CONVOY OF CLASSICS ROLLS INTO SCOTLAND

Ahost of gleaming Rollsroyce cars will be wowing Scottish car fans this weekend as they tour the countryside to celebrate two landmark anniversaries.

Members of the Rolls-royce and Bentley Enthusiasts’ Club (RREC) from around the world will spend two days touring Scotland to mark the club’s 60th anniversary and 110 years since the Silver Ghost dominated the Scottish Reliability Trials.

Around 50 Rolls-royce and Bentley cars dating all the way from 1907 to the present day will be taking part as the tour stops off at Loch Lomond and Pitlochry. The cars will be following many of the twisting, mountainous roads used by that original Silver Ghost when it competed in the 1907 reliability trials, before gathering at Hopetoun House in South Queensferry on Sunday.

At Hopetoun House the tour cars will be joined by around 40 more cars from the club’s Scottish section and members of the public will be free to wander around, admire and perhaps even sit in some of the luxury cars, including the legendary AX 201 – the car that completed the original trials back in 1907.

The Scottish visit is part of a larger 18-day, 2,000-mile round-britain tour being undertaken by the club’s members. Leaving from the famous Brooklands racing circuit the tour takes in stretches of the Jurassic Coast, Devon, Wales and the Lake District on its way to Scot- land before heading back via Durham, Harrogate and Rut- land Water before the annual RREC international rally at Burghley House.

The tour reaches Scotland on Friday, with the vehicles arriving at Hopetoun House from around midday on Sunday.