An 85-year-old car that once took part in a worldwide rally has sold at auction for £17,400.

A 1939 Derby Bentley has been put up for auction in Scunthorpe after sitting unused in storage for almost two decades.

The car completed the 2007 Beijing to Paris Centennial Rally, a five-week, 8,000-mile (12,900 km) re-enactment of the world’s first transcontinental rally in 1907.

Its price was estimated to be between £10,000 and £15,000.

The auction house said the sale received bids from all over the UK and Ireland, with the winning bid coming from someone in Hounslow, west London.

According to auctioneers, the Bentley was driven by owner Digby Leighton-Squires and his friend Neville Burrell during the rally.

This was one of 106 experienced, vintage and classic cars that completed the challenge and achieved a respectable 65th place.

Speaking ahead of the sale, Eddisons auctioneer Paul Cooper said: “There might even be a bit of Gobi desert sand in there.”

Bentley Derbys were made by Rolls-Royce after the luxury automaker caught up with its rival in 1931.

The first Derby rolled off the production line in the city of Derby in 1933 and the model was produced until 1939.

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