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Who Car You? Rolls-Royce recreate Keith Moon's famous birthday car in pool stunt. Rolls-Royce has marked 100 years of its flagship Phantom model with a tribute to one of rock music’s most enduring myths, the night The Who’s drummer Keith Moon allegedly drove a Rolls-Royce into a hotel swimming pool. The story, said to have taken place at the Holiday Inn in Flint, Michigan, on Moon’s 21st birthday in 1967. Accounts of what really happened differ: Moon himself later insisted it was a Lincoln Continental belonging to another guest while others claimed no car entered the pool at all. Yet the legend has proved so irresistible Rolls-Royce have now recreated it at Plymouth’s Tinside Lido, submerging a disused Phantom prototype in the Art Deco pool overlooking the English Channel. The location was chosen for its musical connections: it appeared in a 1967 Beatles photograph taken during filming for Magical Mystery Tour, the same year John Lennon revealed his hand-painted yellow Phantom V. Rolls-Royce has been closely linked to the music world. The Phantom has been a favourite of stars including Liberace, Elvis Presley, Elton John, Lennon, and Pharrell Williams.