A Bentley Turbo R Emperor Non-Division Limousine by Hooper & Co.

This is a rare one. I don't think this car has ever been described before.

A Bentley Turbo R Emperor Non-Division Limousine by Hooper & Co.

I think that name sums up this car quite well.

Calling it just a Bentley Hooper Emperor or Bentley Emperor by Hooper is not descriptive enough, as it does not indicate which Bentley it is based on.

Having a limousine with no division is unusual, and is also generally noted in the description. It's not an Emperor State Limousine by Hooper, as it does not have the extra glass panel in the rear door like the State limousines do.

So I think I'm on track calling it a Bentley Turbo R Emperor Non-Division Limousine by Hooper & Co.

It has a Sony Trinitron 5" colour TV and VCR to the rear of the front centre console, an additional VCR on the rear parcel shelf.

It features a drinks cabinet with 4 cut crystal glasses to rear passenger seat, a drinks cabinet with 2 cut crystal bottles and 1 silver shaker to rear drivers seat and picnic tables above the drinks cabinets.

The picnic tables and drinks cabinet are framed together, faced in book-matched burr walnut with inlay.

The doors have burr walnut cards and caps with inlay, as well as burr walnut magazine storage.

What I have not seen before is that the front door card wood panels have been perforated in the shape of the Bentley B logo, presumable to house additional speakers to the upper section of the doors.

The dashboard interesting does not have inlay, where Hooper has not touched the Crewe install wood. 

The front centre console is Turbo R and the instrumentation is standard from a post 1990 30000 series Bentley.

There is a two bottle refrigerator to the rear centre console, with walnut cup holders to the underside of the fold down cover.

Under the seat section of the rear centre console houses a vanity cabinet, containing two perfume dispensers, a brush, vanity mirror and mostly likely a grooming set in a leather fold out container.

Tread plates by Hooper & Co are also present. 

As expected, the coachwork consists of a Hooper reduced rear window and has an extension by 550mm and a raised roof by 60mm forming the Touring Limousine body. 

The wheels are alloy Turbo R standard specification, the bumper bars have had the usual metal surfaced painted in black, and the grille vanes have also been painted black. 

For the Bentley Spotters - yes, that is the front of a Bentley Java facing the Bentley Turbo R Emperor Non-Division Limousine by Hooper & Co.

Yes, just be amazed at the amount of SZ Bentley and Rolls-Royce cars located in Garage 1, Ground Floor. There are 3 lanes of cars to the centre, mostly SZ limousines by Hooper, Jankel and MPW, and to the sides of the centre lanes there are two cars parked in tandem. There is also Floor 2 above this which houses many, many coachbuilt Bentley cars. Check out this site for more about them.

The numberplate is DPD where DPD stands for "Di-Pertuan Digadong", which is an abbreviation of the Malay title "Duli Yang Teramat Mulia Paduka Seri Pengiran Di-Gadong Sahibul Mal" loosely translating to 'His Royal Highness, Prince, born of the First Clan, Principal Minister of the State under the Sultan' - a title given by His Majesty the Sultan of Brunei to his brother, HRH Prince Jefri. In short "DPD = Jefri's car".

I like to provide the VIN numbers for these cars, however as this car is by an external coachbuilder, the VIN number decodes to a standard model, and I'm unaware if all the Hooper records are available. 

I have filtered down the options for this car being one of the 40 cars below. 

That is post 1990 car, of either Turbo R or RL as Hooper is known to have used both the Silver Spirit and Silver Spur for Emperor Limousines, where the car has a DPD numberplate.