticise the way in which the turn-indicator repeaters on a Silver Shadow look like “a do-it-yourself accessory, screwed on the sides slapbang in the middle of nowhere”.