I enjoyed reading your Rolls-Royce and Bentley Enthusiasts website recently and as you invite readers to send you articles to publish, I thought other owners might be interested in a variation to the norm that I have on my RR SpiritII

As I say I have a Silver Spirit II and suggest that this marque is wonderful and as I would never pay more than £35,000 for any car on principle, what great value these pre-owned cars are.

My favourite cars are the "ultimate" Silver Cloud II1 and the Silver Spirit series from II onwards, with their slowly introduced and subtle improvements. After all it took Rolls-Royce 18 years of study and design to get the Spirit series off the drawing board. So when you compare for example, Mercedes Benz with Rolls-Royce, the British car clearly excels in both build quality and materials.-------Yet I still have one little niggle about a design feature, which is the Spirits headlights which somehow lack the "fizz" of the rest of the design.

My car has a conversion to the Bentley headlight configuration, which costs about £600 to do.This in my opinion improves the style of the car and gives a better headlight beam.
I still have the RR headlights pack so that when I change cars in the future and the buyer prefers the other format, it is only a two hour job to convert back
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In the three years that I have owned my Silver Spirit II I have driven 13,000 very comfortable miles, with one full service every 12 months including a 6,000 mile service by P. A. Wood Ltd of Great Easton and two new Avon Turbo. Tyres which I get from Cambridge Performance Tyres for £125 each fitted.
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Certainly this car cannot be considered excessively expensive to run and with the superb Electronic Fuel Injection system I get 21 mpg, though on the high speed Autobahns in Germany where a 120 mph+ in this car is smoothly comfortable, it is a "gas guzzler"--- but travelling at a sedate 60 on English roads I don`t care if I`m passed as I guarantee that I will arrive more refreshed than the other guy.

With fully comprehensive insurance via Norwich Union at £390 pa, which is only fractionally more than I paid for my boring VW car ---I am probably preaching to the converted by saying, get a Rolls you will love it -I do.

Best wishes Alan Taylor. email

PS When my car had it`s recent service the garage advised that I have the paintwork flatted and polished to enhance the original colour. Has any RR reader done this themselves ? and what exactly do you need to do it? Or is it a job for the professionals?