1950 Bentley MkVI Special
Entered from the Aberaeron Collection

Registration No: HUK 500
Chassis No: B38HR
MOT: Exempt

• Current ownership since 1984
• The subject of a bodywork restoration and repaint, interior re-trim and new hood in current ownership
• Offered with old MOT certificates from throughout the decades, old correspondence with the DVLA, a current V5C.

Post-WWII Bentley enthusiasts, wanted a more raw Bentley performance experience, that post war marques offered. With values of Vintage Bentleys pricing the Bentley experience beyond many motoring enthusiasts, if you wanted a more visceral Bentley ownership experience, that excitement could only be found with a ‘built-not-bought’ philosophy. With garages filled with sleeping ‘Standard Steel’ saloons often rotten and uneconomical to repair and restore, there was the saviour in the form of an unbeatable chassis, designed to be married to an enthusiast’s vision, whatever it might have been, often more exciting, offering creative engineering, style and performance. 'Specials' created by privateers, based upon R-Type and MkVI chassis, in particular, have been joined by a cottage industry of coachbuilders throughout the decades, all offering that more visceral, yet elegant journey to the pre-war age of Bentley performance.

First registered on 28^th September 1950, offered here is a MkVI Special finished in Green. In current ownership since 19^th September 1984, today it wears whitewall tyres, with other nods to 1920s-1930s period cars such as the leather bonnet straps and the covered side panels and doors. The interior is finished in Tan with complementing carpeting and embossed Bentley inner door cards. For a Roadster Special it appears to offer plenty of space in the rear for two and has been the subject of a bodywork restoration and repaint, interior re-trim and new hood in current ownership.

Amongst old correspondence within the history file, there are letters regarding logbook changes and letters from Rolls-Royce Motors, regarding obtaining a key, a radiator shell and radiator shutter assemblies for a MkVI chassis. Invoices from throughout 1968-69 refer to a spurt of regular maintenance activity by A. Franks & Sons Ltd, West Bromwich. Work carried out back then, involved overhauling brakes, manifolds, repairing the radio, fettling carburettors respraying some panels. This MkVI Special is offered with some old MOT certificates from throughout the decades, old correspondence with the DVLA, a copy of an old V5 an older V5C and a current V5C.

For more information, please contact:
James McWilliam
james.mcwilliam@handh.co.uk
07943 584760