£37,276
1929 Bentley 4½ Litre Tourer ‘Project
RM Sotheby's • Netherlands • 28 Feb 2024
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£37,276
1929 Bentley 4½ Litre Tourer ‘Project
Netherlands • 28 Feb 2024 • Lot 104
Vehicle Details
AI Listing Summary
This 1929 Bentley 4½-Litre is offered as a rolling chassis project, presenting a unique opportunity to build a custom vintage car. It includes valuable components but requires significant work, sold 'as is' with no warranties.
Condition
3
This Bentley is listed as a rolling chassis project, indicating that it's in a state requiring significant work to be roadworthy. The description mentions it's fitted with some valuable parts and a replacement body in the style of a Vanden Plas Le Mans Tourer. The absence of a complete, original body and the 'as is, where is' sale condition with no warranties suggest substantial reconditioning is necessary.
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MR3396
1929
Auction
RHD
Netherlands
£37,276
1929 Bentley 4½ Litre Tourer ‘Project
RM Sotheby's • Netherlands • 28 Feb 2024
Market Position:
Lowest Price
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Description
For many diehard Bentley enthusiasts, the 4½-Litre is one of the finest models produced by the marque—a hugely adaptable machine that scored overall victory at the 1928 24 Hours of Le Mans in race trim, while also becoming one of the most desirable and luxurious automobiles of its day and a concours favourite.
The Bentley 4½-Litre was essentially a development and refinement of the company’s first model, the 3 Litre.
Fitted with a torquey long-strike four-cylinder engine, the 4½-Litre was engineered to the highest standards with many of its major components being quite unstressed in standard form, with aluminium being used extensively to remove weight.
Appointed with beautiful castings throughout, the 4½-Litre is a wonderful mechanical object and a legendary car.
Chassis number MR 3396 was delivered in April 1929 wearing a Freestone & Webb Weyman Saloon body.
According to factory service records, the first owner was recorded as J.B.F.
Brown, whose UK address was crossed out and r...
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£37,276
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