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First Owner
Subsequent Owners Details
Registration Illustrations
179TA
Gurney Nutting Drophead Sedanca Coupé 1935
Sir Albert Edward Harry Mayer Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery and Midlothian (1882-1974) of 38 Berkeley Square, London W1 and Dalmeny House, South Queensferry, West Lothian, Edinburgh and Mentmore, Leighton Buzzard and Cleveland House, Newmarket, Suffolk, UK. MP for Midlothian 1906- 1910. Lord-Lieutenant of Midlothian 1929-1964. Secretary of State for Scotland 1945.
He also owned a Phantom I 112RC, a Phantom II Continental 71MW and a Phantom III 3AZ158.
William G. Parfet (1973, USA); Otis Chandler Museum (1976, USA); Boone W. LaGrange (1978, USA); Robert Thomas Martin Jr (1985, USA); Malcolm E. Ginns (>1998, UK); Victor Roberto Müller (2000- 2015>, NDL and UK).
179TA is one of eighteen examples built to the Owen drophead design by Gurney Nutting. It almost certainly had wing valances from new because they became fashionable from 1934.
Present owner Victor Müller is the CEO and founder of Spyker Cars and former CEO of Saab Automobile AB.
Engine: SV15; Maker (Body No.), Body (Design No.): Gurney Nutting, Owen Drophead Sedanca Coupé; Off-Test: 18 April, 1935
DBH683; 999HUB GENTILE/243
179TA was another Owen-designed drophead sedanca coupé and one of four currently with wing valances (74MY, 32PY, 74PY and 179TA).
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