How often do they change the classic Car on the Royal promenade on Oasis Of The Seas?

[stripey2000]

I've been looking at many photos of the Royal Promenade over the last few weeks and they span from her first sailing to the present day and have noticed a few changes of the classic car parked/displayed there. Anyone know how often is changed or rotated out for a different one?

[Daghis]

As far as I knew, the cars were permanent fixtures and weren't swapped out once installed onto a ship.

 

They are different on each ship, though, and perhaps you saw different ships' Royal Promenades.

[Ken at the beach]

I've been looking at many photos of the Royal Promenade over the last few weeks and they span from her first sailing to the present day and have noticed a few changes of the classic car parked/displayed there. Anyone know how often is changed or rotated out for a different one?

 

Have all the pictures been of the same ship? I wouldn’t have thought that they would change the car.

[stripey2000]

I've definitely seen at least 2 different ones on Oasis of The Seas for sure. Perhaps they change them only at Dry Dock intervals?

[A&L_Ont]

Have all the pictures been of the same ship? I wouldn’t have thought that they would change the car.

 

It would be took big of a job, even with no engine and limited structural parts. I suspect the pics were of different Oasis RP.

 

Edit to add, it was the same car after drydock and if it were to change that would have been the time.

[Ken at the beach]

I've definitely seen at least 2 different ones on Oasis of The Seas for sure. Perhaps they change them only at Dry Dock intervals?

Are you sure it’s Oasis, many times google images may list the picture as one ship when in reality it is a different ship.

[Daghis]

Are you sure it’s Oasis, many times google images may list the picture as one ship when in reality it is a different ship.

There's probably truth in this. I just did a Google Images search for "royal caribbean royal promenade car" and I saw pictures of the cars on lots of ships' Royal Promenades.

[Beachammo]

Have all the pictures been of the same ship? I wouldn’t have thought that they would change the car.

Probably did a search for "Oasis" and Google brought up all Oasis Class ships.

 

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[stripey2000]

Aaaahhh ok you guys are probably right. i just trawled through a load of Oasis Of Seas Youtube videos from 09 to 18 and saw the same car on them all! Must have been other Royal Promenade's cars I saw on the pics. Thanks anyway :D:D

[John&LaLa]

It's not Classic, it's Plastic. 😉

 

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[stripey2000]

So it's not even a genuine motor? Just a plastic model? Oh heck, I thought it Was the real deal. Hoodwinked!

[Tin can]

Apparently the car comes from early designs for the promenade where the architect made a model of the promenade to show the RCI Executives what it would look like and he put a model car in it give a sense of the size.

 

The car the architect used was a favourite of the chairman at the time who thought it was such a good idea that he donated his own car. The car therefore was real for this ship (others my well be plastic) and it had to be craned in and the promenade built around it.

 

...... don't ask me how I know this, I normally can't remember what I did last week but I'm sure this was the answer at one of the Captains Q & A's I've been to.

[Capt_BJ]

November 4, 2009

(4:56 p.m.) -- While posting our exclusive three-part series of photos of Oasis of the Seas last week -- on the day Royal Caribbean celebrated the ship's release from STX Europe's shipyard in Turku, Finland -- we stumbled across an intriguing photo (the fifth slide in our Oasis of the Seas Photos, Part 2: Scenes from a Party slideshow). In what seemed like a fun idea at the time, we decided to quiz you on your car knowledge, asking for answers to this question: What is the make and model of the antique-looking car on the Royal Promenade?

 

 

Indeed, Cruise Critic readers really are car buffs if the response to the impromptu quiz -- 300 entries and climbing -- is an indication. We loved the answers: some vague and glamorous, others right on point (and equally glamorous). Many responses were cars most of us have heard of, such as Rolls-Royce's Silver Cloud and Phaeton, Buggatti, Duesenberg, Morgan Roadster, Packard Roadster and more -- all terrific suggestions.

 

 

However, the most authoritative of the bunch came from fans of the obscure (to me) Auburn Automobile Company (which, I learned, also owned and made Duesenberg vehicles). Take this note, from Cruise Critic reader Aron Goldman: "The car is a beautiful Auburn Boattail Speedster Circa 1935. This is one of the prettiest cars of all time." Bob Gatreau was even more convincing: "My guess is an Auburn Boattail Speedster. Either a 1935 (model 851) or 1936 (model 852)."

 

 

Just to be sure, however, we decided to put the question to the test at Royal Caribbean. "I can confirm that it is a 1930 Auburn Speedster," said a cruise line spokeswoman.

 

 

 

 

 

Not so fast -- the mystery continues. After receiving a tip from a reader and doing some more digging, we found out Auburn didn't even make a 1930 Speedster. In fact, the Oasis car is not even an antique. It's actually a replica of a 1936 Auburn Boattail Speedster that was built this year by Largo, Florida-based Speedster Motorcars.

 

Jeff Akins, a company vice president, told Cruise Critic today that "the purpose of companies like ours that build replicas is to provide the customer with a vehicle that looks like an original old car -- but is built to be driven daily, on the street, with all the modern conveniences you'd expect from a modern vehicle." Cost is a cool $120,000, give or take, and the company builds an average of 20 per year.

 

In Oasis of the Seas' case, however, Royal Caribbean gave Speedster Motors craftsmen a special mandate: More art, less car. Says Akins, "The basic car that's on the ship is representative of what we build and it has a modern suspension system underneath, with a replica body. That's a body that's made of fiberglass instead of steel so it's a lot lighter. Royal Caribbean just needed it to look the part, so there's no motor, no transmission, nothing that will make it go.

 

"When you turn on the ignition key nothing will happen," he reinforces. "But you can sit in it."

 

 

 

Back to our quiz: Now that the make and model has been confirmed by Speedster Motors, we feel confident in awarding our prize. Or, shall I say prizes. Chuck Grigg was not only the first to answer correctly, but he also was one of the few to distinguish between a real car -- and Auburn-as-art. Kudos! A Cruise Critic fanny pack is winging its way to you.

 

He got his answer in just minutes ahead of Antti Metsola, who told us, too, that "the car is an Auburn Boattail Speedster. To be accurate, it's actually a replica car made brand-new by Speedster Motorcars in Florida, USA." Antti signed his email with this tag: "from Finland, where the ship was just made."

 

We're giving Antti a prize, too.

 

And thanks to all of those who sent in answers, right, wrong or otherwise. It's been an education.

 

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[cruiserdudebobby8]

Could have been oasis or Allure

 

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