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Est: £700,000 - £1,000,000

1956 Bentley S1 Continental Drophead Coupé by Park Ward

United Kingdom • 31 Oct 2026

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AI Listing Summary

A superb 1955 Bentley S1 Continental Drophead Coupé, boasting a recent extensive restoration by P&A Wood and multiple concours wins. This RHD example has been in the same family for 47 years and is considered one of the finest of its type.

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Condition 

9

Class winner, superb restoration

/ 10

Transmission:

Automatic

Chassis No:

BC33BG

Odometer:

[Odometer Reading]

Reg Number:

[Reg Number]

RHD/LHD:

RHD

To Be OFFERED AT AUCTION at RM Sothebys' The London Auction event, 31 October 2026.

£700,000 - £1,000,000 GBP Offered from 47 years of loving, enthusiast family ownershipSuperbly restored by noted firm P&A WoodClass award-winner at the 2023 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance; winner of its class at the Rolls-Royce Enthusiasts Club Annual Rally in 2024One of 58 right-hand-drive Drophead Coupés to style number 700, with fully custom aluminium coachworkOriginally delivered to noted motoring enthusiast Alfred James McAlpineAmong the most superb survivors of a highly regarded design on an exceptional chassis Unlike the majority of Bentley drophead coupés produced in the post-war era, Park Ward’s body style number 700 for the S1 Continental was not an “adaptation” from factory saloon stampings.

Rather, it was a fully custom body, built from the ground up in aluminium by the revered coachbuilder on the exceptionally rigid, magnificently well-tuned Continental chassis, a renowned “gentleman’s ...

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£280,808

Lowest Price (Since 2020)

£722,848

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£1,533,641

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