1964 Bentley S3

This Bentley S3 of the penultimate year of manufacture, 1964, has been in the collection of just two owners since at least the late 1960s. A receipt dating back to the 5th of January, 1970 for service work at Rolls-Royce Ltd., Willesden, NW10, in the name of the previous owner, Mr. Harold Edward Pope, of High Wycombe, Bucks, is where the provenance begins. In a very substantial file of receipts and correspondence, we are able to formulate the history of the car from that time. While in Mr. Pope’s ownership there are a number of receipts for service work at various specialists and a £10,000 paint job at Laurence Kayne of Berkeley Square where the top half of the car was painted to match the bottom half, in Rolls-Royce Garnet red. It stayed with Mr. Pope until sold to Mr. Zubin Mehta, Maestro of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in October of 1984. At that time, it was shipped to New York and stored at the Philharmonic premises. Through 1985, there are numerous receipts from Carriage House for service work to engine, gearbox, brakes, suspension, etc. In 1991, the car was transported to Mr. Mehta’s home in Brentwood, California, where it has been ever since.