{"id":12488,"date":"2019-10-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/bentley-mark-vi-james-young-coup-2\/"},"modified":"2020-10-08T11:28:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T11:28:07","slug":"bentley-mark-vi-james-young-coup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/bentley-mark-vi-james-young-coup-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bentley Mark VI James Young Coup\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After the end of World War 2 Rolls-Royce and Bentley started to develop a new model. It was a four-door luxury sedan that made its debut in 1946 as the Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith and Bentley Mark VI, with the Bentley variant having a shorter wheelbase and a partially independent body design from factory, making it the brand’s first model with own bodywork. This variant was given the unglamorous name Standard Steel Saloon. The necessary sheet metal parts were produced by Pressed Steel Ltd., but Rolls-Royce and Bentley also kept the possibility from the pre-war era and offered bare chassis that could be sent to the coachbuilders chosen by customers, for example Hooper, H.J. Mulliner or James Young. However, only about 20 percent of the customers used this option. The engine used was a 4 1\/4 liter inline six-cylinder, of which the exact performance data was never disclosed. From 1951 the displacement was increased to 4.5 liters. A total of 5,202 Mark VI came off the production line at the new Crewe production site, which was used during the war for the assembly of aircraft engines and afterwards also for vehicle production.

James Young created an exceptionally designed Coup\u00e9 under the functional abbreviation ‘C10M’. Based on the chassis number B495CD, this vehicle was built for Richard Strauss of Strauss, Turnbull & Co., starting in June 1948. In October 1948 the finished vehicle was shown at the stand of James Young at the Earl’s Court Motor Show in London. In contrast to other designs of the time, the fenders were integrated almost seamlessly into the body. Slim pillars hold the slightly backward curved roof in the front area, while the rear window shows a retractable sunshade. The showcar from London was followed by three more cars in the same design. B495CD finally rolled into the garage of Richard Strauss in December 1948 and was used by him until 1953.<\/p>\n\n\n

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