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A Century of Classic Cars

Our lives can be cataloged in many different ways. Loves found and lost. Places lived. Memorable travels. The arc of a career.

For Madeleine Pennoyer of Flat Rock, nearly a century of living lends itself to stories almost too numerous to recount. But one constant throughout her life has been a love of exceptional cars. Madeleine was born in England and acquired her love and appreciation of fine cars from her father, Bernard Bradford. She recalls traveling the roads of southern England as a young girl in the family’s pale blue Rolls Royce.

Ninety years later, Madeleine has her own Rolls Royce - completing automotive bookends to an extraordinary life. Here are a few of the classics that filled the time between.