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1931 Bentley 4½ Litre    
Original 1930 Numbers
Chassis No. FS3624
Engine No. FS3621
Registration No. GO 5629

  This car - updated
Chassis No. FS3624 + Rebuilt on ch. PB3545
Engine No. FS3621
Registration No. GO 5629

(Updated with Hay's 1997 information and from Adam Stacy-Marks. - April 2015)
 
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Spa Six Hours

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'ac|photo albums'
Posted: Jun 08, 2015
 
     
2010
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The Goodwood Revival Meeting, 2010

 
     
     
  Source: Bob Rippon
Posted: Sep 24, 2010
 
     
2009
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BDC Silverstone, 2009

 
     
     
  Source: Sports Car Digest
Posted: Aug 30, 2014
 
     
2008
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Spa, 2008

BDC, 2008
 
 
 

 

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr, photo by user 'fabvt' and Picasa, photo by user 'Bob'
Posted: Aug 30, 2014
 
     
2008
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At Cornbury.

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr, photo by user 'adamnsinger'
Posted: Feb 03, 2009
 
     
2007
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This car was owned by Adam Stacy-Marks from 1983 to 2010.

"Image with ref to GO 5629 Spa 2007. Adam Stacy-Marks owner and driver."

 
     
     
  Source: Adam Stacy-Marks (Former owner)
Posted: Aug 25, 2015
 
     
2007
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Spa 6 hours, 2007

 
     
     
  Source: Barchetta
Posted: Apr 16, 2015
 
     
1983 - 2010
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VSCC Mallory Park Race Meeting, 2000

"The Winter Marathon, 2001 — a 400 mile jaunt overnight from 16.00 hours start to 04.00 finish from 1500 feet to 8500 feet in the Dolomites."

Mille Miglia, 2003

Spa Francorchamps Pre-War Race, 2007
 
 
 

This car was owned by Adam Stacy-Marks from 1983 to 2010.

Apr 12, 2012
"The car was built for Mr Adcock to race after the War. He was believed to be a Spitfire Pilot by Fred Hofman. He was the legendary Pre-War Bentley tuner and of Hofman and Burton / Mountford fame. The car was also owned and raced by Barry Eastick then Harold (Spitfire) Pounds who added a Spitfire water pump on lowering the radiator, raced by daughter Dane Scott-Brown. It was briefly owned by Ed Hubbard and was passed via Stanley Mann to Adam Stacy-Marks who then owned and campaigned the car for the next 25-plus years."

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Apr 12, 2012
"Dear Sir,
With reference to GO 5629, I have submitted some images of Bentley 1930 4½ litre GO 5629 whilst in my ownership.

I purchased the car from Ed Hubbard via Stanley Mann in 1988 and gradually rebuilt and modified the car for campaigning in a number of different disciplines and events. When purchased, it had an alloy unpainted finish and was on a 9ft shortened chassis with a piece of chassis removed from behind the radiator and replaced ahead. This was unmodified and lengthened to 9' 9" enabling an overdrive to be fitted for long distance rallies. The "A" box was converted to "D" spec. The heavy crank car ran on white metal mains and shell big ends and was regularly rev’d to 4000 rpm. It was painted specifically to gain entry into the Mille Miglia.

In 1988 I raced the car at Oulton Park, Prescott Hill Climb, Silverstone, Cadwell Park
1989 Silverstone (2), Monthlery, Donington, Oldtimers Grand Prix, Nurburgring
1990 Silverstone (2)
1991 Silverstone (2) Wiscombe Park H.C, Monthlery, Cadwell Park (VSCC) Eiffel Classic Nurburgring
1992 Monthlery
1993 Wiscombe Park, Cornbury, Aubusson and LeMans Bentley Commemoration, Monthlery
1994 Monthlery, BDC Silverstone, Croix-en Ternois
1995 Silverstone (2), Millbrook
1996 Silverstone (2) Cornbury Sprint, Millbrook, Abingdon Sprint, Nurburgring
1997 Year off!!
1998 Nurburgring
1998 Monthlery
1999 Monthlery, Etretat Hill Climb, Zandvoort
2000 on-to the car being sold 2009 — the car was continually raced at events home and abroad to include Spa-Francorchamps, Chimay, Angouleme. It was also campaigned on the Winter Marathon 3 times and completed the Millie Miglia sucessfully. It entered generally some 3-5 events per annum.

From c. 1995 on the car was serviced, maintained and developed by Tony Fabian of Blackmore Engineering-Shoreham by Sea U.K

Hope this is of interest."

