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1930 Bentley 6½ Litre    
Original 1930 Numbers
Chassis No. LR2782
Engine No. LR2788
Registration No. GJ 6686

  This car - updated
Chassis No. LR2782
Engine No. LR2788
Registration No. GJ 6686

(Updated with information from Lawrence Southward, May 2016.)
 
May 2016
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The following information was received from Lawrence Southward:

"Chassis No: LR2782
Engine No: LR2788
Registration No. GJ 6686

Car back together and running smoothly after engine and gearbox freshen up after 80,000 miles and 50 years, ready for another 50 years."

 
     
     
  Source: Lawrence Southward (Owner)
Posted: May 13, 2016
 
     
2014
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Some photos from the recondition of the engine LR2788 in chassis LR2782 received from car owner Lawrence Southward.

July 13, 2014

"Engine pulled down the all the bits. Found that the wear after 90,000 miles to be minimal still using the old style oil filter as well. All the gears were okay in the gearbox. A few teeth missing on the flywheel ring gear though so that is being replaced. Getting new valves and springs.

Camshaft was okay and the crank is having light polish and cylinders are having a hone but but is still as per it left Brian Morgans workshop all those years ago with no major grinding required. Hasn't been any surprises, apart from how little is required to be done to the engine and gearbox after this long.

A bit of lime scale in the water jacket area that has been cleaned out but on the whole, there was no need to do any major work on the car. The crank had a light polish, the cam is fine and the bores were still pretty good given 50 years since it left Brian Morgan's workshop and approx. 90,000 miles since then.(approx. as the speedo didn't work for a few years!!)

The engine has been cleaned and has been painted the same black colour that Brian Morgan did as it did look smart.

Car now has seen most of the running gear seen to (bearings and brakes etc...) and the body has been left as there was nothing to do there. It will be back on the road by the end of the year and will be ready for another 50 years of 'Vintage Bentleying'."

 
     
     
  Source: Lawrence Southward (Owner)
Posted: Jul 22, 2014
 
     
October 2013
 

"Engine out for a freshen up and check. Nothing wrong with it, just had the rest of the car checked and since the engine hadn't been looked at since Brian Morgan restored it, we thought we might as well."

 
     
     
  Source: Lawrence Southward (Owner)
Posted: Oct 08, 2013
 
     
June 2013
 

"Car now in Australia, still with same family that has owned it for the last 30 years. Was loaned to the car museum as we had run out of space at home. Currently undergoing some full running gear maintenance except engine as that is still running perfectly. Car pretty much exactly the same as when it left the pages of Brian Morgans book detailing its restoration. Has 4½ chassis ST3002 reg YT1345 as a stable mate in Australia."

 
     
     
  Source: Lawrence Southward (Owner)
Posted: Jun 27, 2013
 
     
2009
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  The car at Southward Museum, New Zealand

(Car in the photograph bears Reg. No. TL on the number plate.)
 
     
     
  Source: YouTube, posted by user 'pitcairn62'
Posted: May 16, 2013
 
     
 

'Unknown' vintage Bentley has been identified as Chassis no. LR2782 by Olle Ljungström.

"The famous Speed Six that was restored by Brian Morgan 1959-63, the restoration being described in a series of articles in the "BDC Review" beteween september 1959 and July 1963, later published as a booklet by the Club and still available from the Club Shop. Obviously photographed simultaneously as YX5102, photos published on the site on the same day - 16/5 2013. Sad to see cars like these stored in a museum." — Olle Ljungström, May 22, 2013

 
 
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  Booklet covering the restoration of this car — 'Restoring Speed Six GJ 6686' by Brian Morgan.  
     
     
  Source: Olle Ljungström
Posted: May 22, 2013
 
     
2003
In New Zealand in 2003 / Owned by a BDC member
2000
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2000 Hamilton, New Zealand

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'spooky21'
Posted: Jun 01, 2013
 
     
1983
 

This car was purchased by Lawrence Southward in 1983.

 
     
     
  Source: Lawrence Southward (Owner)
Posted: Jun 27, 2013
 
     
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That Looks like W.O. Bentley at the wheel.

 
     
     
  Source: Bonhams
Posted: Sep 07, 2009
 
     
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W. O. Bentley is the passenger in this Speed Six Tourer by Vanden Plas.

 
     
     
  Source: Upper Crust, John Bolster, 1976
Posted: Oct 08, 2007
 
     
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Chassis No. LR2782
Engine No. LR2788
Registration No. GJ 6686
Date of Delivery: Jul 1930
Type of Body: D/H Coupe
Coachbuilder: LANCEFIELD
Type of Car: SP3
   
First Owner: HULTON Miss F
 
     
  More Info: Michael Hay, in his book Bentley: The Vintage Years, 1997, states: "Original body scrapped 1958. Now Vanden Plas 4 seater. On loan to Stratford Motor Museum. Now in New Zealand."  
     
     
  Posted: Mar 01, 2007  
     
 
 
 
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