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1938 Bentley 4 1/4 Litre 'Disappearing Hood' Sports Tourer
Bonhams Cars Online • UK • 4 Jun 2025
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1938 Bentley 4 1/4 Litre 'Disappearing Hood' Sports Tourer
UK • 4 Jun 2025
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AI Listing Summary
This 1938 Bentley 4 1/4 Litre 'Disappearing Hood' Sports Tourer is a well-known and historically significant car with Hooper coachwork. It requires recommissioning and restoration, but its originality and provenance make it a worthwhile project.
Condition
6
The car is described as being in original condition but in need of restoration/reconditioning. There are scuffs, scratches and stone chips on the paintwork, and the interior is showing its age with cracks and splits in the leather. The car has not been used since acquisition and will require recommissioning before returning to the road.
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28,670 miles
B190LS
RHD
United Kingdom
Manual
EXP 1
1938
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1938 Bentley 4 1/4 Litre 'Disappearing Hood' Sports Tourer
Bonhams Cars Online • UK • 4 Jun 2025
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Description
A handsome 'Derby' Bentley with unique coachwork, chassis number 'B190LS' was delivered new in April 1938 to Sir John Jarvis, Conservative Member of Parliament for Guildford in Surrey, who is best known for his philanthropic and industrial efforts to assist the Tyneside town of Jarrow during the economic depression years of the 1930s.
Originally registered 'EXP 1', the Bentley was bodied by Hooper & Co, London-based carriage makers to Queen Victoria and King Edward VII and arguably the finest of all British coachbuilders.
Described in factory records as a 'special sports tourer', it features wind-up windows and a fully retractable convertible hood which, when erected, offers 'all-weather' protection.
A Bosch wireless set also formed part of the original specification.
Sir John Jarvis died late in 1950 and the following January the Bentley was purchased by Harold Webb of Rickmansworth, who kept the car until 1963 when it was sold to the Duchesne family of Wimborne, Dorset.
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£17,688
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Median Price (Since 2020)
£578,299
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MOT Information
Expired
Expired on 4th Nov 2011
Latest MOT mileage:
28,647 miles
MOT History
Passed
On 5th Nov 2010, 28,647 miles
There was 1 defect noted.
Advisory:
- Exhaust has a minor leak of exhaust gases (7.1.2)
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