DERBY DAY AT VINTAGE & PRESTIGE
Derby Bentley saloons are a varied bunch, as indeed are the open cars. Coachbuilders of the 1930s loved to show what they could do on these low, athletic chassis, and some of the highest peaks of the designer's art and craft were achieved on Derby-built cars. Vintage & Prestige is offering examples from either end of the Derby saloon price spectrum right now, with a 1934 3½ -litre H.J. Mulliner Sports Saloon for £56,000 (above) and a fastback, be-spatted Airline Saloon by William Arnold, also a 1934 3½ -litre car, for £150,000 (below).
The latter car is still in Vancouver, Canada, but V&P's Richard Biddulph is flying over soon to photograph it in greater detail. He says the prices for cars of this era have come back a bit, but when you have something to offer that's genuinely rare or even- on the day we spoke, he had sold another Derby Bentley with amazing semi-sliding doors that fold out and backwards, to lie parallel with the body.
