This car was first registered on 6th August 1965, having been delivered new to its first owner, Lady Bird.

Lady Bird was an heiress to the fortunes of the eponymous custard empire and later in life lived at Horton Manor, where she gained quite a reputation locally for being endearingly eccentric – not least because she drove a pink Rolls-Royce.

The car we have here for you today is every bit as rare and eccentric as that pink Rolls-Royce.

Why? Because it started out in life as a Bentley S3 Saloon and is now, as you have no doubt discerned, a four-door drophead.

We don’t know when or by whom the saloon-to-drophead conversion work was carried out but we can attest that it was evidently done to a high standard by people who knew what they were doing.

When new, the car was ‘Astral Blue’ over ‘Shell Grey’.

Today, it is ‘Caribbean Blue’ over ‘Georgian Silver’, with hand-painted coachlines along the flanks and around the hub caps.

There’s no doubt about it - this is a striking and very...