Found on Vintage & Prestige website on November 12, 2019

1924 Bentley 3/5 litre Le Mans Style
Chassis number: 773
Engine Number: 775
Registration number: XX 1487
Price: £550,000

An early 3 litre Bentley with original chassis, axles gear box & engine. This car started life as a Gurney Nutting tourer. Purchased a couple of years ago in slightly dilapidated condition, The car has had a full nut & bolt rebuild including construction of a new Le Mans style body complete with Large quick fill fuel tank, engine turned dash board, 4.5 litre radiator shell & the usual other Lemans accoutrements.

The engine has been completely rebuilt including a long throw phoenix crank, new block & blanking plate bringing the capacity up to 5 litres. The engine is running with the fuel fed via 2 petrol pumps. The original Steering box, number 448 is also still fitted. The numbers on the front dumb iron & chassis cross member are clearly visible. The car is running as when new on a pair of magnetos.

This car, needless to say is a very rapid machine & is still covering its running in miles. It is absolutley fresh & new with everything having been done. The body is brand new green Rexine style leather cloth fabric. To the interior is new traditional green hide along with brand new matching green carpets. The windshield folds flat allowing the occupants to peer from behind a pair or aero style racing screens for the authentic "bugs in the teeth look". A blower style wide bore exhaust system has been fabricated ending in a wide fishtail.

The car is due up to our showrooms in the next few weeks after completing some family duties at the present owners manor house where we took the photographs.

This car is for sale as of November 12, 2019

Leaving Bentley Motors factory in 1924 and still looking very much as she did, but then its history is much more interesting than that.

By 1928 she was on her way to Malaya but returned to England in 1931.

Unfortunately, at around this time her expensive Gurney Nutting body had been removed in favour of a fabric saloon body.

In 1982, a hero; C B Gill comes along and decides to give the old girl a professional rebuild of biblical proportions and sends her to R.C. Moss (one of the very top vintage Bentley restorers) for a full top to bottom restoration.

Specification to be a full mechanical and for Dick to reconstruct exactly the Gurney Nutting coachwork so as to make her as the day she left the works in 1924.

This work took all of 4 years but this dedication to the mark has paid dividends because she still goes and looks fresh as ever a full concours job.

Photograph was taken at Blenheim Palace in 1994 during Bentley Drivers Club Concours.