For Sale: 1996 Bentley Brooklands in Carey, Illinois

Here is an extremely beautiful presenting Bentley Brooklands Long Wheel Base ("LWB") sedan finished in Wildberry pearl (rich wine-purple colour) with cream Connolly hides and wildberry/burgundy accents to include dash, carpets and seat piping. The twin fine lines to the waist-rails are hand-painted in matching cream. The Brooklands is powered by a 6.75 litre Rolls-Royce designed V8 engine with the Bosch fuel injecton system which provides ultra smooth idle and touring. Being a Brooklands it has the 4 large round headlamps from the Turbo R and the full length centre console with gear-shifter also from its big brother. The LWB Brooklands is quite rare. Out of the already low production run of some 700 left hand drive Bentley Brooklands made, only some 100 were Long Wheel Base - that's less than 15%. The Bentley Brooklands model was initially released as a special edition version which basically sported many of the features of the Bentley Turbo R, but without the turbo. It is rather unusual to find a LWB Brooklandsin North America with most of the series imported being standard saloons. This is a late 58,000 series SZ so it has many significant upgrades over the 81-95 cars and even the first series Brooklands of 1993, including the very desirable centre console positioned floor shift. By the 1996 year, Rolls-Royce and Bentley saw all the pertinent design improvements that made these "last of the series" the best. Operationally, the most notable being the transgression to Bosche electronics, eliminating the problematic Lucas electrical ("Prince of Darkness") system that plagued the earlier series. It also saw a completely revised dash with updated AC system and, along with a host of engineering and technical upgrades, has the full covered engine bay offering an up-to-date design appearance. Cosmetically, the car has the revised and more integrated front and rear bumpers with the more streamlined front grille. This is then set off with the more modern alloy wheels which easily identify the car as 96-and-onwards. With all these significant changes, the car is known as the "50,000 series" model, in technical circles. This Brooklands is well known to us having been previously owned by a client of ours. The car has recently been through our shop to bring services and maintenance up to date. The car has travelled a very modest 63,000 miles. The paint on the car is in outstanding condition being completely original without any repaint whatsoever. It is deep in lustre and shine. There are hardly any notable chips and marks other than the most very minor ones here and there, but these are few and only show if one looks hard. Mentioned more out of "open disclosure" than pointing them out. There is a minor ding at the front right wheel arch and front passenger door that we intentionally did not address given the fact the car sports all its original paint. We did not want to change that status. The dent is minor in nature and does not show in the photos. Otherwise, the body and paint presents absolutely beautifully as the photos portray. Rubbers, mouldings, badges and external fittings are all in excellent condition. The interior of this car is stunning. The cream/Magnolia combination with the rich wildberry/burgundy piping, top-roll and carpets are stupendously beautiful. The Connolly leather shows beautifully and is completely original. It has never been messed with and remains very soft and supple without any signs of even typical wear. Perhaps a little on the driver cushion bolster but certainly nothing objectionable. The wood throughout is excellent and can comfortably be described as near perfect showing almost no lacquer cracks, chips or marks. And, this particular example has a very rich and deep display of grain and knots which only the world's finest burl walnut can offer. Carpets, seats, dash, front top-roll, rear parcel shelf and fixtures are truly excellent and I best encourage you to look at all the photos to ful