Picture yourself in John Lennon’s “Psychedelic Rolls”

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Attention car buffs. Attention Beatles fans. Attention lovers of nostalgia—especially in the psychedelic realm.

Rolls-Royce, in celebration of the 50th anniversary year of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Band, is releasing images of John Lennon's so-called "Psychedelic Rolls," a tricked out Rolls-Royce Phantom V which debuted shortly before the Fab Four's eighth studio album. Ars is publishing a few of those photos and others of the 1965 vehicle because, well, they have prompted me to imagine driving with Lennon—one of my heroes—as we drift by tangerine trees and marmalade skies.

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