How’s This For Luxury? (Mar, 1956)
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Source: Mechanix Illustrated ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Mar, 1956
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Source: Mechanix Illustrated ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Mar, 1956
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How’s This For Luxury?
This Englishman’s car is literally his castle— a plush, sumptuous $14,000 dream on wheels.
PLUSH seems a woefully inadequate word to describe the Bentley Countryman Saloon, the fabulously luxurious auto owned by Mr. A. Walker of Watchers, Hastemere, Surrey, England, With whom Uncle Tom is shown in the photo above. The Bentley’s rear seat armrests have concealed cocktail shakers and glasses, canapes, nuts and olives. Two fold-out tables on the rear seat allow you to savor these goodies in lazy leisure. Converting the seats to beds, you have a six-foot, six-inch station wagon—a dream on wheels.
That’s equivalent to about $107,000 today, I think. I do like the foldout tables!
Comment by Cleanser — May 23, 2008 @ 7:20 am
I like there is a little drinks table by the steering wheel for when “traffic’s heavy”.
Comment by Michael Patrick — May 23, 2008 @ 10:52 am
This was a long time before MADD.
Comment by mc — May 23, 2008 @ 6:50 pm
Is that 4 bottles of Gin in the top pic on p2 ? O_o
Comment by cATFLAP — May 24, 2008 @ 4:11 am
nice that a bently has seats that become beds, because a hotel would be excessive!
Comment by K!P — May 26, 2008 @ 5:41 am
Gotta love British eccentics.
It also makes me wonder how many filthy rich American folks were doing the same (or even way beyond) at the same time.
Comment by MKremer — May 26, 2008 @ 3:29 pm