Chassis No BC73D is the thirty-second of just thirty-nine Bentley R Type Continentals originally fitted with automatic transmission and is the penultimate D Series car that was built.

It was originally completed in March of 1955, finished in Circassian blue with grey leather piped red and matching red carpets.

It was originally supplied by Rolls-Royce Ltd to His Imperial Majesty the Shah of Iran, one of the wealthiest men in the world at that time due to Iran s oil fields, but a man who fell from power some years later and fled his home country for America.

The Shah had a taste for fine motor cars and over the years bought many stand out models, including this handsome Bentley R Type Continental.

It was specified by the Shah to have the larger front seats, slit pockets to the doors, a coat of arms hand painted on each door, a speedometer in kilometres, an oil bath air cleaner and Continental bumpers.