Istorie
Announced in May 1946 and produced from 1946 to 1952 it was also both the first car from Rolls-Royce with all-steel coachwork and the first complete car assembled and finished at their factory.
This Bentley was 'best of class' on Pebble Beach and class winner on several RROC Memorials like Meadowbrook.
Full description
This model was bodied by Graber's craftsmen with Drophead Coupe bodywork. This car was commissioned in 1947 by a Swiss industrialist, one Mr. E. Rueegg of Pfaeffikon. It is one of only 35 Bentleys ever bodied by Graber. Mr. Rueegg ordered the car via the Geneva-based Bentley dealer Perrot, Duval & Cie. and must have been very pleased with Graber's work, as he ordered two other Bentleys from the Bernese coachworks, one in 1951 and another in 1954. The car was equipped with specially designed glass which retracts light to avoid glare, as well as Marchal indicator and front- and side-lamps.
The car was eventually exported to the United States, with handwritten notes inside the original Bentley handbook indicating its acquisition by one W.S. Endres of Charleston, West Virginia in 1963.
It was finally restored in 1990, still in American ownership, by E.F. Murphy and D&D Classic and remained in high point status thereafter. The Graber Bentley competed successfully in several concourses d'elegance. This Bentley was 'best of class' on Pebble Beach and class winner on several RROC Memorials like Meadowbrook. Badges on the car also indicate it was awarded First Place Premier status by the Classic Car Club of America.
This car has covered 81,006 km.
