Equipment
Marchal headlights, fog lights and dual spotlights, skirts front and rear. An extravagant car with an appropriately extravagant restoration. When restored by Gary Wales it sported red frogskin upholstery and an impudent frog radiator mascot, not so subtly mocking the origins of its coachwork in France. They have been replaced in recent years, perhaps in the hope that less impudence will bring it an invitation back to Pebble Beach where it came as close as any postwar car ever has to winning Best in Show.
Market commentary
Sold by Barrett Jackson in Palm Beach in 2006 from Gary Wales collection for $1,728,000, this is a singular Bentley, and singularly famous as well. Its now even more famous for the value that the Barrett Jackson bidders accorded it. This is huge money even for this exceptional, fabulously restored and infamous Bentley.