1965 Bentley

• The forty-eight of just sixty-six right hand drive examples built to Design No 2011 by Mulliner/Park Ward
• Delivered new to Mr John Laurence, the chairman of Glasgow Rangers Football Club 
• External costmetic restoration undertaken in 2006 
• Still retains its original leather interior
• In very good mechanical order with extensive history
• Complete with tools and original handbook
• Fitted with air conditioning 

Chassis No BC6XD is the forty-eight of just sixty-six examples built-in right-hand drive to Design No 2011 by Mulliner/Park Ward. It was originally completed in April of 1965, finished in shell grey with blue grey leather and supplied by A&D Fraser Ltd of Glasgow to its first owner, Mr J.C Laurence Esq. Mr Laurence was a very successful businessman in the building industry who employed over 2,000 people at the company’s peak. He was however best known for being the chairman of Glasgow Rangers Football club, a position he took up in 1963. Mr Laurence kept BC6XD for several years and by the year 2000 the car belonged to Mr Palmer who entrusted a noted specialist to repaint the car dark blue in 2006 to the very highest standard. The quality of their work is clear as the car still looks superb almost twenty years later. Air conditioning was also fitted along with restoration of the woodwork and chrome, whilst the original but sound leather interior was retained. The car is in very fine mechanical condition and comes complete with tools, copy chassis cards, an extensive history file and its original handbook. A top-class grand tourer with a very interesting history. 

1962 saw the introduction of the S3 variant of the factory bodied standard steel saloon and at first glance it would appear that the all new S3 was merely an S2 with different headlamps. The introduction of the twin headlamps was clearly the most obvious change, but the differences did not end there. Further changes included the introduction of smaller bumper over riders and the repositioning of the front indicators and side lamps into one single unit on the front wing, resulting in an arguably more attractive appearance. Mechanically speaking the S3 was issued with larger 9:1 compression ratio carburettors, improved power steering to aid smoother movement at parking speed and a Lucas vacuum-advance distributor to aid fuel consumption making it almost identical in mechanical specification to the S3 Continental that was being produced at the same time. Production of the Flying Spur type design was continued onto the S3 Continental chassis and badged as a Mulliner/Park Ward design following the amalgamation of the two companies, although strictly speaking this was always an H.J.Mulliner design.