Ultra rare classic art deco Bentley fit with hand-wound clock could be yours for £300k – after drastic change decade ago

AN ULTRA-RARE classical creation deco Bentley fitted with a hand-wound timepiece could beryllium yours for a whopping £300,000 pursuing a drastic alteration a decennary ago.

The Bentley Mark VI is the lone 1 among 4,000 to person its coachwork completed by Mulliners of Birmingham, a renowned British coachbuilder from Bordesley Green.

After 2010, the car's then-owner replaced its archetypal achromatic colour with the existent 3 shades of grey.

This Drophead Foursome Coupé features a 4.5-litre (4.6) six-cylinder engine.

The exemplary was commissioned by Sir John Black, managing manager of Standard-Triumph (The Standard Motor Company Limited), a car shaper founded successful Coventry, England, successful 1903.

The Bentley features reddish fell upholstery with grey piping and Art Deco-inspired doorway cards.

A hand-wound clock, mounted connected the glovebox supra a concealed instrumentality kit tray, was besides retained.

The car is present being auctioned disconnected by RM Sotheby’s successful London with an asking terms of a whopping £300,000.

“This is an exquisite two-door Mark VI Drophead presented successful three-tone grey implicit reddish hide,” reads the listing.

“It features unsocial coachwork; the sole Mark VI bodied by Mulliners of Birmingham.

“The car is simply a aggregate grant victor and was exhibited successful the post-war Touring people astatine the 2014 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance.

“Further accolades successful its sanction see being named Best successful Class and Most Elegant Open Car astatine Ironstone, Best successful Class and Best of Show astatine the Niello Concours, and Best successful Class astatine Hillsborough.

“It is accompanied by a tray-fitted instrumentality kit, hub spanner, spare wheel, and past record that documents the ownership chain, archetypal physique details, and restoration.

“An exquisite and unsocial mentation of an already-significant Bentley, chassis B342NZ boasts a fascinating backmost communicative to yet marque for a fantastic summation to immoderate collection.”

It follows a 120-year-old ultra-rare sports car that went up for auction with a genuinely eye-watering terms tag.

The vintage centrifugal includes leather seats, broadside and rear brass oil lights, and adjacent a woody steering wheel.

This rarely-seen Rochet-Schneider centrifugal from 1904 has been listed astatine auction for a chill £690,000 - and it comes with an unthinkable backstory.

Produced by Rochet-Schneider, a French institution established successful 1889, the car was primitively sold successful 1904 in France and is fig 45 of the 215 units manufactured that year.

It was past imported to the UK successful 1967, wherever it was owned and cherished by a fistful of classical car enthusiasts, including Denis Wright and Peter Agg, arsenic good arsenic the Tierra Blanca Collection.

'VETERAN-ERA CARS'

Its existent proprietor bought it successful 1991, and successful 2019 it was fixed a thorough work by seasoned specialists astatine Jonathan Wood Ltd successful Essex - with implicit £21,000 worthy of enactment done to the classical car’s engine, steering, transmission, wheels and tyres.

The car's adjacent proprietor volition besides person a broad past file, including a certificate of dating from the Veteran Car Club of Great Britain, a FIVA passport dated 2005, and a Vintage Sports-Car Club eligibility papers dated 2011.

It besides retains respective period-correct accessories, specified arsenic Rejna Hanardini & Cie of Milan Brevetto self-generating acetylene parabolic oval headlights.

However, for added convenience, a discreet and businesslike electrical starter has been installed.

RM Sotheby’s, who is listing the motor, said: "This car is 1 of the astir singular veteran-era cars and a existent rival to Mercedes.

“It has travelled astir 17,000 miles successful implicit 100 seasoned car rallies crossed the UK and Europe nether its existent ownership.

“The existent proprietor confirms that the car has been meticulously maintained and is acceptable for contiguous usage and enjoyment.

"The motor was afloat rebuilt successful 2003 and the car has done astir 7,000 miles since."

It comes aft a concealed postulation of 230 classical motors amassed for 40 years was discovered successful a warehouse and an abandoned religion conscionable past year.

And a one-hundred-year-old classical car dumped successful a store for 4 decades has sold for a whopping price.