Description
Uniqueness of the car FIVA identity card History and invoice Complete renovation in 1980 Our Bentley Mark VI Sports Saloon was delivered new in France and put on the road on 29 September 1949. It has had 4 owners, including its current owner since 2017. It is currently registered in Switzerland.
This example is in very good overall condition, thanks in particular to a complete renovation carried out in the 1980s. In Champagne metallic, combined with full chrome trim, a long-range light, a brown leather interior with a slight patina, burgundy woodwork and carpeting, this Bentley Mark VI Sports Saloon is faultless.
Its mechanical performance is just as good. Driven by the 4. 3L 6-cylinder engine offering what is described as 'adequate' power, mated to a 4-speed manual gearbox, this Bentley easily delivers old-fashioned smoothness and power. It has numerous bills and regular servicing, as well as a FIVA identity card.
Options and equipment available on this Bentley Mark VI Sports Saloon include: Original left hand drive steering wheel Central long range headlight Rear vanity mirror Black Bakelite 3-spoke steering wheel Sunroof Model History Summary The Bentley Mark VI Sports Saloon was Bentley's first post-war luxury car. Announced in May 1946 and produced from 1946 to 1952, it was also Rolls-Royce's first car with an all-steel body and the first complete car assembled and finished in their factory. These very expensive cars were a great success, their long-term weakness being the inferior steels imposed by post-war government controls, with the chassis continuing to be supplied to independent coachbuilders. This factory-finished Bentley was named the Bentley Mark VI standard steel sports saloon. This shorter wheelbase chassis and engine was a variant of the 1946 Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith and, with the same standard steel body and larger boot, became the 1949 Silver Dawn. The Mark VI 4 1⁄4 litre used a 4. 3 L (4, 257 cc/ 259 cu in) straight-6 F-head engine. The manufacturer declined to divulge a power rating for the car (other than the old RAC formula tax rating of 29. 4 bhp), but an Autocar magazine road test reprinted in 1950 reported that the higher speed offered "smoothness up to 6 mph (10 km/ h)" and the ability to "climb a hill with a maximum gradient of 1 in 9, complicated by bends". This confirmed the adjective 'sufficient' put forward by the brand.
