Dear Bob, what is leaking is the accumulator valve body UE37583, quite cheap as an exchange part. The empty bracket in the engine bay is for the washer fluid bottle.

They're like derelict stately manor houses when they are neglected aren't they. No matter how effed they are you can still see the magnificence that they hold. Worth doing in my opinion, not financially maybe but they are so beautiful it's like an honour to bring them back to life. A labour of love and I think red is an amazing idea.

OMG! There’s something about these Rolls Royce videos that’s sooooooo good. Like when you were driving it into the garage. Hilarious and terrifying at the same time. 😂😂😂

Great talk about priorities Bob! Agree 100%, have you hobby, have your passions, but do them within reason. My affordable dream car was a Lexus IS 350. It's a beautiful red called vermillion and it has the really light ivory interior and the real polished wood..but I ONLY bought it, after I paid my house off. Not just that, but my house was to my standard, not falling to bits. Nothing worse than a dump of a house with a flash car parked in front.

48 seconds in and already I'm laughing hysterically. Whoa whoa whoa whoa. Whoa. got to put it in reverse......fuck. lol It is a gorgeous car!

Dude life is short enjoy your hobbies, totally cool that you got the gonads to go through this adventure! I totally get you on this! Keep the fine work inspiring us to carry on. Maybe get a power washer and a floor sprayer for the undercarriage and do a hand car wash with care masking off the interior to keep it dry.

This belongs in your fleet! Smooth it out, wrap it a gorgeous deep red, fix the top and a clean. There you'll have a beautiful, super stylish and reliable airport fetcher and boulevard cruiser... Thanks for taking us along! It going to be great whatever you decide!

Looks like a great car, looks like it has pretty good bones. Love your videos they help me get through rough times

man, every time you pull a car over that hole, I get worried about you falling in the hole at the front of the car walking around it....damn that would hurt......what a cool looking car Bob! needs some love, but that thing would be a cruiser.....

Bob you are a celebrity

What a great ride. Worth fixing with the right approach. You know best Bob. Can't wait to see this in future vid's.

Your a sneaky one Mr. BOB.... Luv it not disclosing what you paid for it 😜👍🏻

Love that gem. Moneypit or not, it´s a gem that needs gentle hands for some time ahead. Keep up what you believe in. Regards from Sweden.

The windows don’t go completely up with the main window switch. They go up around 90% of the way. The last 10% is done by pressing the small little black button above the window switch. This was how they did it in the factory. Weird I know, but the factory thought that feature was a safety feature at the time. I used to own a few of these. Please fix the brakes. It will be expensive to do that. As you know it’s a high pressure system and leaks easily. The pistons in the calipers will most probably be rusted. Good luck

This is why I only want the Corniche ‘Coupe’ hardtop. The roof repair/mechanism will take up all your effort, and it still might not close properly. You might just leave it as a top down car and drive it on nice warm, non rainy days. I saw one Bob that the aftermarket roof put on and it would shrink in the cold weather, and thus not fully close. Good luck! PS- I’m a member of the RROC club and have seen many.

You’ve GOT to save and fix this car @VideoBob .. You are the keeper of the Rolls.. This car could absolutely be something special.. ( more than it is ).. I’d LOVE to see a full series of you bringing this back to a beautiful piece of art. Stay blessed brother!!

The corniche would look incredible wetsanded and primed and that original blue would look tasty. Wrapped in VideoBob red with the white wheels. ⚔️🤘

Video Bob is the best

Always loved the Corniche, never understand why someone would neglect a special car like that. Rims look like they're from a Silver Spirit

I'm so glad I found this channel, it's a hoot! One of your classic videos popped up on my computer. The gypsies throwing rocks at you because you were exposing their con! I about died laughing! I swear you remind me of this old friend of the family. He was a tool pusher in the oil fields in the early 1970's and built Pontiac's. Rochester company used to send him carburetors to fix he was that sharp! Anyway he pulled pranks on people all the time like these con artists and grifters. I'm enjoying the show....

Bob, you do you. Have fun.

You keep it real Bob, that’s why I love watching your videos!!!

I think you have the right plan for the car. Make it drivable and look presentable without spending too much if possible.

