1921 Bentley 3-Liter

Your chance to own a piece of automotive history will take place this August at the 2011 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance. Auction company Gooding & Company will be selling what’s believed to be the very first production Bentley, a 1921 Bentley 3-Liter with chassis number 3. Bentley originally built two experimental cars with chassis numbers ‘EXP 1’ and ‘EXP 2’ before the 1921 model that we see here. The car with chassis EXP 1 no longer exists, while EXP 2 was retained by Bentley. The third car was sold to a man named Welshman Ivor Llewelyn who just so...