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1931 Bentley 8 Litre    
Original 1931 Numbers
Chassis No. YF5011
Engine No. YF5011
Registration No. GO 5065

  This car - updated
Chassis No.
Engine No.
Registration No. GO 5065

(Current owner / former owners, please come forward with further updates. - November 2018)
 
August 2019
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The 69th annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, August 2019.

 
     
     
  Source: Sports Car Digest
Posted: Oct 09, 2019
 
     
2010
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BDC Concours, 2010

 
     
     
  Source: Russell Browne
Posted: Jul 29, 2013
 
     
2010
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Villa d'Este, 2010

 
     
     
  Source: Car Design, Russia
Posted: Sep 17, 2010
 
     
2004
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Car in the photograph
bears Reg. No. GO 2131
on the number plate
   
 
 

Christie's, 2004 (note the different Reg No...)

 
     
     
  Source: Motor Snippets
Posted: Sep 17, 2010
 
     
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  Source: Cars of the Thirties and Forties by Michael Sedgwick, 1980
Posted: Apr 26, 2007
 
     
 

This previously 'unidentified' vintage Bentley has been identified as Chassis No. YF5011 by Olle Ljungström.

Car is shown in Michael Hay's book Bentley: The Vintage Years, 1986. As of 2005 it still had its original body and was at P&A Wood's workshop for restoration.

 
     
     
  Source: Olle Ljungström
Posted: Feb 15, 2008
 
 
1980
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1931 Bentley 8 Litre Gurney Nutting Tourer - YF5011
Movie made for TV, 1980

 
     
     
  Source: IMCDB
Posted: Nov 12, 2018
 
     
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Car in the photograph
bears Reg. No. JK 2
on the number plate
   
 
 

 

 
     
     
  Source: NCAD
Posted: May 22, 2013
 
     
EARLIEST RECORD OF HISTORICAL FACTS & INFORMATION
 
Chassis No. YF5011
Engine No. YF5011
Registration No. GO 5065
Date of Delivery: Apr 1931
Type of Body: Tourer
Coachbuilder: Gurney Nutting
Type of Car: 12
   
First Owner: HOLDER Sir H
 
     
  More Info: Michael Hay, in his book Bentley: The Vintage Years, 1997, states: "F/8012. Previously registered JK 2, now GO 2131"  
     
     
  Posted: Mar 01, 2007  
     
 
 
 
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Sep 30, 2020 - Info and photograph received from Simon Hunt for Chassis No. RL3439
Sep 30, 2020 - Info and photographs received from Dick Clay for Chassis No. 147
Sep 29, 2020 - Info and photographs received from Ernst Jan Krudop for his Chassis No. AX1651
Sep 28, 2020 - Info and photographs received from Lars Hedborg for his Chassis No. KL3590
Sep 25, 2020 - Info and photograph added for Registration No. XV 3207
Sep 24, 2020 - Info and photograph added for Registration No. YM 7165
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