Bentley Corniche Coupe. It is a pivotal car in the history of bentley demonstrating that even then this great british marque was at the cutting edge of design and technology comments hallmark. 1971 bentley corniche coupe for sale vehicle details.
In 1971 bentley introduced the corniche. It is a pivotal car in the history of bentley demonstrating that even then this great british marque was at the cutting edge of design and technology comments hallmark. The crewe based marque has since built some truly great british racing cars concurrent to its core business of producing ultra luxurious road cars.
Largely based on the rolls royce corniche the new bentley model was available as a coupe or convertible and was powered by a 6 8l v8 engine the bentley corniche saw just 140 examples produced 63 coupe 77 convertible.
Production of the bentley corniche convertible ended in 1982 but the coupe continued until 1984. It is a pivotal car in the history of bentley demonstrating that even then this great british marque was at the cutting edge of design and technology comments hallmark. This extremely well documented and rare bentley corniche coupe nrx493k was delivered on the 18th august to hr attwood in london 1971 this was the 6th bentley corniche to come off the production line. The 1939 corniche was a clear step in bentley s design language which is evident when set aside the later and now iconic r type continental.
