Buy Uncle Monty's Rolls-Royce! 1953 Silver Wraith that appeared in cult classic ... trends now
The vintage Rolls-Royce driven by mad Uncle Monty in the cult classic film Withnail and I has gone on sale for £135,000.
The 1953 Silver Wraith features in the famous scene in which Richard E Grant and Paul McGann drunkenly terrorise the elderly patrons of a Penrith tearoom in the 1987 British black comedy.
Before they can be arrested for accosting the tea shop's proprietor, the pair are spirited away in the Rolls by Uncle Monty, played by the late Harry Potter star Richard Griffiths.
The rare post-war Rolls-Royce recently underwent renovations costing £188,000 and has won best in class awards at classic car events - with prospective owners in with a chance to 'purchase a true piece of British motoring history'.
The 1953 Silver Wraith features in the famous scene in which Richard E Grant and Paul McGann drunkenly terrorise the elderly patrons of a Penrith tearoom in the 1987 British black comedy
Before they can be arrested for accosting the tea shop's proprietor, the pair are spirited away in the Rolls by Uncle Monty, played by the late Harry Potter star Richard Griffiths
The rare post-war Rolls-Royce recently underwent renovations costing £188,000 and has won 'best in class' awards at classic car events
Withnail and I is routinely regarded as being among the finest British movies ever made and has achieved cult classic status among fans around the world
The car was used in filming for Withnail and I between August and December 1986 and the film, directed by Bruce Robinson, was released on 1 January 1987.
It has achieved cult classic status among fans around the world.
The film sees two out-of-work actors who share a flat in Camden Town in 1969 head off for a disastrous attempt at a holiday in the Lake District.
Richard E Grant and Paul McGann take the leads as the boozy thesps, while the late Richard Griffiths - known for his role as Vernon Dursley in the Harry Potter films - plays Withnail's wealthy and flamboyant Uncle Monty.
The film is routinely regarded as being among the finest British movies ever made.
In 1999, the British Film Institute voted Withnail and I the 29th greatest British film of all time.
In a 2017 poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers and critics for Time Out magazine it was ranked the 15th best British film ever.
The line 'we want the finest wines available to humanity, we want them here and we want them now', drunkenly delivered by Richard E Grant in the Penrith tearoom, was voted the third favourite film one-liner in a 2003 poll of 1,000 film fans.
The maroon and gold 1953 Rolls Royce Silver Wraith Hooper Sedanca is complete with chrome trim and is decked out inside with reptile skin on the dashboard.
Richard E Grant and Paul McGann take the leads as the boozy thesps, while the late Richard Griffiths - known for his role as Vernon
