One of the most beautiful post-war Bentley designs ever made, the 1951 Park Ward Mark VI Drophead Coupe! Park Ward, the coachbuilder was the Rolls-Royce and Bentley company owned coachbuilder. This is a very, very unusual and rare car.
Beatiful Fade-away fender styling on a beautifully restored car!
Delightful!
Beautiful chrome and trim, foglamps, and badge bar
The Flying “B”. The chrome plating is in excellent condition
This shot gives an idea of the high quality of the paint and bodywork.
Beautiful leather, lovely steering wheel, and fabulous wood accents. The woodwork was done by the well known wood specialist, Ron Lawless, and it is spectacular!
The overview of the driver’s seat.
Here’s the view over the hood – a good view, I think you’ll agree!
Here’s the top in the up position. the top is fresh and nice looking, and color matched to the car!
The wood trim and dashboard is incredibly nice.
More beautiful dashboard. Note the inconspicuously mounted modern radio below the dash.
The inner top liner and trim and sunshades are in beautiful condition!
Excellent and soft leather, with nice grey piping.
More beautiful leather in the rear compartment.
Everywhere you look on this car it’s pretty!
Luxurious, no?
Beautiful and stylish doorpanel – done in leather, with the lovely wood accents.
Clean doorjambs. This car was restored to a high standard.
Park Ward body plate.
Here’s the Chassis Plate, B100KM. the car has a California License plate to match!
And here is the 4.3 Litre six cylinder engine. It runs great. Indeed, it successfully ran the 2007 Hong Kong to Beijing Rally, a distance of 2,500 miles. It should be noted that this tour was conducted on paved roads at normal speeds, in keeping with the car! ( I make that distinction to prevent any confusion with the Beijing to Paris rally, which was very hard on the cars, being more like an off-road race than a tour )
Twin SU carburetors. The engine is pretty clean, but not quite show detailed, as you can see in these photos. Also note the Bijur style automatic chassis lubricator mounted on the firewall.
Some more detail of the right side of the engine compartment, showing the generator, radiator, etc.
Note the mounted flashlight on the firewall.
The trunk is nicely finished, and the chrome hinge / spring assemblies are beautiful.
Here’s the jack with retaining strap
Here’s the jack handle and hub wrench
Detail of the trunk supports. I love the little details like this on custom bodied cars, they really made an effort to make every single thing look great.
Lovely styling combined with excellent restoration quality.
