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1930 Bentley 6½ Litre    
Original Numbers
Chassis No. KR2682
Engine No. KR2679
Registration No. GU 409
  This car - updated
Chassis No. KR2682
Engine No. KR2679
Registration No. GU 409
(Updated with information from owner Matthew Kelly. - November 2019)
 
March 2020
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Found on P & A Wood website on March 9, 2020

Bentley 6½ litre Speed Six 1929 Le Mans Team Car style Tourer
£850,000

British Racing Green with Black hide upholstery. Rebuilt to Le Mans Team Car specification with short chassis. Excellent, well maintained condition.

This car is for sale as of March 9, 2020

  
     
     
  Source: P & A Wood
Posted: Mar 09, 2020		  
     
February 2020
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"Few photos of the engine and the interior taken when I started it up a few days ago."

  
     
     
  Source: Matthew Kelly (Owner)
Posted: Feb 17, 2020		  
     
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"My late father Patrick Kelly acquired the car in 2016. Previously she had been with an Irish collector who displayed her at the 2016 Hurlingham Club Classic Car evening in Fulham. She has been maintained by Graham Moss since 2016."

  
     
     
  Source: Matthew Kelly (Owner)
Posted: Dec 04, 2019
  
     
2016
 

This car was purchased by Patrick Kelly in 2016.

  
     
     
  Source: Matthew Kelly (Owner)
Posted: Nov 01, 2019		  
     
March 2008
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This photograph is from a Huckle Restorations advertisement.

Text in advt reads: SPEED SIX BENTLEY FOR SALE. This car has been fully restored to team car specification by ourselves 3 years ago, it has only done approx. 1,000 miles since its lull rebuild. During the rebuild we were privileged to obtain some rather nice original team car parts which were included in the rebuild.

 
     
     
  Source: "BDC Advertiser", March 2008
Posted: Sep 29, 2008
  
     
2006
In England in 2006 / Owned by a BDC member
2003
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Photograph was taken by Philippe de Smet in 2003 during the Bentley Drivers Club meeting at Silverstone.

  
     
     
  Source: Philippe de Smet
Posted: Oct 05, 2007		  
     
EARLIEST RECORD OF HISTORICAL FACTS & INFORMATION
 
Chassis No. KR2682
Engine No. KR2679
Registration No. GU 409
Date of Delivery: Sep 1929
Type of Body: Saloon (Weymann)
Coachbuilder: VICTOR BROOM
Type of Car: SP2
   
First Owner: W.F. Watson
 
     
  More Info: Michael Hay, in his book Bentley: The Vintage Years, 1997, states: "Car entered in the RAC Rally on March 1st". Being rebuilt."  
     
     
  Posted: Mar 01, 2007  
     
 
 
 
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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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