Rolls-Royce Phantom VI Landaulette Semiconvertible Open 1973 Silver Black Matrix Scale Models 1:43

The Rolls-Royce Phantom VI was built from 1968 to 1990, making it one of the longest-lived post-war luxury cars by any manufacturer. Bodied almost exclusively by Mulliner Park Ward, the Landaulette configuration — with its fully opening rear hood over the passenger compartment and fixed front section — represents the rarest and most formal variant within that already limited output. Matrix Scale Models renders it at 1:43 in resin, in the Silver over Black two-tone that defined the early-1970s ceremonial specification.

The Last Separate-Chassis Rolls-Royce

The Phantom VI is significant in engineering terms as the final Rolls-Royce to use a separate body-on-frame chassis, a construction approach abandoned elsewhere in the range when the Silver Shadow adopted unitary bodywork in 1965. The engine was a V8 shared with the Silver Shadow, running twin SU carburettors; Rolls-Royce declined to publish a power figure, stating only that output was "sufficient." By 1973 — the year of this particular example — the Series III specification was established, bringing detail revisions to the grille surround and interior trim compared with the original 1968 cars.

Ceremonial Coachwork and the Silver-Black Tradition

The Landaulette body style — a semiconvertible in which the rear passenger compartment can be open to the air while the chauffeur remains enclosed — was the preferred configuration for state and royal use throughout the Phantom VI production span. British Royal Family and multiple heads of state employed Phantom VI Landaulettes from the late 1960s through the 1990s. The Silver over Black two-tone finish seen on this 1973 car was at the peak of its prestige appeal in the early 1970s, immediately legible as a head-of-state or royal household specification rather than a private owner's commission. It remains one of the most recognisable coachbuilt colour combinations of the period.

Matrix Scale Models: Resin at 1:43

Matrix Scale Models is a specialist resin 1:43 producer with a focus on rare, coachbuilt and low-volume vehicles that mainstream diecast tooling rarely addresses. Resin casting is particularly suited to the Phantom VI Landaulette: the folded landau hood, the formal roofline geometry and the fine brightwork of the Mulliner Park Ward body demand the dimensional accuracy that resin short-run production allows. The Silver over Black livery is reproduced across the full Park Ward coachbuilt body, including the distinct two-tone break line characteristic of period Rolls-Royce formal coachwork.