Restoring an 86-year-old Rolls-Royce isn’t for sissies

If you ask Bogdan Letowt why he decided to strip down his 1934 Rolls-Royce Phantom II Continental to the last nut and bolt, his reply is likely to be cryptic, to say the least.

The question was put to him at his Johannesburg workshop, after a pleasant few hours had been spent while Bogdan enthused about the amazing attention to detail and engineering excellence of his machine. He turned to one of the storage areas in his workshop and brandished a rather innocuous piece of steel tubing that looked like a common-or-workshop variety of electrical conduit...

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