1949 Bentley Mk VI Special
This square mesh front grille and yellow driving lights signal from the front that this isn’t a standard Mk VI.
The chassis (supplied with factory coachwork in late 1948) was stripped at some point before 1981, when it served as a seminar display unit for Adams & Oliver, and surfaced in California in 2006 as a bare rolling chassis and engine. It has since been fitted with a custom open body in blue.
The coachwork includes a folding black canvas roof and sits on 21-inch black-painted wire wheels wearing Blockley Specials, secured by chrome two-eared knock-offs.
The 4¼-litre straight-six, believed to be original to the chassis, drives through a four-speed manual gearbox.
Bentley built approximately 5,200 Mk VIs between 1946 and 1952; the substantial majority carried the standard Pressed Steel factory body, making rebodied examples a small fraction of surviving cars. No factory record or coachbuilder attribution accounts for this body style, and the car appears to be a one-off construction.
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