I’d like to share with you a story of how I became the custodian of a Bentley, following in the footsteps of my father, who has owned his Rolls-Royce 20hp for 64 years.
I grew up as young lad in the 1980s with a father who had a 1927 ‘Twenty’ Park Ward limousine which he acquired in the late Fifties at the age of 21. It was acquired in barn-find condition and my father restored it, getting it back on the road, at least for a few years. Like most young lads I was absolutely mad about cars so I’m sure you’ll appreciate how frustrated I was at having never seen it - the car had been laid up in a barn somewhere all my life. All I had seen were photos, and by the time I became a teenager I was beginning to wonder if it even existed! That was