Good on you. Im going to enjoy this rebuild just as I did with Gary Mavers and his Royce. Perhaps you can have Gary Mavers visit some time and help with bits and bobs when he is in the US. Keep the colour, wrap it if you must... don't paint it... its not a show pony... Clean it up, do basic repair work and send it down the road to the next owner...

Epic find. It should clean up well

Nice project and good advice.

Goodluck with the car Bob.

For the wheels, I'd go back to the original '73 look with the center R-R hubcaps on black steelies.

Love this corniche, cant wait to see it get the VideoBob love.

There was no "strip down" Corniche! The only options were exterior/interior colors;therefore, this year Corniche did not have the wooden tray tables. The leak looks like it's from one of the brake valve bodies on top of one of the accumulators. Once removed, they are relatively easy to rebuild. If you purchased the car for under $20K, it was an awesone deal. If $24k-$28K, that's about right for it's condition!

you used to hear "its the cadillac of (blank)". you don't hear that much anymore. but you still hear "its the rolls royce of (blank)"

Another awesome video! Thanks

You have a real fixer upper lol. I know you will do it right. I believe it would make a great Uber on the strip. That’s a great idea

Super sweet Ride!!!!!

She was most certainly purring. Well done Bob 💪

You should look into that dry ice blasting , just removes the dirt and leaves what’s underneath original for the under carriage

The car has good bones. Buy it and do a mechanical sympathetic restoration so that everything at least Works. Then tackle the bodywork, detail clean. Paintwork to whatever standard you wish to achieve. Then make sure that you drive it often.

Loving ya vids Bob big love from New Zealand

Corniche rag top has always been my dream car, but I can see that one would give me nightmares! I've worked on Shadows and Spurs but they were in excellent condition when I bought them! I don't have 1/100th of your knowledge and would have never touched that one! I would have been scared to death by all those sounds. Such a shame that someone did not take better care of such a fantastic car!

It's going to cost you a small fortune to straighten that RR. But it will be worth it for your collection ❤❤. Didn't know there was a thing called popcorn exhaust 😅😅😅

I feel your pain people like to look good in them and scrimp on the maintenance I'm doing the gearbox on my 2002 bentley arnage at the moment people get scared of doing their own maintenance but it's just a car take it to any garage and they will see the rolls royce or bentley badge and they see $$$$$$$ mine lost reverse gear garage wanted £4.500 +VAT I studied gearbox and found the reverse solenoid shaft to be at fault it's cost me £350 in parts and oils hopefully next week it will be back together 😊 love your videos

When working on old cars I always first inspect for oil leaks then use a high pressure steamer just cleaning off all the shit. Makes it so mutch better and easier doing the jobs that needs to be done😊

you know what your doing bob your careful with your money and keep up the vids pal lovin them

BRING THAT BABY BACK TO IT'S GLORY!

Bob, you have to dry ice sandblast it under and motor compartment. A good wet sand and some body repair. A nice red wrap like you like it and I leave the wheels to you probably black to go with the nice red body. Maybe later make a nice white interior like you said, it would look so graceful. The heck that she’s not full equipped, like you said it’s paid and it’s yours. Myself, I would sell the one that JR drove because I think that the corniche is more glamor and people from today must not even remember JR anyway. But please keep that Corniche unless you find another one that’s worth it. But I think that cheap one’s are rare.

The windows are meant to stop short of going all the way up. There is a button you press for them to fully close. It’s an old fashioned safety feature.

"You should just live in a 900 square foot house and drive a Corolla" sarcasm ... you are you and know Gene ... awesome

I’m in similar situation, but the Corniche needs mechanicals working and a good detail as-is. The quarter panel damage is unfortunate.

Job 1 clean the bottom of the car as best you can, then you'll see exactly what is leaking & what needs to be replaced/repaired. The big costs with these cars are the brakes & suspension, if you can sort those issues out, the rest is pretty easy.

That welding on the exhaust. lol WOW

Do what you have to do!!!

All that leaking fluid crud was rust prevention!

My dad had a rr corniche when I was a kid. White with red interior and a silver spur I think that was the name. Grew up around rr.

