Bentley Reintroduces Four Heritage Colors Dating All The Way Back To The 1930s

To celebrate the 70th anniversary of Bentley’s design department, the team went looking through its archives and found four colors from its back catalog that it thought were worth bringing back.

Returning to the Bentley color palette are Dove Grey, Claret, Old English White, and Oxford Blue. The colors cover more than 30 years of brand history, with the oldest, Dove Grey (seen in the lead image and the image directly below), dating back to the Derby-era Bentleys of the 1930s.

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Claret, meanwhile, was created specifically for use on Queen Elizabeth II’s Golden Jubilee Bentley in 2002, but it was inspired by Royal Claret, which Bentleys used in royal service have worn since the 1940s.

Old English White has served Bentley since the 1950s. The solid white finish is simply timeless, says Bentley, and worthy of any of its cars. Finally, Oxford Blue is the darkest blue in the company’s palette. Created in the ’60s, it could also be found on Diamond Series cars in 1998.

Bentley’s design team also found that 15 of the colors still offered through Mulliner‘s Personal Commissioning Guide today have been in service for more than 50 years. One of them, Sage Green, was applied to the brand’s latest press fleet vehicle, a Flying Spur V8. It dates back to the 1950s and provides bold contrast to the “Blackline” exterior package, which darkens the flying B mascot, radiator vanes, matrix grilles, side window surrounds, and more.

If you’re in the mood for something more modern, though, Bentley and Mulliner are more than happy to accommodate with a wide variety of colors, which it claims is among the most extensive in the automotive world.