{"id":22411,"date":"2023-05-18T23:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/?p=22411"},"modified":"2026-09-13T23:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T15:48:11","slug":"mike-skinners-custom-rolls-royce-silver-shadow-is-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/2023\/05\/18\/mike-skinners-custom-rolls-royce-silver-shadow-is-for-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Skinner’s Custom Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow Is for Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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When Mike Skinner of The Streets released his third studio album, The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living, it asked us to unpack the lyricist\u2019s rise to fame \u2014 and his subsequent inner monologue that also dissected time and time again what fame can be, for good and for bad. It was yet another seminal body of work, following on from the debut EP Original Pirate Material and the follow up to that, A Grand Don\u2019t Come for Free. In Skinner\u2019s catalog, many of the songs go down in history as greats \u2014 and so does the Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fittingly, Skinner once owned a Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow, notably this very example you see here. It now finds itself up for grabs on the auction site Collecting Cars, and it is nothing short of a piece of music history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The R-R SS has appeared in music videos for decades, most famously in Coldplay\u2019s \u201cMAGIC\u201d and within the works of the psychedelic rock band Kula Shaker. Elsewhere, Freddie Mercury once owned one, and \u201cinsisted that we sign all of the (EMI\/Elektra) contracts, all of us together, in the back of the Roller because this was the first Rolls he\u2019d ever owned,\u201d per the band\u2019s manager Jim Beach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Skinner\u2019s example is featured on The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living\u2018s album cover, thus continuing the car\u2019s musical legacy. It\u2019s far from stock, as the 1974 model was extensively modified by Skinner before featuring on the album cover to appear in the form it\u2019s in today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under the bonnet is a 6.75-liter carburetor-mated V8, upgraded with an Edelbrock air cleaner that works to drive the rear wheels through a three-speed automatic transmission. As for the exterior, it\u2019s been re-painted in \u201cGloss Black\u201d and sits on a whopping set of 22\u201d Center Line \u201cSmoothies\u201d rims, tucked under the arches thanks to an air suspension. A twin-pipe central exit exhaust is another oddity, but things only get more unique inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here, Skinner added the front seats from a Porsche 928, a custom pair of rear seats designed to match, and fully reupholstered everything in tan leather. Naturally, a custom sound system was added, as were custom door handle plaques reading \u201cTHE BEATS,\u201d a play on his band\u2019s name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is currently listed on Collecting Cars with a bid of \u00a325,750 and the sale concludes at 8 p.m. BST\/3 p.m. ET, today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When Mike Skinner of The Streets released his third studio album, The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living, it asked us to unpack the lyricist\u2019s rise to fame \u2014 and his subsequent inner monologue that also dissected time and time again what fame can be, for good and for bad. It was yet another […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[223],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-22411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car","tag-rolls-royce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22426,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22411\/revisions\/22426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}