A few years ago, David Irvine of Team Bentley Spotting posted about a Rolls-Royce Corniche Saloon converted to Bentley specification:



Here is his post: http://www.bentleyspotting.com/2011/01/other-way.html
Further investigation on the excellent rrsilvershadow.com website identifies it as chassis #CRH21998, the factory development car for dashboard and air-conditioning updates introduced on the 1976 "Corniche 1A" and then fitted to the revised 1977 model year and later cars.
Here are more photos: http://www.rrsilvershadow.com/EProd/Prod21501.htm
However, there is more...
A Brooks Monaco auction catalogue from 1997 describes #CRH21998 as ex-Monteverdi Car Collection - the museum of Peter Monteverdi, founder of Monteverdi Automobile and a Swiss Rolls-Royce, Bentley and Ferrari distributor.
Below is a scan from the catalogue where it's described as being painted grey with a beige leather interior:

It certainly looks very different now...
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