US$113,288.00 The Corniche was a development of the Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow, with the two door variants of that model marketed as the 'Silver Shadow Mulliner Park Ward two door fixed head coupé & drop head coupé' from 1966 until when the Corniche name was applied. The exterior design was by John Polwhele Blatchley. The model was assembled and finished in London at Mulliner Park Ward as continuation of the 1965 Silver Shadow coupe and 1966 drophead, with the Corniche name applied in March 1966. The Corniche was also sold as a Bentley, though that model became known as the Continental in 1984.Rolls Royce began marketing the Corniche in 1971, having registered the name in the 1930s. The original Corniche was a prototype from 1939 based on the Bentley Mark V featuring coachwork by the Paris firm, 'Carrosserie Vanvooren'. The single car undertook 24000 km of endurance testing in Continental Europe before being blown up by a bomb at Dieppe while waiting at the dockside to be shipped to England.The Corniche nameplate stems from the originally French and Italian term for a coastal road, especially along the face of a cliff. The car was available as coupé or convertible and used the standard Rolls-Royce V8 engine with an aluminium-silicon alloy block and aluminium cylinder heads with cast iron wet cylinder liners. The bore was 104.1 mm and the stroke was 99.1 mm for a total of 6.75 litre. Twin SU carburettors were initially fitted, but were replaced with a single Solex 4A1 four-barrel carburetor introduced in 1977. Desmogged export models retained the twin SUs until 1980, when Bosch fuel injection was added.A three-speed automatic transmission, sourced from General Motors, was standard. A four-wheel independent suspension with coil springs was augmented with a hydraulic self-levelling system (using the same system as Citroën,...