Beatles Lost Rolls-Royce

The Beatles 1st. Company Car, a 1965 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III LWB Limousine known as CEL89. This bespoke car was ordered by Brian Epstein in 1965 from R.S. Mead Ltd. in Maidenhead for NEMS Enterprises. In 1962, The Beatles and Brian Epstein formed a management company NEMS Enterprises. With very special details as described on the Rolls Royce factory order sheet. After the death of Brian Epstein in 1967, Ringo Starr acquired CEL89 were it ended up in Los Angeles. Starr sold the car to his neighbor Marty Krofft who used it as his company car for Sid and Marty Krofft Productions in Hollywood, creators of H.R. Pufnstuf among other children’s television and film productions from the 60’sm 70’s and 80’s. The car was sold at the end of 1998 to collector and shipped to London. Before the car’s arrival in London, it was bought for this collection and shipped back to the United States in Febuary 1999. It is near completing a full restoration back to its original specifications.

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