About Tough to Crack car puzzle #139: Bentley Korea

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Yes, you knew Bentley’s stillborn coupe concept named ‘Korea’. The Silver Shadow/T-type based two-door was styled by a freelance draughtsman named Vilhelm Koren in 1960. Steve Bousfield: “The car was intended as the 'Continental' version of the proposed saloon code named Burma. As the Burma project was cancelled, Korea didn't progress beyond a single prototype" (both of them here). Bernard Correge knew Koren was Norwegian but believes that not one but two prototypes envisaged “before the project was abandoned as being too modern, too innovative and too expensive.” Alan Spencer added: “Koren was a stylist at Crewe, working under the better-known John Blatchley. Koren had previously designed the Park Ward S2 Continental. After management pulled the plug on the basis it was too modern and too expensive, it sat around at the factory until sadly, it was scrapped in 1970.” All of it is of course correct, but this time it’s Vintage who won our sympathy by writing down his thoughts before giving it a good old search: “Rear bumper and overriders look like a 60’s Rolls Shadow, so to do the hub caps. Rear light treatment from HJ Mulliner Park Ward, and similar to an Alvis body designed by Park Ward – based loosely on the 16 TC21s (designated TC108G) styled by Swiss coachbuilder Graber and built in Loughborough by busmaker Willowbrook in 1956-57. Best I can do from Pinterest… 1961 Prototype Korea 61-B Sports Coupé by Park Ward proposed as a Continental version of the Burma prototype.” You’ve done well enough to earn this week’s price Vintage. Congratulations!

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