Bentleybob 42: Bentley Estoril by Park Ward

[bentleybob]

Tell me all about it for a point: make, type, by whom etcetera.

[bentleybob]

Up?

[bentleybob]

And so to the pros...

[Allemano]

Bentley by Pinin Farina?

[Carnut]

is it a Bentley, bob?!

[Wendax]

Hooper-bodied Bentley?

[Allemano]

..or maybe Abbott?

[woodinsight]

Bentley with a Park Ward body?

[barrett]

I have it as the Bentley Estoril by Park Ward, 1949. One of the styling prototypes for the proposed replacement for the Mk VI.

[bentleybob]

Yep, 7-B-VII, the only built Bentley Estoril Saloon by Park Ward. It was far too heavy at 40 1/2 cwts, and was not so much a replacement prototype for the Mark VI as an experiment of the so called 'New Look' of slabsided cars. It also had the original concept of the traditional radiator dispensed with. Though comfortable, and used by company VIPS until 1951, it was slow and cumbersome, and never a serious alternative for anything, and so it was scrapped as early as 1951. Barrett gets the point as the most complete answer, of course.