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1930 Bentley 4½ Litre    
Original 1930 Numbers
Chassis No. PB3535
Engine No. PB3535
Registration No. RX 6040
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Chassis No. -
Engine No. -
Registration No. RX 6040
(Current owner / former owners, please come forward with updates. - February 2017)
 
 

"Owned the car for some years in 80s and 90s. Was registered HAA 16 from 1948 when it returned from South Africa. I obtained original registration RX 6040. Believe owned by S.A. Embassy and exported at outbreak of War. Rebuild by Townsend into Le Mans, the first one he did I believe. I still have Reg HAA 16."

  
     
     
  Source: Paul Reece
Posted: Feb 07, 2017		  
     
July 2010
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Le Mans Classic 2010

  
     
     
  Source: Retrospeed
Posted: Oct 20, 2010		  
     
2008
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Le Mans Classic, 2008

  
     
     
  Source: GT Dreams
Posted: Jul 02, 2014		  
     
2006
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Le Mans Classic, 2006

  
     
     
  Source: Magic Car Pics, posted by user 'Richard Dredge'
Posted: Jul 02, 2014		  
     
2006
In Belgium in 2006 / Owned by a BDC member
2005
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"Now here's a Vintage Bentley I can talk miles about as I purchased and restored this car in the late 1970s. My brief at that time was to build this very original Bentley to full LeMans spec. Some 2 years later I had finished the rebuild and now looking at the speedo she has done some 19000 miles.

I have seen her over these 25 years giving lots of pleasure to her past owners and always looking very smart. The paperwork shows some 5000 miles ago a full once over including a full engine rebuild.

This is a very, very good LeMans Bentley. I've bought it back four times in the last 28 years."

  
     
     
  Source: Stanley Mann Racing
Posted: Feb 28, 2005		  
     
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Chassis No. PB3535
Engine No. PB3535
Registration No. RX 6040
Date of Delivery: Feb 1930
Type of Body: Saloon
Coachbuilder: Vanden Plas
Type of Car: No info
   
First Owner: FURLONG Mrs D W
 
     
  More Info: According to original Vanden Plas Coachbuilder records, this car was originally fitted with Body No. 1607 with a 4-door British flexible Saloon as Olympia Show; Maroon fabric; 1/1930.

Michael Hay, in his book Bentley: The Vintage Years, 1997, states: "Vanden Plas body no. 1607. Utility then d/h coupe, reg HAA 16 - now Le Mans replica reg RX 6040." 		 
     
     
  Updated: Jul 05, 2007
Posted: Mar 01, 2007		  
     
 
 
 
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