£569.5k
1929 Bentley 4½-Litre Tourer by Cadogan
RM Sotheby's • US • 4 Mar 2023
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Highest 30% of Past Sales
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£569,546
1929 Bentley 4½-Litre Tourer by Cadogan
US • 4 Mar 2023
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AI Listing Summary
This 1929 Bentley 4½-Litre Tourer by Cadogan, chassis DS3570, is a unique survivor, retaining its original Cadogan fabric tourer body. It features a well-documented ownership history, in-period restyling by H.M. Bentley, and a marque specialist restoration, making it a Classic Car Club of America (CCCA) Full Classic.
Condition
7
While the car is well-preserved, it has undergone significant modifications and component replacements throughout its history, including a frame replacement, restyling, and updates to mechanical and electrical systems.
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DS3570
RHD
United States
SR 7702
1929
Auction
£569.5k
1929 Bentley 4½-Litre Tourer by Cadogan
RM Sotheby's • US • 4 Mar 2023
Market Position:
Highest 30% of Past Sales
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Description
Five of the distinguished and potent Bentley 4½-Litres were built with four-passenger fabric-paneled tourer bodies by Cadogan Motors (1928) Ltd., a design favored by touring-minded enthusiast owners for being slightly more spacious and comfortable in the rear compartment than the better-known Vanden Plas design.
The car offered here is the only survivor on its original 4½-Litre chassis.
Number DS3570, a desirable late-specification car with reinforced, stiffer frame, plate clutch, and updated self-wrapping front brakes, it was sent to Cadogan on 22 July 1929.
Following completion, it is believed to have been used for a time as a demonstrator by the prominent London Bentley dealers Gaffikin Wilkinson before being sold to its original owner, D.C.
Cowans Fairweather of Angus, Scotland.
He registered it in Aberdeen as SR 7702 in July 1930.
The car is believed to have next passed in 1932 to one G.
Ellis of London.
Like many of these highly sporting automobiles, it was involved in an...
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