1965 Bentley

• The fifty-second of just fifty-eight cars built in right hand drive to Design No 2006
• Shipped to the US in the 1970s and restored there with coachwork and interior works
• Supplied in 2016 by Frank Dale to the present owner
• Significant works over the past decade carried out on a no expense spared basis
• Complete with tools and handbook
• Freshly reviewed and prepared by our workshop team
• A beautiful example of this increasingly popular and fashionable model

Chassis No BC92XE is the fifty-second of just fifty-eight cars built-in right-hand drive to Design No 2006 by Mulliner/Park Ward on the S3 Continental chassis. It was originally supplied by Rippon Bros Ltd of Huddersfield to Parkland Mfg. Co Ltd of Bradford in Yorkshire, finished in valentines blue with an off-white leather interior and was delivered in November of 1965. The car became part of an extensive collection in California in the 1970’s and remained in the US until 2014. Whilst stateside Chassis No BC92XE was restored with works including a full coachwork restoration and a repaint in dark blue, a new interior in tan, woodwork restoration and a full mechanical review. It was purchased by the penultimate owner to date in 2011 who lived in the Boston area and was sent back to us in the UK in the summer of 2016. We then supplied it to the present owner in September that year. He immediately dispatched the car to Ristes in Nottingham who prepared it for him and have maintained it for him ever since on a no expense spared basis. He had covered around 7,000 miles in BC92XE in the ensuing years until its recent return to us once again. It comes complete with a handbook, tools (small and large) and comes freshly serviced and tested in our workshop to insure reliability, correct performance and enjoyable motoring for the next fortunate owner. Chassis No BC92XE is in our opinion a top-class example of this increasingly popular model.

By late 1962 the success of the S Series Continental Bentleys entered its third and final chapter, with the introduction of the S3 Continental. The major cosmetic change was the introduction of the twin headlight system, providing Bentley drivers with more illumination. Mechanically speaking the S3 Continental was very similar to the S2 Continental but benefited from having larger carburettors fitted and an upgraded power steering system. The success of the Vilhelm Koren designed Bentley S2 Continental had pleased the powers that be at Park Ward and his design was adapted for the S3 chassis, with the introduction of twin headlights. The coachwork did not lend itself happily to horizontal headlights, so they were instead positioned on a slight slant. Vilhelm Koren originally designed both a fixed head coupe and a drophead coupe on the S2 Continental chassis, but the fixed head coupe was never produced. However, on the S3 Continental chassis both designs were available, with both fixed head (Design No 2035) and drophead (Design No 2006) being produced in very similar numbers.