The 1974 film, scripted by Francis Ford Coppola, starred Robert Redford as Jay Gatsby, a brilliant stroke of casting, and Mia Farrow as Daisy Buchanan. The Great Gatsby vividly captures the glamour and wild abandon of the Roaring Twenties and at its aesthetic heart is the 1928 Rolls-Royce Phantom offered here. Amidst the heat of pre-production for the film, the search was on for the perfect car to star as Jay Gatsby’s Rolls-Royce. Fitzgerald’s incomparable, ornate style described the car through his narrator, Nick Carraway, “It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hat-boxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of windshields that mirrored a dozen suns.

The well-known collector maintained and loved the car for the rest of his life. It was then acquired by legendary Texan collector John O’Quinn of Houston who would further own it for the remainder of his life. The current owner would acquire it from the O’Quinn Estate and then decide to give the legendary automobile a return to its former glory.

Without a doubt, the quintessential Rolls-Royce body style of the classic era is the Ascot Phaeton; being the only known dual cowl makes it a truly singular and important automobile. This fact alone makes this car an immensely valuable Rolls-Royce. The addition to the car’s provenance as one of the most famous motion picture cars to ever grace the silver screen makes this car nearly priceless. In 2020, Steve McQueen’s iconic pop-culture Mustang from Bullitt fetched a tidy sum and S304KP is clearly in the same class. Hailing from the classic feature film and the symbolic heart of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s beloved novel, The Great Gatsby, this car epitomizes the Roaring Twenties and the American Dream. In short, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. “You can’t repeat the past?” In the Gatsby Rolls, “of course, you can, old sport!”