Former Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond on restoring Field Marshall Montgomery’s Rolls Royce Wraith
JUST 72 hours after D-Day, the bloodiest clash since World War One, soldiers slogging up a Normandy shore were stunned when a Rolls-Royce overtook them.
After the battle for Normandy ended in late August 1944, Monty was chauffeured all over Europe visiting troops in the Brigadier Mike Caldicott says: “It was in London during the Second World War and actually got damaged by a Luftwaffe bomb in 1941. “It’s been reduced to bare metal, we’ve reshaped parts of it, critical panels that had been dented, some of them suspected to have been bomb damaged.“I did help with some of the initial sanding down of the bodywork, and I wanted to be involved at the polishing stage, but I didn’t dare risk it — I left that to the experts.”
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