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Talbot of England 14/45 1928 saloon Barnfind

4D708242-2C1F-4F5E-9246-9D627370BDB8 I have known about this gentleman and his collection of cars for maybe 30 years, Stuart is 86 years young and has finally come to the realisation that time has caught up with him and he’s not going to finish some of his projects. This one which has had some extensive engine and gearbox…
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Lanchester 1932 tourer 30 hp straight eight

  This wonderful automobile belongs to our friend / Client Roger. Roger lives in the most amazing property you have ever stepped foot in, built in the 1500’s it is relatively untouched even down to its very own colony of bats, but not just any colony, the largest in Europe, Rogers library/study has a permanently…
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Sunbeam sees daylight for the first time in 20 years.

X A56DF928-77FE-4DB9-A035-0EA55003979 update Tuesday 05 December 2023. I was called by someone from Staffordshire Police, who asked my name? I said “ you called me” he said he got my number off this website (chose not to read any of the contents or about me where he would have found my name and information) he…
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Thornycroft motor home 1940 Barn find Barnfind

  This weekend 22-24/04/2022 we, my partner my son and I went to Looe in Cornwall to visit my mother, it was the anniversary of my late brothers passing in 2014. we always celebrate Luke’s life at this time with mom. whilst there we visited the two brothers that owned this Thornycroft motor home three…
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Baby Bentley Bentley World child’s car

the gentleman in the picture on the left is the legend Peter Butler, Peter is stood with his good friend Peter Wilson, they are looking at Peter Butlers race car that we had earlier that evening removed the body from. This was what we did on Thursday evenings at Peters house in Warwickshire. if you…
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Baby Bentley pedal car display thing of beauty

This absolutely fantastic little Bentley was built by Bentley drivers club member Chris Leyshon – James I met Chris inadvertently after posting about my thoughts of the Bentley Drivers club forum on the Bentley Drivers club forum. I thought the forum needed to be updated and modernised, it is slow and difficult to navigate, hard…
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Rolls-Royce 20/25 Barnfind Harold Wilson 2009

On 14th May 2012 was contacted by Harold Wilson in Wales (not that Harold Wilson) but a lovely gentleman with a collection of vintage and classic cars scattered everywhere. he contacted me through an advert where I was looking for vintage Bentley parts. after a long chat on the phone about his collection it was…
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