After making record of driving 1923 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost on Manali-Leh-Srinagar highway and 18,380 feet high Khardung-la with help of Himachal Vacation Travels and Adventure (Now Discover Kullu Manali), Rick Brown, 70, has planned to challenge the terrains of Nepal and Bhutan this month. Rich has so far driven his car 3,50,000 kms (since 1996) in 60 countries. Rick Brown, a 70-year-old cheerful American and his 1923 Springfield Silver Ghost Rolls-Royce, after visiting 59 countries and driving 3.5 lakh kilometers, have had a dream long back to drive on some of the highest and challenging mountain passes in Himachal and Ladakh. It was Monday and Tuesday, when Rick made history after successfully driving his 89-year-old vintage car on 18,380 feet high Khardung-la. According to Rick, his car is the most driven Rolls-Royce of the world. Keep driving his car is the passion of Rick who proudly said that India is the 60th country he had visited on his Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost but he was upset as he could not obtain permission from Defense Ministry and Home Ministry to drive on 18,634 feet high Marsimik-la for September 5. “Now I can drive only up to Pangong Tso. Still I’ll be driving on some high altitude mountain passes here till next couple of days,” he said. Most of the people would be terrified only with imagination to drive on terrains along Manali-Leh-Srinagar highway with some of the highest motorable passes of the world like Rohtang, Baralacha, Lachung-la and Khardung-la. But, this elderly American is going to do so with his 1923 make vintage car. And he has s uccessfully cleared all hard phases of the tour. When many modern high efficient jeeps had given up before bad condition of Manali-Rohtang highway, Rick drove his car like he was enjoying a ride on
After making record of driving 1923 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost on Manali-Leh-Srinagar highway and 18,380 feet high Khardung-la with help of Himachal Vacation Travels and Adventure (Now Discover Kullu Manali), Rick Brown, 70, has planned to challenge the terrains of Nepal and Bhutan this month. Rich has so far driven his car 3,50,000 kms (since 1996)
