Pop art Bentley to be auctioned for charity

By CARSIFU | 18 April 2016


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LONDON: Bentley Motors has teamed up with the godfather of British pop art, Sir Peter Blake, to create a one-of-a-kind Bentley Continental GT V8 S Convertible.

This unique car will be auctioned for charity by Bonhams at the Goodwood Festival of Speed on June 24.

Bentley hired Blake to deliver the world’s first pop art Bentley, drawing on inspiration from the artist’s career in the British pop art movement. Bentley has donated the car to the Care2Save Charitable Trust, which provides palliative and hospice care around the world.

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Blake is best known for designing the sleeve for The Beatles iconic Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album.

The convertible has a St James Red heart motif hand painted onto a Continental Yellow bonnet. Across the exterior of the car, the use of collage bright but clearly defined colour. A St Luke’s Blue - a bespoke colour introduced by Sir Peter, named in homage to Bentley’s local St Luke’s Cheshire Hospice - dominates the cars iconic rear haunches, doors and boot lid, with a British Racing Green lower body, and a Fuchsia pink-coloured radiator shell. The bright paint colours compliment the black exterior brightware and a black hood, incorporating a darker sub-tone while allowing the bright exterior colours to flourish.

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Each seat is trimmed in a different hide colour; Cumbrian Green, Imperial Blue, Newmarket Tan and Hotspur, reflecting more tonal shades of the exterior surfaces.

The same colours are echoed on the sports steering wheel, featuring a Hotspur outer rim, Newmarket Tan inner rim and Cumbrian Green centre, with Imperial Blue stitching. The pink leather gear lever stands out against the centre console, dashboard and interior door panels, all veneered by Bentley in Piano Black.

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Blake’s signature is added onto the fascia panel and embroidered on all seat headrests. Storage cases feature a Piano Black veneer outer but with Continental Yellow and St James Red internal linings to reflect the bonnet colour theme. A treadplate, signifying that this is a Blake design, labelling ‘No. 1 of 1’ finishes the car.

The custom project was performed by Mulliner, Bentley’s custom division.

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