Chassis number AP325 was the last of the second series of 3-Litre chassis manufactured. Bodied by the renowned Chelsea coachbuilders J Gurney Nutting as a Weymann-style fabric-panelled saloon, the car was delivered by the Gaffikin Wilkinson salesrooms in Colchester in February 1926 to one R S Ruttledge. Curiously, it is last recorded in Dr Clare Hay’s Bentley: The Vintage Years with one H S Lee in 1967, still its owner as of a 1973 registration on file, indicating it appears to have been off-the-radar for many years prior to its rediscovery in 1991. Invoices on file note mechanical restoration performed by Ten Tenths Ltd in 1990—for what would eventually become a dedicated concern set up for the collection of Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason—but it is not known if the musician ever owned the Bentley.

Sympathetically further restored in prior ownership of David Cantor in 2007 to 2008, it retains its original chassis, engine, steering box, and body, with the engine still being equipped with the original-type Smiths starter and carburettor. The bodywork is beautifully finished, with pale green leather upholstery and fitment of Lucas King of the Road headlamps, luggage rack with touring trunk and suitcases, and beaded-edge wheels.

Acquired for the current collection in 2019 and the subject of much mechanical sorting thereafter, the Bentley remains in splendid order, and is an unusually intact and correct example of the famed 3-Litre with most attractive bodywork.