Readers Rides….1951 Bentley Mark VI
Submitted by Auto Restoration 101 Blog
This is a really nice car that was just finished up this past summer for one of my customers. I had always wondered why Mike called the car “Miss Marple”. I recently asked him to write up some history on the car and he sent me this great story.
Sometime in the fall of 1971, close friends saw an ad in “Antiques” magazine for a 1951 Bentley Mark VI for sale in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. The owner was an antique dealer, but the ad was fetching and immediately caught the eye of the lady of the house. This couple was a pair of characters of the first class! They were known as Grandma And Grandpa to everyone, related or not, because most of their friends, like me, were much younger than they were. I would have been 26 at the time and they both 63.
Grandpa said “ok” to Grandma wanting the car, so plans were put in motion. Grandma, her daughter and a female friend decided to go get the car and drive it home to Wichita. Yes, 3 women!
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