Equipment
Body color wheel discs, Bausch & Lomb drum headlights and cowl lights, black leather covered trunk, leather upholstery.
Condition
1993 AACA National First Prize restoration that looks much fresher. CCCA National First Prize #1695. Restored the first time in 1953, later owne dby William Maxwell Davis, then owned by and restored for Rick Carroll, from whose estate Bill Lassiter acquired it.
Market commentary
The four-place close coupled Speedster coachwork on this Springfield-built Rolls-Royce is one of Brewster's best even though only five of them were built; the car's profile is dramatic and rakish but also elegant, a hard combination of attributes to meld into one very large automobile. At Christie's auction of the Lassiter collection in 1999 only one car bettered the $420,500 that this Derby Speedster brought, Duesenberg s/n 2200 with Murphy convertible coupe coachwork for $662,500. The worm may have turned, as this car brought more than most disappearing top Murphy convertible coupes. It deserves to have done even if it cost a lot to establish its credibility. This is an eye-watering price.