This beautiful Rolls-Royce Phantom V 3 tons was manufactured by Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Limited, Crewe, Cheshire, England, and delivered to John Lennon on June 3 1965. The Beatle ordered him to install a radio, a Sony television, a cooler, a stereo and the rear seat could become a large double bed. At first the body was painted matte black, but two years later John got tired of always seeing the color and decided to give a new and colorful look at his beloved Rolls-Royce. In April 1967 he personally visited the offices Fallon Planning Board Limited, a body shop located in Chertsey, Surrey, England, to paint your car with psychedelic motifs. The cost of the work was £ 2,000, about $ 4,200. It is said that when an old Rolls-Royce saw the John Lennon freshly painted with psychedelic motifs those strolling through central London, became angry and attacked the car with his umbrella, shouting: "Cunning, scoundrel! How dare you do this to a Rolls-Royce! ". In England, people feel genuine passion for Rolls-Royce and are considered one of the many symbols of British dignity.
John Lennon used frequently this Rolls-Royce during the heyday of the Beatles between 1966 and 1969. In 1970 when John and Yoko Ono moved to the United States, the car traveled with them. And there is not used as it yielded a number of rock stars like the Rolling Stones, the Moody Blues and Bob Dylan. Later he tried to sell it to an American buyer, but the deal never materialized, so Rolls-Royce ended in a warehouse in New York. In December 1977 John Lennon and Yoko Ono donated the car to the Museum Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York, in exchange for a tax credit of $ 225,000, which was exposed for a while. On June 29, 1985, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum decided auction and was bought by Canadian Mr. Jim Pattison, chairman of the company Ripley's International Inc., with the intention of exposing his museum, at a price of $ 2,299,000. Later, as an act of friendship, Pattison gave the car to the Queen of England as a gift. At present, the Rolls-Royce is in the Royal British Columbia Museum in Victoria, Canada, and only occasionally exhibits to raise funds. However this was not the only Rolls-Royce that was John Lennon, also had another Rolls Royce Phantom V, with registration EUC 1000, white can be seen in the video for the song "The Ballad of John & Yoko ".
