The Rolls-Royce Owners Club (Lake Michigan Region) is taking its annual Spring Tour through the Janesville/Brodhead area this coming weekend, driving through and stopping at various venues along the way of Highways 11, 59 and 213.

One of the venues the car club will be taking a tour of is the Wisconsin Wagon Company, located in Janesville close to the Lincoln-Tallman House which they will also be touring, as well as having a dinner at its Carriage House.

Besides the Janesville destinations, they will be taking a tour of a working farm in the Brodhead area and the Kelch Air Museum.

The cars range from pre-war models (1939 and older) to current models including Flying Clouds, Silver Spirits, Bentleys, Bentley Flying Spurs and other models from both Rolls-Royce and Bentley.

Like so many other clubs and organizations, the group was sidelined for a year and did not take any tours last year due to COVID.  This year they vowed to get back on the road with their vintage and late-model cars and take a tour of America’s Heartland.

According to James Carlini, the event chairman, “The big difference with the Rolls-Royce Owners Club and other car clubs is that our motto is: ’Our cars are made to be driven and not trailered to meets and events.’”

Rolls-Royce was founded in Great Britain in 1906 and its iconic hood ornament, the Spirit of Ecstasy, was affixed to all cars manufactured from 1911 to the present. They were regarded as “the Best Cars built in the World” and still retain that distinction among royalty, captains of industry and celebrities. Rolls will customize a car to any customer’s requests, building it by hand, and have over 44,000 paint colors to choose from. They purchased Bentley, a car noted for its triple wins at Le Mans and other early racing tracks, in 1931.

If you happen to see them on the road, you will see some very distinct, regal, and fast cars, with some Bentleys, which are noted for their speed and racing, that can do 204MPH.