- My name is Steve Andrews from Fergus Falls.

I am the current caretaker of a 1957 Bentley s. They were made from 1955 to 1959, and there were about 3,500 of them made.

This one has got a little added twist to it because it's it's left hand drive and they only made 172 of those.

It was about $13,000.

And the equivalent Cadillac at that time, or a top line Cadillac at that time was about $5,000.

So it was pricing pricey.

One of the things that got me very interested in British cars is when I was in the service and I was spent three years at Lake and Heath in England, and so I would see things like this and there was a, a roll 2025 that a major on base had.

It was one of those vehicles that when it went by you would see it, but you wouldn't hear it.

Yeah, this is pretty much like the, the quiet that you, that you kind of expect from a Bentley.

Back in the thirties when they were making, they were advertised as the silent sports car 'cause they were hot, but they just really made a, a point of cutting down the noise.

But they would say, if you want to be driven by a rolls, if you want to drive by a Bentley, rolls Royce owned Bentley since 1931.

And so they used different marketing techniques and everything over the years, but as when it got to this point, 1955, they started doing their own bodies.

That's pretty much the roles Bentley that you associate.

And from, from this angle and from this distance, you can't tell the difference between the two because the only Bentley that you see is on the hubcaps.

But when you get to the front and you can see the grill, the rolls grill is very angular and this is smoother.

The interior is walnut, the outside is a, is walnut, but inset is burled walnut inside.

So from the root, when they did the wood, it was all from the same batch of wood.

So everything was gonna match all the way around.

And then if you lean back in the backseat, look over your shoulder, there's a mirror right there, and I think it's on the passenger side, there's a cigar lighter, And then the dash is also walnut, pretty thin veneer, but it is split in the middle and opened up like a book.

And so you see that blemish on matches, blemishes on both sides, you know, and the, the gauges, the speedometer starts from the top and goes around and comes in for, but it is an inverse going from zero 50 to 110 going looping the opposite way than what you expect.

But the gas gauge has got an interesting twist to it and there's a button, you punch that button and it tells you the oil level of the sum.

They had all sorts of neat things.

Another thing that differentiated a rolls from a Bentley is that on a Bentley, this is the correct paint job with the Shell Gray just doing the roof and the, or the hood and the boot or the roof in the trunk on a Rolls Royce, the Shell Gray would've continued on the top of the, the bonnet.

And this is a front end lubricator, there's a lever underneath the, underneath the dash that every 200 miles, they pump it twice and it lubricates the whole front end windscreen wiper.

This is an oil bath Air filter, and then it goes into a silencer for the air filter and then dual carburetors on the other side.

I've had it, this is the third summer and last two years I put about 2000 miles of summer on it.

On a day like this, you have to be out.

Like I said before, you have a responsibility to take care of it for the next caretaker.