Here is the text and picture from Tues.12.7.11 'Progress Leader', one of a chain of free suburban newspapers. This one circulates in the plush eastern suburbs of Melbourne.
Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor
Here's something you don't see everyday. Shannons auctioned a one-of-a-kind Bentley ute in conjunction with the Australian international Motor Show in Melbourne on Sunday. Based on a 1956 Bentley S1 Saloon, the aristocratic bright yellow Bentley with its bespoke timber load bed comes with a blue-blood history, both before and after its transformation from toffy transport to rural Aussie workhorse. It was purchased new in London from Jack Barclay Limited in Mayfair by Charles Lloyd-Jones, the then-owner of the David Jones retail chain, who later sold it to John Vawser Motors of NSW. It was then was acquired by the vendor, The Right Honourable 6th Earl of Stradbroke Keith Rous, who made the eccentric decision to convert it into a utility, with the work carried out by George Williams of Camperdown, NSW. This year the Earl donated the Bentley Ute to Melbourne's Trinity Grammar School, requesting that it be "used by the school, or to be sold to donate funds to the school". The ute is being offered for sale with no reserve and was expected to sell for between $22 000 and $32 000.