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M. Allen Swift and the longest privately owned Rolls-Royce in history

. Allen Swift faced a difficult decision in 1928. Shortly before his 26th birthday, his father had made him a deal: Stay in the family’s gold leaf business and watch your two younger brothers go off to college at MIT, and you can have any car you want.

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