£101.2k
Property of a deceased's estate 1927 Bentley 3-Litre Sports Project
Bonhams • UK • 14 Apr 2024
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Lowest 10% of Past Sales
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£101,200
Property of a deceased's estate 1927 Bentley 3-Litre Sports Project
UK • 14 Apr 2024
Vehicle Details
AI Listing Summary
This 1927 Bentley 3-Litre Sports is a project car with matching chassis and engine numbers. Family-owned since 1957, it has been garaged for over 50 years and is presented in 'barn find' condition, requiring complete restoration. It retains its original coupé coachwork by Offord.
Condition
2
The car is described as a 'barn find' offered for restoration, indicating it has been garaged unused for over 50 years and is in need of sympathetic restoration. The presence of old documentation (logbooks, MoT certificates from the 1960s) supports this assessment.
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Manual
YF 2654
1927
Auction
TN1566
RHD
United Kingdom
£101.2k
Property of a deceased's estate 1927 Bentley 3-Litre Sports Project
Bonhams • UK • 14 Apr 2024
Market Position:
Lowest 10% of Past Sales
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Description
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Originally an Offord-bodied coupé • Matching chassis and engine • Family owned since March 1957 • Garaged unused for some 50-plus years • 'Barn find' offered for restoration With characteristic humility 'W O' was constantly amazed by the enthusiasm of later generations for the products of Bentley Motors Limited, and it is testimony to the soundness of his engineering design skills that so many of his products have survived.
From the humblest of beginnings in a mews garage off Baker Street, London in 1919 the Bentley rapidly achieved fame as an exciting fast touring car, well able to compete with the best of European and American sports cars in the tough world of motor sport in the 1920s.
Bentley's domination at Le Mans in 1924, 1927, 1928, 1929 and 1930 is legendary, and one can only admire the Herculean efforts of such giants as Woolf Barnato, Jack Dunfee, Tim Birkin and Sammy Davis, consistently wrestling the British Racing Green sports cars to victory.
W O Bentley proudly unve...
Price Analysis vs Other 3 Litres
£101,200
Lowest Price (Since 2020)
£103,500
Median Price (Since 2020)
£126,500
Highest Price (Since 2020)
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MOT Information
Exempt / No Records
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Bonhams
101 New Bond Street, London, Greater London, W1S 1SR, England
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