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Bentley Camargue

1985, SCBYJ000XFCH10150, gray

This Bentley Camargue is a one-off, a car that has been produced only once. The car was made as an order of a customer and is the same car as the Rolls-Royce Camargue of that year of manufacturing, except for the badges and the grille. The bonnet that was used on the normal Rolls-Royce Camargue and that was made for the 10 centimetre wider grille, was also used on this Bentley. So there was to be made a unique Bentley-grille for this car.

For a long time I thought that the car below was the one and only Bentley Camargue. I told even so on this website. Later I discovered (I was told) that this car was the Delta 1 (D1), the very first Camargue that was built as a prototype and that was not provided with a chassisnumber.
The first official experimental Camargue was code-named D1 (project "Delta"). The car was finished in 1972 and had a Bentley grille. The Bentley grille was less protruding when it still was an experimental car and beside that the initial plan was to produce a high performance Bentley version with a turbo under the bonnet. Yet the Camargue was designed as a Rolls-Royce with a 10 centimetre wider grille than on the Silver Shadow. On September 21st 1982 the car was deleted with more than 62,000 miles of history.