Good video

Yay Bob! In before Tam!!! 😛

Good morning Bob, my opinion, you own and drive the majestic phantom and the silver shadow and I remember you driving the caddilac convertible with leopard interior. Driving the caddy you said "it drives like a Rolls Royce" so keep it that way. The Cornish is a beautiful concept a peace of art in those days but my advise find a new owner for that RR project. Don't burn your hands on that project. But any how I follow your RR project with a big smile and can't wait for the next episode. Greetings, Martinus/ Amsterdam/ Holland.

Reality sets in. We've all been there.

Windows have a safety button, theirs a second button to push to make them go up the final inch, child safety thing

The round black buttons on the door are safety switches. You press them once the window has reached the top of its travel and it will allow the window to close fully an extra inch.

As someone who tinkers with old RR’s most weekends, promise me you won’t skimp on the brakes. Take time to learn how the pressure spheres work. Learn to do a pump down test and don’t drive it until you have confidence that you have reserve pressure in the system. The thought of A 2.5 tonne missile with no brakes is terrifying.

Wow thing looks barely wide enough for the oil bay

Need to find a A-team van

I love my 1969 RR SS DHC! And so do the girls.

bob eats vegas in the Corniche?? bob eats vegas wrap would be cool branding

Powder coat the wheels. Powder coating lasts a long time

RR are massive

I know you’re probably staying true to original parts. But if you could upgrade that power steering to electric that would be a step in the right direction

was that a corniche in the movie, sixteen candles?

if you can pull it off. i think your idea of a red with white interior convertible rolls would be cool.

Hey my sweetheart Bob 🤩🤩I am sooo super duper excited to see the finish restoration of my dream car💝💝I know that you are going to work your magic 💝💝I am currently praying my heart out that you make the decision to keep it🥰🥰🥰 ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL 😍😍😍

Get it machine polished and you will love it.

Corniche drop head coupe! One of my most favorite cars ever. Black is the best color, and the black and tan interior is very nice, but with a ridiculously expensive red interior, would be stunning! But the 64 thousand dollar question is… how much is a very good one worth?

is this the model vehicle they used to make the car in the movie the car?, cause the front of the car looks like it has similarities with the corniche

not the worst welds i have seen, not by a long shot. those are darn pretty compared to some of the crud i've seen.

Hey Bob, Lovin yr vids buddy, You worked for it, You deserve to have what makes you happy. Yes theres good debt and bad debt, Good being a loan on something that will be an investment and eventually worth more over time, bad debt being on something that will lose money the minute you drive it off the forecourt! because you'll never get it back.. Keep the vids a comin and have subd too, found you thru a Kiss video and HUGE congrats on the new Rolls too, What about buying or even replicating the original BAT MOBILE ?? How cool would that be? Rock On !

😀👍🇸🇪 Keep it!

Looks like a turbo 400tranmission

how many Miles on the Corniche?

ouch power steerring - ouch (flush and fill all fluids etc)

Looking forward how you turn this pice of stone to jewel

Video Bob What did you pay for that??

Don’t I loveeeeeee the interior

you got a lot of car for the small amount you paid. you can afford to spend the cash getting it sorted mechanically. looks like you have some leaks and basic TLC.. wrapping it will save money. you should at least have the interior detailed. its worth having that be flawless. 10k for mechanics, and another 10k for appearance. the car would be worth much more than you spent and would be road worthy.

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Now you sound like Dave Ramsey. 🙂

This will be sold soon.

Talk to car wizard and boogie about those spheres. Bill might be more that the AEG sphere recently opened

It's a Duesy!

wise words as always mate. Y'all love a bit of English. ;-) p.s. White wheels belong only on a white car. :-)

The detail geek has a under car cleaner Maybe spray gunk first then try what he uses He's on KZfaq

"Sometimes I bitchy." 🤣

The impossible dream

The 1973 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow has an average recorded value of $12,796.13 (USD….. I wouldn’t drop too much into this one VB

How’s getting hold of the title going? Personally, I wouldn’t be putting any money in to anything unless you can legally say it’s yours. It would be a great project.

like 1K !

Someone went through the expense of putting Vogue's on it.

worth fixing the joys you will have will be endless

*hoovie

Probably a Porsche panerama

that car was never beige..thats bondo.