Today, what was once pride of a pop star’s has found an excellent home a long way from Elton’s old stamping ground lucky owner is Rodd L leading man in the profession in faraway Melbourne, Australia Rodd acquired the Bentley in England in 2012 and I fortunate in being able to meet b Rodd and the c the Victorian Stat capital after a Co lockdown kept us for much of 2021. well worth the wait! Rodd tells me so much, clearly full of knowledge about this rare and precious machine. ‘My car is one of just 45 Bentley Corniche series convertibles. This is the with the classic chrome bump bars rather than the rubber c that came with subsequent series.’
The Bentley Corniche convertible is a high-performance car, making around 10% more power than four-door Silver Shadow or T-series Bentley. It is capable of 120m 195kph – a purely academic figure on Australia’s roads given the limit states is just 110kph, or just g70emph. Nevertheless, it must be to know how much power is bonnet if one wants to show pair of heels at the traffic lights!
Rodd goes on to tell me m facts that bring me up to speed on his Corniche. ‘It is a very car even when compared to the Rolls Royce version. In the period from the launch of the Corniche in 1971 to the introduction of the revamped model with rubber bumper facings in
