Project information:

We fitted this car with a new dashboard and floor sections, made up new seat paddings, repaired the seat frames and prepared it technically for the Paris–Peking Rally.

History:

The Bentley 3½ Litre was presented to the public in September 1933, shortly after the death of Henry Royce, and was the first new Bentley model to follow Rolls-Royce’s takeover of the Bentley marque in 1931.

Bentley sold only the bare rolling chassis with engine and gearbox, bulkhead and radiator, ready for coachbuilders to build a body on it to the buyer’s requirements. Many distributors ordered their preferred bodies as showroom stock to enable them to have finished cars ready for immediate sale.

Bentleys of this era are known as Derby Bentleys because they were built at the Rolls-Royce factory in Derby, England. Those from Bentley’s previous independent era are Cricklewood Bentleys.

Source: Wikipedia