Here's a little bit of history for you: check out the psychedelic paint job on John Lennon's 1965 Rolls-Royce Phantom V touring limousine.
I saw this car in the lobby of the Royal BC Museum recently. (The museum is closed now for the quarantine.) It does have a pretty wild paint job as you can see, and it includes a turntable for all you vinyl record fans. Oh... and it's got a bed in case you want to take it camping!
Lennon paid an artist to paint it just before the release of Sgt. Pepper's in 1967. I wonder what people thought of it at the time? I'll bet Rolls-Royce was not amused, although perhaps they enjoyed the publicity.
John and Yoko took the car to New York City in 1970, and it was eventually donated to the Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design after Lennon's death.
In 1985 it was purchased from Sotheby's for 2.2 million dollars... I guess thats where the "most expensive car in the world" label comes from although today you could pay up to 5 million for something like a new Lamborghini Veneno... if you want the power windows option that is.
The car was donated to the BC museum in 1986 and roughly once a year when they are between major displays and there is nothing else going on they put this thing on display.
Absolutely everything I know about the car comes from the sign above. All photos were taken by me, @keithboone. What would you do if someone gave this car to you? I think I'd give it a new paint job but that's just me! Nah... I'm kidding. You could never change this paint job, it's part of history!
It was fifty-three years ago today, Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play...