 
     
     
  Source: Adam Stacy-Marks (Former owner)
Posted: Apr 14, 2015
 
     
June 1999
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1930 Bentley 4.5 - Adam Stacy-Marks
Vintage Sports-Car Club race meeting at Donington, June 1999

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"1930 Bentley 4.5 litre GO 5629 in The Paddock Vintage Sports-Car Club Racing event owner/driver Adam Stacy-Marks." — Daena Scott Butler (Daughter of former owner)

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'dave smith'
Posted: Nov 29, 2018
 
     
September 1965
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Firle Hill Climb, 17th September 1965

"Daena Scott Brown, who beat her father, is seen nearing the top of the hill with the 1930 4½-litre" — From the article 'Bentley galore!, Firle Hill-Climb run by Bentley D. C.' by Michael Ware, in "AutoSport" magazine

 
     
     
  Source: Facebook, posted by user 'S Wilkinson'
Posted: Jul 08, 2013
 
     
1960s
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Photo 1. List of Award Tankards. Donated to Beaulie Motor Museum

Photo 2. Daena S Pounds, 1960s

Photo 3. Bentley Meeting 1960s, Kensington Gardens London. Concur d'elegance gathering.

Photo 4.
BARC Meeting Brunton Hill Climb
Autosport Magazine June 24 1966
Photo later used on Brunton Hill Climb Programme Cover.
Driver Daena Scott Brown

Photo 5.
Esso House
Bentley Meeting-Driving Tests 1962
October 1962 BDC Review
Driver Mr Harold Scott Pounds

 
     
     
  Source: Daena Scott Butler (Daughter of former owner)
Posted: Dec 03, 2018
 
     
1960s
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1. Illustration (artist Dexter H Brown) of GO 5629 competing at Wiscombe Park Hillclimb Devon, Somerset in the mid 1960s

2. GO 5629 driven by H Scott Pounds at Prescott Hill Climb. 1960s painting donated to the Beaulieu Motor Museum, 2015

3. GO 5629 driven by H Scott Pounds, Prescott Hill Start Line, 1960s

4. Photograph of Bentley 4.5 litre GO 5629 at, Firle Hill Climb 1960s driver, Daena Scott Brown

 
     
     
  Source: Daena Scott Butler (Daughter of former owner)
Posted: Nov 26, 2018
 
     
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The 4½ seen at Prescott in 1959, driven by Barry Eastick. (Robin D. Rew)

Go 5629 - Silverstone, 1988. (Ray Roberts Collection)
 
 

 

 
     
     
  Source: Extract from: Bentley Specials & Special Bentleys, by Ray Roberts, 1990 Made available by Daena Scott Butler (Daughter of former owner)
Posted: Nov 27, 2018
 
     
1950s
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"I have recently re-discovered an image given to me by Daena Scott-Brown (nee Pounds) of her Father driving GO 5629.

Harold Pounds raced GO 5629 at Antwerp Speed Trials in 1959 with a flying kilometre at 119.75 m.p.h.!"

 
     
     
  Source: Adam Stacy-Marks (Former owner)
Posted: Oct 30, 2018
 
     
1958 - 1969
 

"My father Harold Scott Pounds and myself then known as Mrs Daena Scott Brown competed in this Bentley from 1958 to 1969. The Bentley was rebuilt following a head on car crash with a Jaguar in 1959. Returning to the racing scene in 1960... The car was lightened, lowered and shortened in the rebuild... Noted amongst the car's many past successes was the record of 119.750 mph over the Flying kilometre at Antwerp in 1959."

 
     
     
  Source: Daena Scott Butler (Daughter of former owner)
Posted: Feb 17, 2012
 
     
1958 - 1969
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BDC Review, January 1963

"Come in Harold Pounds, 4½ litre.
One of the two Antwerp cars attending this year."
 
 

This car was owned by Harold Scott Pounds from 1958 to 1969.

"Photo of GO 5629 entering the Ballroom at the Dorchester Hotel London. Re the Bentley GO 5629 I find it interesting that the oval hatch and lid have been retained in the boot section of the car.

This is where I sat as a young child when traveling with my parents to the various race meetings.No safety belt just a piece of foam rubber for protection against the hard metal edge."

 
     
     
  Source: Daena Scott Butler (Daughter of former owner)
Posted: Nov 28, 2015
 
     
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"This car belonged to my grandfather Horace Ray Adcock after the 2nd World War and the modifications were done by my Father Neil Walter Adcock."

 
     
     
  Source: Patrick Adcock (grandson of former owner)
Posted: Nov 12, 2011
 
     
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B R Eastick at the wheel

 
     
     
  Source: Goodwood Remembered, by Peter Redman
Posted: Sep 24, 2010
 
     
EARLIEST RECORD OF HISTORICAL FACTS & INFORMATION
 
Chassis No. FS3624
Engine No. FS3621
Registration No. GO 5629
Date of Delivery: Jul 1930
Type of Body: Saloon
Coachbuilder: Freestone & Webb
Type of Car: No info
   
First Owner: CLIBRAN W R
 
     
  More Info: Michael Hay, in his book Bentley: The Vintage Years, 1997, states: "2 seater on 9'4" WB. Crashed 1959 rebuilt on ch. PB3545, 9'9½" WB."  
     
     
  Posted: Mar 01, 2007  
     
 
 
 
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