Tag: WO Bentley

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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Barnfind Bentley R Type

I saw a advert for this car on 18th December 2021, I emailed the vendor and agreed a visit was in order to inspect the vehicle and find out a little more info, on Friday 24th December I made my way over to Birmingham (Stirchley) to view her, Andy the late owners grandson met me…
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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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Bentley Mk6 Barnfind Rolls-Royce 20/25 tourer

This is a bit of a long story but bear with me, I hope I don’t bore you to death. on Tuesday 26th October I was called by friend and fellow BDC member Rob Warrington, he called to see if Magda and I were going to the Midland region Birthday lunch at the Grand hotel…
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Bentley S11 Continental

01/04/222 George and I got the straps and equipment we needed for loading up the Bentley S2, we also hooked up the Brian James trailer to the Mercedes’ sprinter truck and set off for Yeovil. on arrival at Piper Trimmers in Goodwood lane we were met by Larry Piper, offered coffee as we waited for…
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Fathers Day good deed Vintage Bentley chauffeur

This Father’s Day 20/06/21 I responded to a request on the Bentley Drivers Club midland region Facebook page for someone to take this Gentleman (Anthony Prosser) for a drive in his wonderful 4-1/2 litre Bentley that he purchased in 1961. Anthony has MS and can no longer drive his Beautiful girl, all he wanted was…
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Bentley 4 litre chassis VF 4021 1931 VDP tourer garage find

whilst scanning the Bentley Drivers Club Advertiser I came across this amazing advert. This car was purchased by the vendors grandfather in the 60’s and used regularly in their home town of Oakville Ontario. at some stage she developed an overheating issue so was pulled into the garage and stripped for diagnosis, which turned out…
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