1979 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow II Endurance Prototype Hybrid Spec Blueprint Poster

Description

The Silver Shadow II was originally designed to glide silently through city streets while transporting important people to important places.

Ghost Protocol had different priorities.

This alternate-universe development program transforms the 1979 Rolls-Royce into a mid-engine endurance racing prototype, relocating the hybrid powertrain behind the rear seats and rebuilding nearly everything around it.

The wheelbase grows. The body widens. Cooling requirements become a lifestyle.

Massive sidepods feed radiator and intercooler systems. Trapezoidal front box flares contain an expanded track width. Twin dual-element rear wings sit above the rear deck because apparently one wing was considered insufficient.

The result somehow remains recognizable as a Rolls-Royce.

At least until you walk around it.

Presented here as a technical archive print, Ghost Protocol documents a factory motorsport program that never existed, but feels just believable enough to make you wonder.

Blueprint Details

• 1979 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow II

• Ghost Protocol Design Program

• Endurance Prototype Hybrid Specification

• Front, Rear, Side, and Three-Quarter Technical Projections

• Widebody Syndicate Archive Series

• Archive Reference: 79-WS-DEV

Competition Department Memo #79-WS-DEV

Project objective:
Develop a luxury sedan capable of competing in endurance motorsport.

Project outcome:
The luxury sedan remains technically present.