The sale brokered by Kidston SA, an organization based by Simon Kidston, the nephew of Glen Kidston, who gained the 1930 Le Mans 24 Hours on the wheel of a Bentley. 

This automobile is traditionally important because it represents the start of the Bentley legend, and the establishing of the custom of ‘The Bentley Boys’. The likes of Kidston, Clement, Duff and others like Sir Tim Birkin, Dr Dudley Benjafield or one-time Bentley Chairman Woolf Barnato grew to become referred to as The Bentley Boys for his or her hard-charging racing way of life.

Firm founder W.O Bentley mentioned of this group’s antics:

“The general public favored to think about them dwelling in Mayfair flats. Consuming Champagne in nightclubs, enjoying the horses and the Inventory Trade, and beating furiously across the racing tracks on the weekend. Of a number of of them, this was not such an inaccurate image.”