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TOH 653 was a gold Silver Shadow I 6750cc, UK registered Aug 74 until 1987, subsequent fate not listed. The rear plate underneath looks like ABC 123A format with Fxx xx0W, which may have been a genuine UK re-registration, but it should be a yellow plate on the back, so there is something funny going on. And it should not have an SSII badge - that is totally incorrect. Is it LHD or RHD?? Also has the bigger arch flares which came in April 74, so the TOH 653 data could be correct apart from colour - lots of mid-70s Shadows got painted white as wedding cars, so this looks like another. Typically casual RR build quality though - look at the bonnet fit.
The UK-plates mean nothing. A plenty of American owners of imported cars love to place them under the regular plates, often they even buy outrageuos fakes as offered here: http://www.germanplates.com/european-license-plates.html
or pick old European plates via eBay.
By the adjustment of the inner mirror; I'd say, it's RHD. But it also wears the American sidemarkers. In correlation of all these non-original bits and bites, plus the somehow distorted front (the bumper looks crooked either), I suggest to identify it as a helter-skelter-hackjob-clunker.
A propos RR: in my actual classic car magazine is a buyers guide for the Silver Spirit/Silver Spur.
Conclusion: I have to say good-bye to the idea, to buy one and use it as freaky all-day car
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