1988 BENTLEY CONTINENTAL

This lot will be auctioned via Iconic Auctioneers at The Classic Sale at CarFest 2026 - Saturday on Saturday the 29th of August, The Wing, Silverstone Circuit, NN12 8TN. The price indicated is the lower auction estimate.

Supplied by Mead of Burnham in March 1988 at a cost of £90,104 in Acrylic White, with matching vinyl roof lined in red cloth, a Brilliant Red leather interior, Bird's-Eye maple woodwork and white hubcabs

It is perhaps understandable therefore that it was later repainted in black, likely Masons, with a double pinstripe, the leather toned down, closer to St James Red, and fitted with a mohair roof in black

Just 570 Bentley equivalents of the Rolls-Royce Corniche Convertible were built and this car is one of 194 Bentley versions of the Rolls-Royce Corniche II

Having been in Jersey from the mid-2000s it was issued with its original registration by the DVLA this year upon its return to the mainland

At the time of cataloguing the odometer reading was 49,862 miles and the advisory-free MOT is valid until February 2027

A receipt for new brake pads and an oil service joins the near two decades of maintenance records by marque specialists Balmoral

The 149 pages of copy records and correspondence evidence the delicate negotiations between Crewe and the supplying dealer to satisfy a customer paying the equivalent of £300,000 in today’s money