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The Phantom I Ascot Dual Cowl Sport Phaeton was owned by the character Jay Gatsby, played by Robert Redford, in the 1974 film.
The car is believed to be the only one of its kind built with a dual cowl phaeton body, which includes separate front and rear compartments, each with their own windshield.
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Robert Redford played Jay Gatsby in the 1974 film. (Paramount/Getty Images)
It was chosen for the production because Gatsby owned a Rolls-Royce in the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel the film was based on, and was repainted yellow and reupholstered with green leather to match the colors described in the book.
The Rolls-Royce was repainted to match one described in the novel. (Worldwide Auctioneers)
"It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hat-boxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of wind-shields that mirrored a dozen suns. Sitting down behind many layers of glass in a sort of green leather conservatory, we started to town," narrator Nick Carraway said.
The car features creamy yellow paint and green leather upholstery. (Worldwide Auctioneers)
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The car was last auctioned in 2009 for $238,000, according to Hagerty, but it has since received an extensive restoration that took eight years to complete at a cost of $800,000.
The car is powered by a 7,688 cc, straight-six-cylinder engine. (Worldwide Auctioneers)
Its body was originally installed onto a different Rolls-Royce chassis, but in 1945 was swapped onto the current one in 1945, which has been driven over 70,000 miles.
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Online bids are being accepted ahead of the Worldwide Auctioneers Auburn, Indiana, event on September 3.